This is true too.

Although, my best exposure is often when I get Kevmath to retweet something I've said. He's like the pimp daddy of all poker tweeters.

as someone who lost a large sum of money to ap/ub, this irks me more than most probably. is there anything we can do to get the word out there that sebok is scum and therefore attach scum to the wpt? spam the **** out of his twitter? maybe some type of hashtag?

I guess so...from the Klout site: "Your True Reach is the number of people you influence. We filter out spam and bots and focus on the people who are acting on your content. When you post a message, these people tend to respond or share it."

So, yeah, 530 people, out of a million, when most people seem to have a true reach that corresponds roughly with their follower count.

If his 1M follower count was really the basis for hiring him (and I guess it is deceptively alluring), then someone got duped.

Lots of hypocrites in this thread. Hellmuth was much more of a shill for UB than Sebok ever was.

Lets hope NEVER!

What happened the last time poker players ran an organisation? hmmm... lets think about it for a second ... yeah ... exactly!

• Full Tilt
• AP/UB
• Epic Poker League

Need I go on? I am sure you get the picture. The fact the WPT is NOT run by poker players, is probably a good thing!

Barry Sebok is happy for him

@WSOPRGUY should be available soon

Isn't ClubWPT software the same as the old UB software? He is obv still just trying to get to the bottom of the old UB fiasco

I don't think it matters too much whether it was his twitter following that got him hired or not (I would guess it's more likely because he's buddies with someone at the WPT, but that's nothing more than a guess).

What concerns me more is that people with some influence in the poker world (in this instance, the decision makers at the WPT) would make a decision which was clearly going to bring more negativity to the poker community (this thread for example). And if the WPT didn't realise it would bring a negative response then they didn't do their due diligence (which is also pretty bad for other obvious reasons).

The decision to hire someone with so much baggage is at the very least naive and shows that the WPT's decision makers are incompetent, or worse, they knew it would bring some ill-feeling and did it anyway (effectively giving the poker community the finger).

WTF is going on inside your brain? Hypocrites? Wat??

Heh, this is the MO of pretty much every scumbag who knows they're trying to deceit someone. He doesn't sound very good at it, pretty transparent. Did everyone get repaid or just yourself?

Lol, sick. Know owners of twitter, make mirrions.

True that. Barry is a gent. I used to think the same of Annie Duke btw, with Howard as her brother. Makes a whole lot of sense now ofc.

+1

BTW, Klout is really poorly done. It's obviously better than nothing, but you guys shouldn't be quoting it as though somebody's Klout score is some great objective measure of how much influence they have on Twitter. As best I can tell, it uses an arbitrary collection of reasonable but noisy metrics and arbitrarily combines them in a few ways to give people various scores.

Yeah. In hindsight, it was extremely transparent

Everybody was paid as far as I know. It was probably a relatively trivial amount because I don't really think many people play not-very-well-advertised online Keno? This was less than a month before BF, though, so FWIW I doubt many people ever cashed it out. I didn't cash out my $50 or whatever it was.

Joe kept thinking that I just wanted to be paid myself, and I kept having to clarify that I wanted everybody paid...

Sure, I was just introducing it as the antidote to the "zomg 1M followers" argument for why he might be valuable to a company.

What smallballs said a few posts back is more relevant anyway.

Maybe he will wear one of his outfits again on the broadcast.



I thought Lock Poker signing of Tim West was the signing blunder of 2012. This clearly blows that away.

Who's next to sign with the WPT? Annie Duke........

I believe it was mentioned earlier in this thread...but where is all the hate for the other players who took sponsorship deals from UB (POST CHEATING SCANDAL):

Maria Ho
Roothlus
Basebaldy
Devo

The other interesting part of that earlier post was questioning IKE's continued play on UB AFTER the cheating scandal. Obviously nobody on here can question IKE's intelligence. Surely his continued play was NOT influenced by Joe Sebok. So L-O-L at Fatal Error's defense of IKE's continued play on UB as a "calculated risk" rather than motivated by greed. OF COURSE it was motivated by greed!! The exact same reason all the above named players accepted sponsorship deals from UB.

Show me where these players promised to not rest until they uncovered HH's and then proceeded to do nothing but make intentional false promises and tell blatant lies

wtf sebok has 1 mio twitter followers ?? wat ? how can this be possible ? why would anyone add this guy on twitter ?

im shattered

edit: while hellmuth ivey or even negreanu only hav around 100-200k

is sebok "famous" outsite of poker ?

K well Noah and Ike both disagreeing with me is enough for me.

That earlier post mentioned Sebok making a mistake playing the "moral crusade card". And I think that portion is also true.

He bit off way more than he could chew in order to get paid. I know I know, 75% of people in this thread wouldn't have done the same thing.

Is he a bit of a tool, no doubt.

Is he a bit too in love with himself, fo sho.

Is he the total scumbag a lot of people in this thread is making him out to be....I honestly doubt it.

Post script - not a huge Sebok by any stretch of the imagination. Just don't think the hate is equally distributed.

lol @ the posters asking how seebok can have 1 mill followers when its been explained several times in this thread already

this might help you sir: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/hypocrite

What a ****ing joke. Seriously **** you WPT

Interested to see if Bond18 has any comments

Don't forget Liv Boeree, who represented both Absolute Poker and UB, signing up with the latter post-scandal. Liv and Maria don't get much heat for some reason, can't quite think why...