An intelligence test

[lorinda]

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oh geez - this is so annoying that no one seems to "get it"

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You have been asked many times who you are and you still expect people to listen to you despite dodging the question.

It appears you are just another spammer, albeit one that several people know.

Lori

[MILFChaser]

Lorinda, I have no idea of your name, what you do for a living, or even your gender. Does this mean I should disregard anything you say because you are obviously a spammer?

[gila]

...but what are you really trying to say? [img]/images/graemlins/cool.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img]

[lorinda]

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Lorinda, I have no idea of your name, what you do for a living, or even your gender. Does this mean I should disregard anything you say because you are obviously a spammer?

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The difference is that Al keeps implying that he has inside information, while all the time asking people to PM him.

It is pretty clear that he's trying to sell people rak...gift certificate redemption programs on the back of who he is, without even saying who he is.

Personally I am not an affiliate, and I am not selling anything. I believe entirely that everyone here has the right to be anonymous, but Al keeps saying you should PM him and my take on it is that he's just trying to promote his own business.

Lori

[sweetmoses]

he is part of the big affilaites that are signing up all the affiliates whose accounts just got frozen. all those accounts lose their ability to track rake, the players get nothing, those affiliates get nothing, and al and his cronies get all the income. all the while, the affiliates are offering RAKEBACK from al and card player cruises support for party poker

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From the rakeback review forum:

"Milfchaser from 2+2 registered for this forum as checkraisinu and began a large PM campaign. I was notified by several players about this. I come to find out this affiliate who operates without any website, has only 30 posts, most of them scare posts at 2+2 in the affiliate section or ones that have been deleted for spam, and violates obvious forum rules both here and there is bashing large affiliates and claiming to be a top 3 Party Poker affiliate. This affiliate sent out over 100 PM's that were against the rules.

Anyone who is considering signing up with them, they are banned from RRR and RRR has never checked them out, we dont know who they are and they have a shady agenda of bashing others publicly and going behind the scenes to try and profit off of it. The point of this site is to find affiliates who are on the up and up and willing to be scrutinized by me and the public eye, it is not for spammers who create multiple names to take advantage of. Spammers who have hidden identities, no website and have only been on the scene for a few months according to their signup date at 2+2.

I would strongly suggest avoiding this affiliate.

John"

[Freudian]

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he is part of the big affilaites that are signing up all the affiliates whose accounts just got frozen. all those accounts lose their ability to track rake, the players get nothing, those affiliates get nothing, and al and his cronies get all the income. all the while, the affiliates are offering RAKEBACK from al and card player cruises support for party poker

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Ah, so he is with CPC. I was wondering why he was trying so hard to avoid answering questions about his motivations.

[MILFChaser]

I have already addressed this in another post. I broke the rules of the RBR site and am not welcome there anymore. I accepted the punishment and look forward to serving my players in the future. I also took issue with the comment that I had "bashed" anyone. This matter is considered closed by both myself and RBR. Thanks for digging it up though.

[BluffTHIS!]

I think I made it clear in my post in the other thread started by Al that I don't give a rat's ass about rakeback/rewards. But Lorinda and oct have hit the nail on the head and clearly expose that Al's motivations are suspect. Here's the possibilities I see:

1) He is indeed a spammer;

2) He is an affiliate scared sh*tless that party will think every affiliate is going against their rules and will just offer no rakeback or rewards and ditch the affiliate system altogether. This would doubltless be a tragedy since Al probably has minimal poker skills and thus is highly dependent on other players being his rake slaves to sustain his lifestyle;

or,

3) He is insider either at party or in a concern with a financial interest in party gaming and is worried that smart stock analysts monitor these boards and will decide that rakeback is going on and correctly estimate the affiliate drain/promotion cost on party's revenues and discount their earnings projections accordingly with the result that their share price will fall even lower from their giddiest highs (even with the rebound from the beginning of the week it is still down 100 points from the high and the low was reached this week). Plus such analysts should easily be able to infer from negative feedback here that the high volume player base that insures games are available for recreational players 24/7 might just be moving on to other sites which then obviously will downside any potential party has for moving poker money into its online casino operations.

The bottom line is there is blood in the water and although party won't get killed in poker business they have already been mauled in the stock market along with other online gaming, and can easily end up in even worse shape. If stars and the other sites are truly tight aggessive in the poker site market then they will bite the bullet, lower their owner compensation, and funnel all available funds into marketing now while party is vulnerable. THAT and the fact that some other sites like stars don't offer rakeback for affiliates to make a business on is the real reason party and those who live off their rake through the playing of others are scared and want to limit free expression of opionion here that will get not only observed by savy analysts but also sucked up into search engines for the whole globe to see.

If #s 1 or 2 above is correct, then my advice for you Al is to learn to actually play poker well or get a job.

[otctrader]

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otctrader - please do not take my tone or words the wrong way and think that anything I said was directed at you personally. You made good and valid points. My frustration is toward the entire insanity of how simple things just cannot be comprehended and need to be repeated over and over.

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Al, no offense taken, I appreciate the open dialogue and the view from your perspective; clearly, affiliate marketing has to be in line with the parent's image.

On the other hand, high volume players such as myself that are trying to procure a vig reduction shouldn't be faulted for questioning how the system works. There would be no questions if the system were truly transparent, but it's not, and we have the right to find out what the affiliate's and Party's motives are since it affects our livelihood.

Anyhow, I'll shut my mouth since I don't want to stir the pot - at this point, I really just want to get back playing poker with an arragement similar to that which existed last week, and I'm sure others feel the same way.