We received this post report today:
First, I'll speak in general terms.
As a general rule, we don't micromanage what our advertisers do, or require them to be answerable to us for all of their actions. I know there have sometimes been moves made by long-term advertisers that a lot of people didn't agree with, and even ones at times that have been labelled as unethical and/or scams. We aren't going to pull ads every time a group of people is unhappy with an advertiser (and I'm not suggesting anyone is requesting that). But that is why it is important that we have these threads, and we don't often have poker rooms advertise with us that don't have a thread like this where people can bring up their questions and concerns - our members are always going to be the best source of information about problems with sites, and the sites' responses (or lack thereof) can be very informative to existing and potential customers.
That said, it's not like we completely wash our hands of any policing of our advertisers. We have in the past, and I'm sure will again in the future, refuse(d) advertising from businesses that we didn't feel comfortable with, and there have been some exceptional cases where we declined a renewal or even cancelled and refunded an ongoing campaign. But the threshold for doing such a thing is quite high.
With all of that out of the way, I'd like to better understand the situation mentioned above. I have been keeping tabs on this thread, so I was aware of the issue, but I want to make sure I have a complete grasp of it.
It sounds to me like players are buying in to a tournament with CHP, and the site has advertised that they will be adding some ETH to the prize pool. Tournament crashes during the final table, players are refunded their buy-ins, and the promised ETH is not awarded. If I have that right, I would see two issues:
1) Most sites would chop the CHP based on chip equity, which seems much more fair than giving the same thing to the chip leader and people who had already busted and thus were unaffected by the crash.
2) ETH prizes are not being awarded as promised.
Those issues aside, if I understand things correctly, it doesn't sound like CP is stealing money from any individual player. That's not to excuse the issues people will obviously have with the above 2 points; I just want to make sure there isn't some further issue I'm missing.
Do I have this right?