Yoo hoo, Jen? Whatever method you used to get the cash to pay for your lavish vacation...well you need to use the same method to get the players paid.

that's a little misleading. the article is basically just a reference to this thread and the jen larson quote is in reference to a 2011 trip. not that it isn't true, but just sayin.

If someone owed me 200k, and acted like these people are acting, people would be disappearing off the planet. Hollow points to their mellons. Luckily for them they don't owe me any money. This video sums up my attitude toward people buying Rolls Royce limos when they owe millions of dollars to people. I play the hypothetical part of Phil Leotardo here:

She will be a fugitive in 3 years, but the only ones who will end up doing any time are the processors, just like in the ub/ap/ full tilt scandals. It's the perfect crime:

1. hide money in swiss bank accounts
2. eventually get caught, rat out your bank processors, and repay a small percent of what you stole while the rest is hidden in banks where even the fbi can't find it.
3. Issue a very bland apology, meanwhile grinning from ear to ear as you realize you have just run an epic ponzi scheme that has little to no repurcussions.

I say y'all having a good time out there

Yeah, yeah, yeah que no pare la fiesta
Don't stop the party!

According to Matt Stout, it's all true.

Chateau de Bagnols Part 1: Tossing My Cookies in a French Castle | Matt Stout Poker Blog October 18, 2011
THERE ARE A LOT OF THINGS I PLAN ON DOING IN THIS LIFETIME. HERE’S THE STORY OF SOMETHING THAT WAS NEVER ON THAT LIST FOR GOOD REASON, BUT STILL MAKES A PRETTY GOOD STORY.

A couple weeks ago I spent three of the most unforgettable days of my entire life at Chateau de Bagnols, a castle near Lyon, France. Jennifer Larson, the owner of Lock Poker, rented out the whole place so that we could take it over for the first ever LockPRO retreat (although I’m sure there are plenty more to come).

The ultimate goal of the retreat was to help us get to know one another since many of us had never met before and live in various countries, but it was also a great opportunity to get to know the owner as well. Oddly enough, despite being a LockPRO for over three years and having been through hell and high water with Jenn as we left the Cake Network and moved to the Merge Network, we’d still never met. I’d never been through such a struggle with someone without having met them before in my life, so it was great to finally hang out and party together.

I was stunned at how incredible the pictures looked online before arriving at the castle, but even they didn’t do it justice. The place is just beyond description. When walk in you can feel the history as you marvel at the perfectly preserved remnants of the past. Most of the stuff there is OLDER THAN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA is. It’s just incredible to see how they’ve managed to preserve history in such beautiful fashion.

And I puked on it.

That’s right, apparently I got a little too drunk at the welcome party after flying for about a day to get there. I was really excited to finally get to meet everyone, and everyone was partying pretty hard after our 10-or-so course dinner when the DJ started spinning and the open bar came out. Not to be outdone, I *decided* that I was going to get blackout drunk and head back to my room for a long night of puking.

I probably should have stopped after this particular screwdriver.

I woke up the next day nice and hung over, and managed to miss archery in the moat. Archery in the moat. I missed archery in a ****ing MOAT because I was hung over. What a dumbass. I’m sure I’ll have plenty of opportunites to do that again in the near future!

Archery in a moat!

I managed to make it down to lunch, and literally stopped dead in my tracks and quiet said “holy ****ing ****” to myself when I saw the views from the area where were were set up for lunch. I really felt like I was in a movie where they show one of those epic landscape shots. Then they served us a five-course meal while we marvel at the view. When I say give, I’m just estimating because I often lost count during these absurd and incredible marathon meals.

Holy ****ing ****.

After lunch I headed to the pool with Jeff Romano, Marc Alioto, and Nicky Evans. Shortly after getting in one of Jenn’s lawyers decided to do me the favor of informing me that while cleaning the room, the staff discovered that a 17th century antique had been puked on. They were now trying to clean it and would assess the cost as soon as possible. Rather than tell the people who were staying in the room, they decided to go straight to the owner of Lock with this info.

Oh, joy and rapture…I’d like to thank them for that. This is the part where I get to hop out of the pool and go have a chat with the owner in swim trunks, flip flops, and a Bustout t-shirt about the little situation we had going on. Doubt she could have been cooler about it, but I never expected to be standing in front of her explaining that I was never again going to vomit on any 17th century antiques in a French castle that she was paying for, and offered to pay for any damages. Although no one ever saw this alleged antique because it was removed from the room for cleaning, it was apparently some sort of marble sculpture.

My new buddies from gambling911 were nice enough to publish the following article on the matter: http://www.gambling911.com/poker/pok...ue-101011.html

I’d like to thank them from the bottom of my heart. Sigh…

To be continued!

Stout

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LOL at Matt Stout...is that the ultimate dbag blog posting or what??? Way to be proud of your lifetime accomplishments.

Guy was probably that dude in high school that went around telling everyone at the party how many beers he drank that night. What a chode.

Why not just give people cash in person if "processing" cash outs are such a problem?

Oh wait...they're busy blowing all our money on castle parties. I guess castle parties are the new lobster.

anyone thought about trying to estimate the costs of international flights + hotels + limos + food + entertainment for 30 pros + support staff + management?

Shine a bit of light on what this party is costing?

Min 100k probably 200k+

It looks like you really need to work on your inside sources, Shane.

hotel lock and in jens master chamber the lock pros gather for the feast ,they cancel withdraw with there steely knives , for them to keep. there livening it up at hotel lock any time of year you can see funds disappear. you can deposit any time your like but your funds will never leave .

Shane wasn't invited and now he's mad.

nice

Hearing about this expensive party while Lock isn't paying its players is making my blood boil. They cancel everybody's withdrawals and then go blow it on a party??? Seriously?? WTF!?!?!

http://www.vladi-private-islands.de/...au-de-bagnols/

Says that place rents for EUR 500-2700 per room per night

A+

Weird no pros itt

It took me approximately ten months to get mine, you still have hope.

gj OP on finally derailing shane (&Lock). after a long history of doubtful statements, it was this one that finally unmasked him as a liar. how could he even try to cover the fact that larson was having fun with the "lock pros" in portugal when it was so obvious that some of them would post about it somewhere.

Yep sure showed them, now they gone and we stand here patting ourselves on the back

im pretty sure no1 who has funds on lock is patting each other on the back and if i had an idea how we all could escape from this misery i would post it right here right now.

One aspect that nobody has addressed that doesn't quite make sense to me:

If I was about to run and steal everyone's money, I wouldn't spend $200k+ of it on a bunch of site pros at the last minute. Solvent or not, it doesn't quite make sense to make that the endgame.

You don't need a huge lavish retreat to have them continue tweeting to sign up for Lock Poker, they already get paid to do so.

Neither does not paying people reasonably fast for over 6 months, constantly saying it'll be solved the next month, then saying it's out of your control, and now saying it'll for sure be solved in 3-4 weeks.

I mean, at the very least, even if it is solved in 3-4 weeks, these are communication failures and some outright false things being said for awhile now, of epic proportions.