AP Visit: I'm going to Costa Rica

[PoorSkillz]

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I'm a bit puzzled by this. You WANT AP to survive?

I've just spent a little time going through KGC's gaming regulations, I can't imagine a more serious breach of the rules than to a) allow or fail to stop insider cheating and b) fail to keep proper gaming records. If those two offences don't lead to revocation of AP's licence then what does a girl have to do to get revoked around here?

Seriously, I can't see that your going to Costa Rica will achieve anything other than making you their PR agent and giving the company a better chance of surviving. I mean, really, why do you think they invited you?

If AP does survive, it basically means that the gaming commission have no teeth and this kind of thing can and will happen again.

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While I certainly can't speak for everyone, I think this represents the way a lot of people here feel. I mean, really, this makes 100% sense, doesn't it?

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I believe what he actually said was that he doubts AP will go down in flames, so if they are going to survive, he would like to make sure that they are the best they can be going forward.

The KGC has very little teeth. If they revoke AP's license, it will not put AP out of business.

This kind of thing can and may happen again.

Obviously, there are many things that could be learned on the trip, as previously explained in these never ending threads. There's no downside to a couple of the guys going down there.

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Yea. I'm pretty sure no one in the industry who can really do something about WILL do something about it. And if the players themselves largely don't care, then how the hell is a site supposed to be punished? The answer is that it's pretty much impossible to do so without a large number of people consistently going after a site and even if you do that, lots of players would still ignore you and the fish probably don't even care. 2p2 might help with something like that, but I am not convinced it would actually happen.

Anyway, that's just how I feel.

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Nat, I would have to disagree with the fact that a majority of the fish wouldn't even care. The problem is a majority of the fish still do not even know. Unless someone actively looks for news of the scandal on a discussion forum on 2p2 or pocketfives, they will not even know about the scandal or how deep it goes. And, correct me if I'm wrong, most fish don't read online poker forums on 2p2 or pocket fives. The story is not present in the mainstream media at all. That is why I still hold out hope for ESPN, whenever they finally get around to presenting that next article on AP, to place it somewhere on their homepage where the majority of the poker playing community who are still unaware will actually see it!

Giving in to Absolute Poker, trying to see them (pretend to)become a better company from here on out, is basically telling all the pokersites, "I give up! Go ahead and cheat us, do whatever you want, because there's nothing we can do about it!" I know that you're only doing this because you think there's no possible way of seeing Absolute Poker going down. But don't give up just yet. Because the worst thing that can happen to online poker is to see Absolute Poker survive this scandal, even if they truly become a clean, honest company.