Re: ISOP Cancellation
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I'm sorry we haven't been around the forums lately. There has been a ton of work to be done to try and hold the ISOP together that consumed all our available resources, and we haven't had anything concrete to report anyways.
It saddens me to announce that the ISOP is canceled effective immediately. We worked very hard and spent much capital on delivering a premier event to take advantage of this poker boom. Unfortunately, several sites who committed to the ISOP have pulled out at this 23rd hour and we are also having severe contract problems with current sponsors. I have been ill recently and I would like to thank my partner jek for working double duty to try and resolve these issues, but after a thorough review of the current "State of the Union" I am now completely caught up, and jek and I have jointly determined that this diluted series that is still far from resolved of its problems, is no longer a viable or attractive event to the player pool we had hoped to attract.
We apologize to all, especially Chuck and Mason who believed in us so deeply. Their assistance to get us to this point was a statement of faith in us that makes this all the more difficult. The ISOP forum has been dismantled and all contracts are now null and void.
We have poured our heart and souls and finances in this, but we are down to only 5 rooms, 5 poker rooms does not an ISOP make and therefore we are ending the concept effective immediately. We apologize to those that spent time in creating your marketing tools but this can't be salvaged. We deeply apologize to Chuck Weinstock especially and want to thank him for all of his technical assistance, hard work and guidance.
Deepest Regrets to all,
Granny Mae
jek187
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Hi All,
Just to clarify; This post is basically a reprint of an email that was sent yesterday to all of the sponsors and the guys here at 2+2 (Mason, Chuck etc.). I'm still away for a few days. If you have written me an email or PM, thanks very much. I will be answering those midweek.
I just wanted to put this post in context. For instance, the relevance of my mention of being sick was simply a communication to the sponsors that were getting that email that I was sorry I had been out of the email loop for a few days. It had no relevance to the demise of the series. The series tanked because 11 rooms became 6, became 5. Out of the five, there were contract issues Still remaining with 2. It took 6 months to get 11 independent rooms to agree to such a concept. However, once we accomplished that, next step was getting a contract past 11 teams of site operators and legal departments all overseas. This proved to be the demise of the ISOP due to our inability to get all these separate entities on the same page. The ISOP was a grandiose plan and we thought we were going to get it launched up until the last few days. We gave it our best and are proud of our efforts.
It simply could not be fixed but no particular room(s) will be named as requested earlier in this thread. So, while this post was not really meant as the official announcement, it should be noted that an official announcement would not have read much differently. I'll be happy to discuss it more in depth when I return if there is still interest in what went wrong.
The hidden, good news is that Mason will be providing you with a humor column this month because I missed my deadline. So there is a 99.99% chance it may actually be funny, which I know you are not accustomed to.. If it is, don't get too excited, I'll be back for next issue (though I am sure there is room for many funny columns). Thanks for the support.
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