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Any chance of reaching out to Shane with a fake business opportunity or something and fishing for info along the way?

Try his public profiles like this:

http://m.people.bayt.com/shane-bridges-25457090/

probably a bunch of bots on the site playing each other

Shane Bridges

Rugby Union
Current competing in the Croatian National Rugby Competition as a member of the Sinj Rugby Club.

Shouldn't this make him really easy to find if his profile is current?

I'm sorry there is no way you are going to get any similar listings on adwords for 300 a month, poker companies pay huge amounts to get listed for those keywords. also adwords don't allow gambling ads for most markets (UK is one of the few 'OK' markets)

Best bet is to get people to link to the thread on twoplustwo and it get it ranked in the natural results.

Yes, if he is still there, it should be easy to find him. Sinj is 25km away from Split, where he has spent an extended period:

"I have spent extended periods in Dubai, London, Berlin, Phuket, Split and Vienna."

If he has left meanwhile, there should be at least enough records about his stay there and what he made is AFAIK fraud by the criminal laws of Croatia.
I will contact the police of Split after New Year and see what is possible.

Same is valid for his colleague Gerard Poltorak. Should be fraud by the criminal laws of Scotland.

-> http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/sh...postcount=3141


You lied too much Geoffrey, now is judgement time!

Jim Erwood is another person who worked with Lock Poker for a long time.

16k here, 5k of which is a cashout that was processed in May 2013. I email them every couple of months to complain & to amuse myself and I get the same "you should have it soon" response. I really don't understand how even an employee of the company can justify working there at this point.

-> http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/sh...postcount=3145

This situation is so gross. How can the doj possibly justify seizing pokerstars website and indicting the owners and not take any action against lock?

I mean know why, there was a lot of $ at stake w/ stars and stars had high profile, and lock is small potatoes by comparison. But stars was a responsible and ethical business, and at this point, lock has moved beyond ponzi scheme into brazen criminal organization

That is because our US govt (DOJ) is nothing more than a "legalized" gang. They will shakedown in the guise of protecting consumers when there is $ to be made. Lock poker will cost them resources with no $ profit in return.

I email Preet Bharara about Lock poker many months ago. Of course he never wrote back.

No harm in trying this again. Will mail it today. http://www.justice.gov/usao/nys/form...rimereport.pdf

I urge everyone to filled the above form and mail it in. Maybe if the office receive enough letters they will publicly respond to it.

Note: when filling out the form... Refer to Lock's website as www.lockpoker.com

Sounds stupid but don't use .eu which might discourage our govt from pursuiting action.

+1

Make sure to bid on exact match keywords to keep costs down.

With very targeted settings and exact match keywords, it shouldn't be a problem to at least getting the ads to show. Blowing out the budget could be an issue, but it would depend on the click-thru-rate and keyword quality scores. I don't see any ads being triggered for "lock poker", only organic listings.

Ad copy may become an issue, but as long as the copy does not mention "gambling" it should be fine. Online gambling related information is against Google policies, however a blog with content about personal experiences may be acceptable.


You could possibly incorporate dynamic ads (ads where the keyword search is inserted into the headline/description lines) in order to get around ad policies. For example let's say you had an ad that said: {KeyWord:} Scammed Me....Read Similar Stories Here, Before Joining {KeyWord:} . So if they search say "lock poker" an ad may read:


Lock Poker Scammed Me
Read Similar Stories Here
Before Joining Lock Poker
www.lockpokerscammedme.com



Policies are very sensitive in regards to gambling, but with enough tweaking it's possible to work around.

Not sure how much of this has to do with this thread (or the other), but Lock does not look great from a simple Google search from my end. The top three and No. 6 results are still different parts of the .EU site. Then again, it's not surprising that the top search result for Lock Poker will be Lock Poker.

After that, this shows up on the first page of results:

No. 4: Lock Poker: Inside the Troubled Online Poker Room
http://www.onlinepokerreport.com/116...to-lock-poker/

No. 5: Lock Poker - Two Plus Two - LockPoker Support Forum
http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/195/lock-poker/

No. 7: Lock Poker Review - Warning! Scam Alert Read this Review!
http://www.safestpokersites.com/lock-poker/

No. 9: Unpaid Lock Poker Cashouts Reach Two Year Mark
http://www.uspoker.com/blog/unpaid-l...ear-mark/9189/

So nice work, if anyone around here had anything to do with it. However, I'm wondering how many people looking to play on a site (e.g. Americans finding U.S.-facing sites) would do a search specifically for "Lock Poker?" I'd be curious to know which searches are most often sending people to Lock in the first place.

These are great for results, unfortunately they are a little too low on the first page.

The first 3 organic results get approximately 60% of search clicks. That is why paid search is very effective as you can pay to have your result appear above the first organic rankings. While paid results get fewer clicks, they are great for building awareness, especially with a well written ad.