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Originally Posted by 99 problems
It should be obvious to everyone that he did it for the money, so obvious that he doesn't need to say it...But it's also important to note that, to me at least, Joe is not a "cash grab guy", and this is clearly not just about the money.
I think he is intentionally obfuscating the fact that his
only motivation is cash. He wants us (and probably himself) to believe that signing with UB is a selfless act on behalf of the poker community. Yet, all of the evidence indicates otherwise:
1.) Pokerroad is probably not even profitable, and if it is, Joe is not earning a substantial income from it.
2.) A sucky tourney donk as it is (as Ike Haxton exposed), Joe can't possibly be profitable while spending most of his time on pokerroad.
3.) His own father and business partner is so incensed with the UB debacle that he refuses to allow pokerroad to accept their ad dollars.
4.) UB is obviously his only sponsorship opportunity, or he would have already signed with another site. Alternatively, other sites may have offered him sponsorship deals but UB was the highest bidder. Either way, it's all about the $$$$.
5.) As I mentioned before, you can't fund a crusade with $ from the company you are supposedly crusading against.
6.) While Joe may view himself as an influential member of the poker community, I strongly doubt that most of the community agrees. For starters, the guy is not an online player, has had ZERO presence in any of the 2+2 UB/AP threads and his radio show is primarily for entertainment and "humor," not objective journalism/commentary.
7.) Of course, he had absolutely no new information to bring to the table during the interview w/ Mike and Adam. All we learned from the interview is that UB, the company paying Joe, meets Joe's standards for ethics. Shocking.