For reference: "Sparky Collins" and his "article" about Neteller payouts on Lock

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Since other sites want to use the reports I compile as the be all end all barometer for a skin's ability to pay their players, why don't we make them as complete as possible?

If you are not listed on the above sheet, and have a pending cashout with Lock Poker over two months long (any payout method - US and ROW players), and you'd like to be added, please PM me with your original date of request, payout method (check, WU, Skrill, Neteller, Ecocard, etc.), and $$ amount of your request.

On a personal note, I'd like to say that I appreciate all of the comments I've received from this and the vig report in general - both positive and negative. I didn't set out to do this for personal gain, but I have earned a couple opportunities because of the work I've done with the vig report, and I'm very appreciative of that. I know we sort of have these auras about us when we're online - some who post often sometimes earn a little more respect (not always...lol). But I'm just a guy who started doing it because I traded and thought it would be useful, and this is pretty much all I do right now real life wise. I play poker (poorly, but I play a little here and there), and I work 12-14 hours a day cataloging information. I hope eventually this will be a career. That's not too bad for a guy who was pushing shopping carts 2.5 months ago at Wally World.

I honestly and genuinely hope that including this separate Lock cashout report will being continued awareness to each of your situations. My aim with this was only to try to get clear information, as best it could be presented, so that maybe, it might help move things along a bit. I actually get up every day and hope to come to the various payout threads here in the Lock forum and see a lot of now-familiar names getting what they're owed so I can cross them off the list. That doesn't seem to be happening all that frequently, but I hold out hope.

So, anyway...I didn't intend this to be a mush post...lol. I honestly had no clue how I'd write this after reading Costigan's "article". But I know there are more here on 2+2 than the already 65 players listed who are waiting, and honestly - I can't think of a better response then to get that list above as accurate as possible. That's how I'd like to handle this - by presenting the facts as they are as best we can. So, if you wish, PM me as instructed above and I'll get to work updating this list.

Thanks guys. And Chris, if you're reading...my name is Thomas. I haven't seen my name rearranged in a humorous attempt since I was about 10 or so, so thanks for the nostalgic trip down memory lane.

Thanks for helping the community, we really appreciate all the time you dedicate to this issue. They take a grain of salt and portray it to be as if Lock has climbed a mountain getting over the hump, there are still to many waiting.

the dublin-based rep known as "Shamus"

LOL can't even get names right nevermind facts

Another G911 Masterpiece of digital junk wtg!

As for you Nutz.. you doing a great job for a trolly pusher

Is there any particular reason a player such as pokerbratwurst has had to wait nearly 200 days for a $500 cash out? Surely they could fit that in one of the "batches".

I love how he used your reference, then grossly 'misinterpreted/misquoted' the information.

+1 to you IHasTehNutz - you are well respected here, and the poor attempt at mocking you in the 911 article actually offends me.

Pulled the image of the sheet - originally wanted to have the names present so that hopefully it would be easier for someone (cough...Shane...cough cough...lol) to maybe speed up the process. But, having this kind of detailed information tied to usernames and archived here on the forum is probably not a good idea...so I'll go back to blacking out the names.

Here it is, and this is updated through new players added this AM:

I swear I read an article a few weeks ago that said Lock has "caught" up on its backlogged withdrawals because of their processing issues. This has to be the same author right? Both stories were missing major components to journalism 101: FACTS. The name shot on your handle is just hilarious. I hope Sparky's mom paid the excel bill so he can get on the internet and write some more tomorrow. I'd be bitter too if the family named me Sparky and the dog Frank.

LOL Sparky made it to Florida from Cuba via an innertube during the 1980's in shark infested waters. He's a true bad ass and has been a part of the G911 family for many years, regularly attending affiliate and gaming conferences, beloved by many.

Obviously he meant no harm by this article. Keep in mind English is his second language and he was simply filling in for one of our other reporters, Nagesh Rath.

We're an equal opportunity employer.

chris you're a ****ing low-life mate.

You guys got me to login again and to post and not just passively read and laugh all my way, because you had enough time and all seemed to have missed the funniest part from the 'fact-finding Cuban journalist shark-battling Sparky' (no way I could close the quotes before his first name):

IHasToNut? Really....like sitting on the toilet southpark-style a'la Eric?
'eh, screw you guys I have to take a big nut to the toilet?'

Sorry, IHasTehNutz, no way I would imply this personally to you or play with your name, just another fact, besides some main points, Sparky could not dig out, or get to the bone of the matter if you get my play with words.

But hey, according to him, your are a statistician, a sexy one seemingly in his eyes, as he is stating something having to do with prejaculation.

Source:
Documented cases of Neteller payments over 2 months are no longer on record as of July 12, a tracking statistician using the handle of “IHasToNut” communicated via his dedicated posting forum at TwoPlusTwo.

I thought I was reading an article from theonion.com

Well done 911. We've been punked again

Ok, after re-reading this thread with some edited posts since following it, I see I was not the first to 'discover' another of their false facts, sorry for claiming some of you missed it, I apologize, especially to Thomas.
Great job you have done, keep it up!

More reading in advance could have saved me from posting!

I couldn't care less if your "journalist" comes from Mars, Cuba or Senegal. The article is ridiculous and I'm pretty sure that G911 has not asked for written permission to use his graph or a screenshot of one of his graphs for this piece of Junk.

Just because Nutz shares his reports here on the forum does not make them GNU but who cares. You as site operator certainly don't.

Nutz, I would demand G911 to take this down since the IP right for the shown reports (or image take of the same) belongs to you and the article clearly defames you.

They need to fire the editor at 911, or hire one..

Agree with hammerman, they use your reference without your permission and defame you at the same time?? Chris just take it down..

@FT37

Chris saying... ... clearly shows that the "gambling authority" G911 doesn't even have a real editor. Cause if they did an article written by the "author" and worded like the one in question would have never made it past any responsible acting editor nor would it get published without a propper revision. This is why you have user rights setup for your contributors, authors, editors, admins etc. So each of them has the permissions they need but an author would never have publishing rights.

But obviously this is not the case at Gambling911.com.

I like how he defended his name and not the actual article, oh well, priorities I guess. Maybe we could shove a match up Sparky's ass and see if he turns into a fountain. Then he could be enjoyed AND loved by all. Sorry if some is lost in translation, I'm a redkneck and English isn't my first language.

G911 readers are not interested in conjecture or agendas. They are interested in facts and we provide these facts through fair and balanced reporting.

Fact #1 - Lock Poker payouts for some have been excessively delayed.
Fact #2 - Lock Poker is still in business and still paying people.
Fact #3 - Some people will continue to play with Lock Poker despite these slow payouts as long as they remain in business.
Fact #4 - Some people will choose not to play with Lock Poker until such payout issues are resolved.

Facts 1 and 2 are clearly addressed in the article linked here authored by Sparky Collins.

It is up to our readers to decide whether they wish to pursue doing business with Lock Poker or not based on either of these two facts. We do not hide this information from our readers. G911 is not Fluff Magazine with their happy take on everything poker nor will we ever publish a "Sky is Falling" article when there are no facts to support such a notion.

Hope this adds clarity.

Kinda. Ill agree on all these facts.

I think the issue is the happy tone of the articles on your site. They pop off as all gleeful and great making it seem as if Lock has their act together and has picked up the momentum where there is absolutely ZERO suggesting that is the case.

Lock, including their pros who I am friends with several, have been nothing but great to me (with the exception of getting paid timely)... but not paying people timely including their own pros trumps everything.

I hope they turn it around. Maybe they will. It is indeed possible.

Feel free to say they are solvent. Feel free to say they are a good business. Feel free to say they are good people. However don't make it appear like payouts have improved. They continue to trickle though some are paid. This and recent articles about Lock payouts on your site are misleading. That is how I see it.

Any chance you will be doing a hard hitting interview with Jen Larson to followup on the situation?

Facts. Because you say so? Facts require proof, and that pesky little thing called evidence, to back them up.

Fact. Chris Costigan makes money based on an affiliation with Lock Poker. What else needs to be said.

Fact. Chris Costigan and others from 911gambling were in France for a company party at the request of Lock CEO Jennifer Larsen, with her even being quoted as saying that Costigan and the bunch were "the loudest, most boisterous, most drunk in attendance." Again - zero credibility and proof of at least a lack of desire to hold Lock accountable for anything.

Fact. The majority of players aren't even talking about Lock being insolvent, yet you and "Shamus O'Shanessey" continue to refute this as if it's actually necessary. This goes to the further devaluing of public opinion on Lock in your eyes, and is simply a tactic used by people who can't provide actual data, logic, or that pesky little F-word: facts.

Fact. You referenced my cashout report - but failed to look back even to the previous day's report to notice that Neteller, on the list I compiled, never had more than 3 cashouts pending at it's height. But you made it seem like it was a feat of amazement with this line: "Documented cases of Neteller payments over 2 months are no longer on record as of July 12, a tracking statistician using the handle of “IHasToNut” communicated via his dedicated posting forum at TwoPlusTwo." That is lazy at best, and fatally negligent at worst. If any person with half a brain saw what you actually were trying to do, they'd never read another article on your site again. (And yes Chris, that last line was an opinion.)

Fact, finale. If you were interested in facts, you would, right now, end your affiliation with Lock Poker. I'd like to see how your articles played when there was no financial stake involved.

I wasn't going to post a direct response, but you're a disgrace to the profession. We all see through you - and no one here (the largest poker forum in the world, mind you), save perhaps for Shane, believes anything you say.

G911 cannot be considered journalism.

They are simply a shill rag -- an affiliate site with amateur blog posts masquerading as legitimate news media. They are an advertising arm of Lock, bought and paid for, with no qualms about being grossly dishonest while shilling.

LOL @ FACTS and BALANCED REPORTING

Fact #1 The overall payout processing time has not decreased since G911's interview with Lock Poker CEO Jennifer Larson

Fact #2 The last article your website shows when entering "Lock Poker" in search is from October 23rd 2011. The majority of your readers or any random person coming to your "gambling authority" site in good faith looking for information about Lock wont find anything. (Yes I know there is such thing as google.)



Fact #3 The majority of your Lock articles are as biased as they can be and give a wrong picture of the overall situation.

Fact #4 Still violates Nutz's IP on his reports and the lack of editorial on your articles before those are published.

Their decision would be based on wrong information see my facts.