Quote:
Originally Posted by Balbomb
The whole thing is sad because it truly illustrates the predator environment of poker. Rampage is getting rich off of what can best be described as a shady business, he also at a minimum is soft playing friends which in an ideal world would never happen. Yet at the same point Ethan has provided the OP a place to play where he is getting benefits that were enough to justify playing on a shady site. Additionally OP has failed to give specifics to protect himself, and in turn protecting Ethan.
This is truly the smaller scale version of high stakes pros for decades keeping quiet about cheaters and scammers and stealers when outing them early on could really help the community.
I only played in the club a handful of times until I caught on to a group of players colluding. The mysterious agents behind the curtain will respond to these types of allegations by claiming they will launch an investigation with CLUBGG. This is a total lie. Here is the position of CLUBGG: ClubGG operates within the sweepstakes rules where they are legal. The Site does not permit members to wager real money and has no ability to accept deposits as it is a "free play" site only. This is like complaining to ZYNGA poker about collusion -- there is NO security department for a play chip application.
There have been other users on this thread who have already corroborated everything I have described with the exception of the collusion. I recently played in a home game and remarked to the host that one of his players was clearly colluding with two other player by using his hat to signal information. His response was "they are all friends", yeah, friends working together to hustle newcomers and looking back at the scenario now the host was most likely in on it.
If Rampage wants to put his reputation on the line by allowing a bunch of crooked agents to run his underground poker club while he sits at live games and colludes with his friends he will be in for a rude awakening one day. As per Mariano, well, everyone should start asking how a terrible 2/5 player skyrocketed up to these 6 figure buy-in cash games... He must have been trained by Mike Postle.