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Originally Posted by NerdSuperfly
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Originally Posted by Kilowatt
If a major organization like Pokerstars pulls out of the event due to thefts and incompetence (or complicity) in hotel security, that looks absolutely TERRIBLE for Arts, as well as all brands associated with it. And that sort of thing happening is likely to get some media attention, as well -- at least enough to show up prominently in google when people search for Hotel Arts Barcelona
yeah sure ... CNN and every TV-Station would rush to the hotel, because a major company cancels a contract ... i don't say that PS played it perfectly, but seriously, you're behaving irrational and you try way too hard, to blame PS for the incident.
if you think you're soooooo smart, just tell us, what would you have done ... gone to the management and say "if you don't give me full control over all your video material, than we'll never come back!" ... or would you've called the spanish police, because you think, that maybe 2 laptops were infected w/ trojans and it seems that the hotel security is involved?
seriously ... did you watch too much M Squad?
TMZ covered the divorce of Prahlad freakin' Friedman recently.
While this would not be front-page CNN news, I think plenty of media outlets would be interested in hotel break-ins, thefts, and laptop tampering at a five-star hotel assocaited with the Ritz, especially because it involves high stakes poker players. In general, the world is still fascinated with the poker lifestyle. This story would really take off if Pokerstars canceled future years of this and cited security concerns as reason for doing so.
I wasn't suggesting they give Pokerstars demand control over video material.
I was saying that they should have demanded a sensible explanation for what happened, backed with evidence. I was saying that Pokerstars should have held the hotel's feet to the fire for their initial lies about the cameras being broken. I was saying that Pokerstars should not have ganged up with hotel security on Jens and accused his innocent roommate of this, but rather examined the entire situation and realized that it was the hotel security acting shady, NOT Jens' roommate.
Only a complete idiot would read this story and think anything but, "Hotel security was either in on it, covering up, or massively incompetent."
Nobody would come away with the belief that Jen's roommate did it, so why did the security manager of Pokerstars?
Even if Pokerstars does have limited "power" (which I disagree with), they should have done everything they could, and then canceled their future plans with Arts if they did not get satisfaction. They did not do this. In poker terms, they were the epitome of loose-passive.