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Originally Posted by smurg
Urine idiot.
Like promoters have any clue about a company's financials. They are there for marketing.
They show up, make a video or two for youtube, wear patch, and get paid.
Most of the guys promoting lower traffic sites probably take any deal they can find.
I'm not following this situation closely, so apologies if this is premature and Lock sorts things out. It's easy for me to sit back and fire moralizing shots when poker isn't my main source of income anymore, and it's especially easy to say "I told you so" instead of "whoops, I criticized some things and people unfairly".
All the signs were there for those who wanted to give a ****. I was pretty vocal early on that I was extremely uncomfortable with people promoting Lock, especially prominent people in the my subset of the poker community. One sponsored pro responded by emailing me privately and asking for every piece of information I could give him because he was concerned too, and I respected that a lot. He ended up continuing to promote them and trying to reform them from inside, Joe Sebok style, which I disagreed with, but it's a tough decision to make and at least he cared enough to get as much information as he could and try to change things.
There are others who seemed to just think it was OK in a post black friday world. Everybody should know allowing play in the United States is dangerous. Everybody should know there's a chance of the site becoming insolvent. Given that you should know, sign up at your own risk, and use my rakeback code that has economics that are completely unsustainable.
But I think we have to have higher standards than this. Promoters had a good idea about the site's business model and what it was paying out to who. They should know the details of all the scandals. "I don't know Absolute Poker's financials, I'm just taking a deal that was offered to me and marketing for them" isn't OK. It wasn't OK before black friday and it isn't OK now.