Petition to Remove FAIR PLAY - Page 3 - Two Plus Two

Hey. Thread grunching here, but I was asked to respond to this so i'm just posting things from my perspective.

After reading the report on professionalpoker.com, I spoke to a representative from a skin on the Revolution network seeking confirmation. They told us that they had been informed by the network that FPT was over. The specific words were, "There is no more player categorization. All player tiers are removed."

Given these two separate sources, I considered it a reliable confirmation and wrote the story. We published in the morning.

Later that day, I spoke to pokerfuse co-editor Mike who said he'd spoken to Shane, after we published the article, and shane had stated that the article was wrong, and the network had told shane that FPT was largely scaled back, but not completely removed.

At this point it was already 12 hours since the article had gone up and it was way off the top of the homepage, I decided at that stage that the article did not warrant correction, because none of the sources on either side were directly from the network itself, and only one second-hand source is saying FPT is not completely ended, rather just "largely scaled back." I had planned to research it further and either run a subsequent article if the situation had changed, but haven't yet had the opportunity.

Thats pretty much it. Obviously I don't think is "running a false story" at all. I'm not up to speed on anything that's happened in the last 36 hours.

edit: fwiw, no on at "the network" ever speaks directly to anyone, to my knowledge, only via skins, and even then often skins are in the dark. So stuff is always second-hand knowledge. I would not be surprised if the network had said different things to different poker rooms.

I appreciate your explanation of that article. I know this is off topic, but do you know if the same people who own and operate the network are the same people that own and operate Lock?

06-29-2013 , 03:33 AM

#52

umakenocentsbro

grinder

Join Date: Sep 2012 Posts: 680

has HUSNG segregation been removed? or is it still completely segregated?

06-29-2013 , 08:46 AM

#53

JimAfternoon

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Mar 2011 Posts: 6,903

Thanks for clarifying that, Hood.

06-29-2013 , 10:26 AM

#54

SGT RJ

Twitching

Join Date: Feb 2009 Posts: 49,109

Quote:

Originally Posted by imjustshane

No network management continue to not allow me to post any details or explanation of how the system currently works.

Considering how much players are able to understand by sharing screenshots and logging into different clients this is kind of crazy but its their decision and I have to abide by it.

Its also important to mention that I dont even know how it fully works, I can obviously ask them about how our players are currently affected but its clear that Fair Play isnt applied evenly across all rooms and I cant ask how other rooms are affected.

Then Lock has only themselves to blame when incorrect articles/rumors gets started.

I revisit my drunken chickens comment. Lock goes out of their way to make exactly the wrong decision at every turn. Communicating your policies and any changes to those policies to those effected by them should be STANDARD. When it isn't, you get the mess you have with Lock.

Lock's reputation hasn't been ruined by people who just like to bitch and moan. Lock's reputation has been ruined by Lock's bad decisions.