Just fwiw, I said in another thread about how I got a trip to the Cake Poker set-up here in Dublin, Ireland a while back and how it was being run from the basement of a Georgian House.
I got a load of pm's asking me for details about it but I refrained as I know Cake and their staff are pretty active here with regular accounts and you can't trust everybody. Another poster knows the story anyway.
For clarification, I thought I'd see if there's a google street view pic of the building. There isn't, so here's a screenshot I took with google earth to highlight the sheer enormity of Cake's operation.
What you're seeing is the Georgian House. The steps lead to the first floor/main door which is the entrance to the businesses occupying floor 1+2. On the right of the steps is a small staircase leading to a door built into the side of the steps which was the entrance to Cake's operation here.
It's a super small basement with two main rooms, a small room in the back and a bathroom. They're mostly used as one bed flats and the georgian buildings themselves are extremely common here in Dublin. I can't imagine many businesses are ran from them, let alone a multi-million dollar business. Fwiw I'm aware they have the software design / maintenance end of the business kept in Canada.
When I was there, security,customer services and the cashier were being run from the same, small room. I'm in no way surprised to see the **** hitting the fan after being down there. It's just a shame to see the great Lee Jones getting himself caught up in this. Walk away Lee, keep your reputation and move back to good businesses.