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Originally Posted by JimAfternoon
I'd like Pokerfuse to respond to these allegations of running a false story that directly contradicts what they were told by Shane.
Is Hood a PokerFuse guy?
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 professionalrakeback.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.
Last edited by Mike Haven; 07-01-2013 at 09:33 AM.