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Well, I did say I didn't think he was actually a shill. But he sure talks just the same as a shill would talk. Maybe with less competence, but otherwise the same.

I'm just amazed that somebody can be so gung-ho against the position we are taking, without being aligned with the WPT.

Even if you think that the WPT is going to play the "online gambling card" (analogous to playing the "race card" in theoretically racial situations that don't actually have anything to do with racism), does that mean that you should just sit back and continue to let them screw you over? As far as I'm concerned, that's like giving your lunch money to the bully all year long so he doesn't beat you up. It's just the wrong thing to do. I'd rather stand up to the bully, even if he hurts me at first, and get some justice.

Later, Greg Raymer (FossilMan)

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I agree with you that throwing in the Online Gambling language was their way of saying they are serious, and I can see how one might classify that as "dirty pool" (assuming that their point has no basis in law or fact, which I don't know).

However, I think a reasonable view of the entire litigation is that your side has done the same thing. It seems to me that your main complaint is the release ... I have a feeling from your posts that if they changed the release tomorrow the anti-trust part of the suit goes away. So, to some degree, you guys throwing in the anti-trust allegations -- which are far more serious than the release issues -- could be seen as your "dirty pool" way of, to use your words, "blackmail" them into giving in on the release issue.

I happen to hope that you prevail on your release issue. I can't win my neighborhood tournament more than once every year or so (you are welcome to come play with us in Cary), but I'd like to think over the years I'll get better and maybe one day win a WPT event (as unlikely as that might be). When that happens I would be grateful for a fairer release. But in the meantime, you have to understand that for even those of us who respect your skills and all you've done here, we may not see that your legal machinations are any more reasonable than those of the WPTE. And I don't have to be a WPTE shill to believe that.

Good luck in your lawsuit.

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