You represent Lock Poker.
You take a pay cheque from Lock Poker and enjoy all the perks like the upcoming trip to Portugal for all the Lock Pros.
You actively encourage people to play on Lock and promote the company on your twitter account as seen here:
You refuse to use your position at Lock Poker to demand answers for and to help players.
You refuse to take part in the discussions in the Lock Sub forum where players are waiting months for cashouts and in the last week or so have been told their funds are in limbo and they can't cashout the thousands of dollars they have on their accounts which means the company YOU PROMOTE are stealing from the players.
My question to you is, what makes you think it's okay for you to sell action in the marketplace asking for money from the online poker community so that you can play poker and represent Lock at these events?
You were a Full Tilt red pro when ftp stopped operating in June 2011. The similarities between the two companies (towards the last few months of ftp) are there for all to see.
I would have thought that someone who had experienced this all before would see the red flags for what they are and take the correct action.
If the site goes down make no mistake about it. You won't be just someone who was a red pro and didn't know what was going on this time. You won't be viewed as an innocent party. You will be held directly responsible along with the other Lock Pros who still actively promote this site of thieves and your name and reputation, which up to now has been spotless, will be blackened for the rest of your career.
You can ignore this thread just like you ignore all the others. I expect you probably will.
A statement from Lock Poker on 5/9/2013 -KM:
Lock Poker Clarifies P2P Transfer Withdrawal Policy
Curacao May 9th, 2013
Through a detailed investigation over the past few weeks the Lock security team uncovered a large group of persons that were abusing the P2P transfer policy and creating a large network of mule accounts to move and withdraw funds without any play at all taking place.
To deal with this situation a policy change was put into place to clear out the backlog of withdrawals by accounts with little to no play and increase the speed of withdrawals for players taking actual winnings.
Lock has introduced a new cash-out policy for transferred funds which requires a player to accumulate at least 15% in GGR on the funds received via P2P transfer before these funds are cashed-out. Put simply, for every $100 of transferred funds to be withdrawn, $15 of rake or fees will need to be accumulated beforehand.
The policy change was put in place explicitly to put an end to money laundering via Lock's player transfers. Players withdrawing winnings are not affected.
Lock will continue to process withdrawals and work to reduce all withdrawal delays over the coming weeks.
A large amount of mis-information has been spread recently on various poker news sites and forum postings about player funds being lost in recent banking scandals; none of this is true.
MOD edit access to the old Lock Forum:
http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/195/lock-poker/
Last edited by Videopro; 10-30-2013 at 08:32 PM.
Reason: added Lock Poker statement from 5/9/13