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Originally Posted by Bobo Fett
When I saw this thread, my first instinct was to say definitely not at this point, for two reasons:
We've seen many botting, collusion, and other cheating problems on almost every site. Some pretty major bot/collusion rings on major advertisers like Stars, that were uncovered by players and weren't immediately dealt with.
I think there are major differences between what's going on with WPN and with what is happening on, f.e. pokerstars.
First off all there's the gravity and timespan of this scandal. It's not just botting, there are loopholes in MTT's, there are major glitches, and it's been going on for an extended period of time. Secondly, there's the lack of communication throughout most 'player issues' threads. Thirdly, when the CEO decides to speak up, he appears to be clueless. Did he not prepare? Did they not brief him? As a side-note, the $1MM MTT they marketed heavily comes up short every week.
It all seems very unprofessional. Fixable, perhaps, or manifestations of underlying more serious problems.
If this were any other industry, could you really take any other action then barring WPN from advertising, at least until problems are solved?
But this is poker, so I would like to see 2+2 put pressure on WPN. So that they make reasonable steps towards solving the issues, in a given time-frame.