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Originally Posted by NinjaKelts
Pokercliff first of all is some old guy behind a keyboard always complaining about things that doesn't matter. If you are a serious poker player and important in the poker community in West Michigan, you wouldn't be complaining about the things you say.
West Michigan has some of the best players around. You wouldn't know because you don't always get on the felt.
As answer said, you have a right to your opinion. I have run for office at the city and county level several times (more losses than wins.) If you can't take the heat, don't do it--it's kind of like poker in that way. I spent most of my first few months on these forums having people tell me some version of, "you're doing it wrong,", and it took me a while to figure out that the criticism was usually right.
I see where you're coming from, but some of what you say about me is an assumption rather than fact.
1. Yes, some of the things I have complained about, for example, incorrect display stats, are perhaps not that big a deal. I am very process-oriented, I studied business in college and I have worked many types of jobs. I've found that a business that can't do the little things correctly usually messes up the big things as well.
Example: I was in a buffet restaurant and one food bin was mislabeled. Maybe not a big deal, as there is always at least one thing that is mislabeled--but in this case my wife was allergic to what was actually in that mislabeled bin.
ACR didn't become a bot-infested, crash-prone site overnight. A lot of small errors, or not dealing with issues, built up over time. Now it's a huge mess.
I don't like giving my money to a business that can't get it's information and numbers right. It the display is wrong, correct it or take it down.
2. I care very much about the poker community. I attended a hearing about a new casino that might be coming to Muskegon Township. I spoke about how important it was to a lot of potential customers that they have a poker room. I was promised that it would happen.
I communicated with the Poker Players Alliance about several US income tax rules that are unfair to poker players. For example, most people are allowed to own several schedule C business. Poker players usually are not, because if you file as a Schedule C (professional) player, poker is supposed to be at least 50% of your income and/or 50% of your work hours.
I also talked to the Muskegon room about reaching out to neighboring counties where players might not know that we have a poker room. They weren't interested.
3. I have never doubted that we have some very good poker players in West Michigan. I know some of them. There is a woman who lives about 20 miles from me who had a coach for a while. Part of her training was to play HU with that coach every day for a year.