At the end of last year the locked on championship took place, presented by lock poker and wpt magazine. The top two prizes were live tournament buyins, which were paid out, but there were also a number of prizes consisting of coaching from lock pros. Nothing has been said about these prizes and attempts to contact lock poker about them have been ignored.

Would any lock reps like to comment? If the lock pros have better things to do with their time then I'm sure we would all be happy with the cash equivalent (coaching was valued at $850 ph in the promotion).

I've forwarded on to the appropriate people to follow up on. I'll let you know what I hear.

-Rizen

Cool. Thanks for looking into it.

Have you received or heard anything yet?

Rather predictably, no. Rizen/Shane: any chance of an update?

Have a little patience. These things take time. My understanding is that they are all working really hard.

LOL?

Seriously. What takes them so long? Same goes for the random picked monthly lotto winners? Sure they have other problems but both of these issues shouldnt take longer then 5 minutes for a decision!

Just so you have some numbers i received 450/h for the Girah coachings promo as they didnt want to pay me more. As after the scandal he didnt want to coach me... :-)

Gl

Interesting. Link to promotion page below where lock pro coaching is valued at $850ph.

http://lockpoker.eu/locked-on/

Still waiting for a response a month later.

I know. I informed them about that too.

I remember bugging rizen on a nearly daily basis for eeven more than a month, and was finally happy when i received something.

PM'd Rizen and Shane a week ago for an update and was ignored again.

Emailed Shane and Rizen a week ago for an update and was ignored again.

Odds of Lock ever making good on this?

Shane is a very hard worker and when he doesn't respond to your pm or email you know it is for a very good reason. You'll have to take a backseat. You're just not important enough to respond to apparently.

Seriously, my strategy might be to email more often. I have no idea if that will work. Bumping threads doesn't seem to do much as evidenced by the lock lotto thing but you can keep doing that with this situation too.

But I don't know much about the online gaming industry. Perhaps there is a higher and more important reason involved for why Shane does not response to you.

Microbob - out of interest what is your affiliation to Lock poker? You seem to defend them a lot.

I think that the "very good reason" that Shane does not respond to PMs or emails is that Lock do not want to give out the prizes. I'm not very important - I'm just one customer of lock and don't rake much there. Loss of my business is worth less to them than the $2.5K prize that they owe me. Hence the problem.

The promotion finished at the end of last year so it has been about 9 months, which I have "taken a backseat" for a large part of. Bumping this thread keeps the forum aware of the situation and I guess I have to hope that Lock see the value in not having a load of threads from unhappy players.