qft.

does this mean that you're going to stop with the "i win at bbv" thread in 4L?

Josem,

My opinion is that you should use your PokerStars user name for questions and issues pertaining to PokerStars and continue utilizing your original account for everything else. You have been a valuable member of the 2+2 community as well as the poker watchdog community. Your efforts are greatly appreciated by all.

This is an online message board and your opinions and facts regarding other sites should be welcome here. Even poker site owners should be able to post facts about other sites and also opinions if not too blatant. Just because you are working for PokerStars you should not be prevented from participating and enjoying these forums. That is JMHO!

Thank you,

Jim Kuhn
Catfish4u

pls to be monitoring for VP's with coke habits, thx

meh, i see no reason to stop it

congrats (again) Michael. Do us all proud.

This is a little late but congrats Josem.You always seemed to be a stand up guy to me,youll be a great asset to team Pokerstars.

not commenting on issues bc u work at stars is incredibly lame. so long as your posts/opinions are based on truth and logic there shouldnt be a problem.

essentially, you are saying that it will be impossible for u to speak truthfully about competitors bc you work at stars. i had always thought better of u josem.

and hopefully this doesnt extend further simple online poker issues in general, and not just discussions of rivals.

Victor, while I agree that it shouldn't matter, Josem is probably expecting lots of this:

if he continues to post anything negative about anyone but Stars. Again, not that it should stop him, but I understand where he's coming from.

TTS, Peyote, no, nobody had to. Pathetic IMO.

It's not that JoseM will be unable to be impartial it will be that he will be unable to be seen to be impartial and Stars don't need or want to look like they are trashing other sites here.

Victor, Jim, MB, Dave, & Others,

Thanks very much for your kind comments. I'm genuinely flattered that there are a number of people who think very highly of my posts in the past.

In the past, even before there was any connection between me and PokerStars, there were a series of accusations that I was a "shill" (and other words to that effect). I'm particularly sensitive to these sorts of accusations/comments for a few reasons.

In no particular order:

1) Since I use my real name to post on here, when you type my name into Google, a variety of 2p2 posts pop up. In a digital world where this is archived forever, I don't want to have these comments & criticisms associated with my name, regardless of how untrue they are.

2) In the future, people will look at my posts through the prism of me being a PokerStars employee first, and an individual second. There will always be, in the minds of others, the possibility that I'm just sprouting the "company line." Even the perception of this is enough to want to avoid it.

3) I don't want any personal views/feelings that I have to be perceived as the views of PokerStars. It wouldn't take much imagination for someone to convert my comments on another site to "PokerStars launches secretive attack on XXXXX." It's not fair to PokerStars to have this happen.

4) At the end of the day, as a private individual, I don't feel that there is an obligation for me to post on/about anything I don't want to. While I understand that no one is saying that there is such an obligation, at the end of the day, the topics that I do or do not post about are up to me.

5) With a significant past history of involvement in politics, I've already had #3 happen to me (in relation to my politics) courtesy of the regional radio station. I just don't want to get involved in that again.

More substantially, the value of the 2p2 fora is that they are bigger than any individual (there's a great book that talks about this concept, "The Wisdom of Crowds"). While I appreciate the kind thoughts of people here, I have no doubt that there will be other posters in the future who will post heaps anyway.

Once again, thanks for the kind wishes. I'll still be around to share strategy and help out where I can on other topics.

Congrats on the appointment!

impressive stuff

thanks for the link michael j game security

chat laters

odd bump, imo...

OT

custom title change imo

there is a reason behind this bump tory

for one, people today, who joined 2+2 recently, may not know that the guy they often see posting as michael j, game security, was, used to be, one of us, a 2+2 poster,
a prolific poster,
and one involved enough in the UB scandal to be name-checked in the opening paras Sticky on - news, views, gossip - thread
they may just think he is a corporate bod - from the views expressed on this thread, i think that josem is, quite clearly, not.

also, josem just posted me a link to this thread, so i could see what he was about, so the bump was to show him, yes, message understood.

and the real reason?

you may or not be aware i am looking into the Chinese DoN collusion scandal, as far as i am aware the biggest online scandal since, and of a diff order, since that was about the people at the site cheating,
this one is about players cheating themsleves,

i went to china a couple of weeks ago and registered a criminal case with the chinese police, i have been to talk to head of game security (josem's boss) at PS in the isle of man, and i am on the radio, BBC radio, this sunday, talking with the host of 5live investigates and josem about this issue, and the next day, 13th sept, i fly back to china from uk and see what the police have done about this case and also ask other contacts i have made about this:

BEIJING | Tue Feb 9, 2010 7:46am IST
BEIJING (Reuters) - China plans to crack down on the online gambling industry, including the banks and websites that support it, the Ministry of Public Security said in a statement posted on its website.
The campaign will "concentrate on investigating major and important cases of online gambling, knock out domestic and foreign groups that organize online gambling, and severely punish the criminal elements", the statement said.
The crackdown, to be conducted between February and August, was agreed to by eight government bodies including the Supreme Court, Propaganda bureau, the Central Bank and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.

which may well relate to this

Chinese Anti-Gambling Legislation Implemented
August 7th, 2010


China just implemented their own version of the UIGEA on Sunday. Their is now anti-gambling legislation in China that prohibit all forms of gambling or online gambling. The only exclusion would be the national lottery that is controlled by the Chinese government. This new legislation even restricts the marketing or advertising of online gambling within China and it makes it a criminal offense to advertise any online gambling activities to anyone from within the country.

in Beijing i am going to the Ministry of Public Security, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Supreme Court, Propaganda bureau, the Central Bank and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology to ask if they are serious, and with the info i was supplied on the isle of man, i can tell them how to get all the chinese players ID's,



there are a few things about the chinese don collusion that do not add up, as yet,

when i posted about this on the DoN collusion thread
ITT there are people who just put josem down as a PS shill,
maybe he is ( i dont think so myself for a minute)
i ain't

I don't think it is. If you look at some post in that thread by a former Stars employee, he suggests that there was at least one bigger (but hidden) scandal. At least that's they way I understood what he wrote. And that makes me think how many other things we will never know, just as we would never know about these Chinese colluders had Jane not posted here.

Link to scandal ?

That poster's last activity on 2+2 was 10-05-2014 05:10 PM

Don't hold your breath.


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Kahn