Fossilman's Account Hacked?

[PairTheBoard]

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Are you KIDDING ?!?! Standard Oil, US Steel,Microsoft, Walmart NONE OF THOSE COMPANIES ARE COERCIVE ? Microsoft demanded that PC makers include office on their PC's and and hide the costs from consumers. This forced Lotus out of business.... Microsoft giving away Explorer and forcing Netscape practically out of business.... None of those are coercive acts ? Wal-Mart driving local business out of by under cutting them, then closing those stores to consolodate the market to one regional wal mart... Thats not coercive ? come on... quit living in republican dreamland...

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... and now you can add the WPT with their $189,000 in profits last year.

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They report being up over $6 million through 2 Quarters of 2006 in CardPlayer News Archives.

PairTheBoard

[totalfocus1]

never said he wasnt good just sayin his etiquette on stars was poor and bite me I have my opinion and you have yours and i dont spell chk while im 6 tabling

[Knockwurst]

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What is the main point of the lawsuit ? To get the WPT to get rid of the 'using players images for any purpose they want' or to not allow them to lock up casinos like the Bellagio etc for big buyin TV tournaments ? Does it have anything to do with the [censored] final table structure as well ? All of the above and more ? Someone please fully explain to me .. thx ..

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Yeah, they're suing the WPT because the blinds move up too fast.

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nh

[bluesbassman]

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I thought Daniel was smart enough to understand that maybe he should educate himself on an issue before jumping to (and publicizing) a conclusion. Maybe I was wrong.

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For what it's worth -- and it may be relevant here -- Daniel is also a young-earth creationist.

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If that's true, then Fossilman is correct: Daniel N is stoopid. I therefore doubt DN is a YEC.

[PokerBob]

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Greg, your points on DN are well said and make sense, but your opening point is totally lame.

You say it doesn't bother you and only make an issue of it because it bothers other players, but then say it's okay to call them tools because they're acting like it. It's one or the other. You can't have it both ways.

To be as credible about this as you were about DN, you have to pick one and it looks like it bothers you and you just a called a tool a tool. The sugar coating doesn't hold water.

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fly to north carolina and kill him.

[Lawman007]

What in the world is a young-earth creationist? [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img]

[bluesbassman]

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What in the world is a young-earth creationist? [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img]

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Similar to a Flat-Earther. A YEC is someone who rejects virtually all of science, and thinks the Earth is only about 6000-10000 years old. (We know for a fact that the Earth is about 4.55 billion years old.)

[Lawman007]

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What in the world is a young-earth creationist? [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img]

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Similar to a Flat-Earther. A YEC is someone who rejects virtually all of science, and thinks the Earth is only about 6000-10000 years old. (We know for a fact that the Earth is about 4.55 billion years old.)

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Are you serious? [img]/images/graemlins/shocked.gif[/img] Anybody got a link to some proof that Negreanu believes this?

[MicroBob]

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Despite Raymer's spin, they haven't put Raymer's image on a billboard and used it to try to sell Coke or something.

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No they haven't.
And Raymer never said that they did.

The fact is, the WPT could do this IF THEY WANTED TO because of the contract.

And the players are just supposed to take the WPT on their word that they will be listened to if they are bothered by the way in which their likeness is being used.

But the WPT wouldn't have to listen if they didn't want to because they make the participants sign the contract.


If the WPT isn't going to mis-use a player's likeness in such a way then why not reflect that in the contract?

The fact that they refuse to adjust the contract in such a way and instead say, "Oh, don't worry about it. Just tell us if there's a problem and we super-duper promise we'll do what you want and just forget about the contract" is somewhat disquieting and I don't blame them for that aspect of the lawsuit.

But there is logic to the argument that "if you don't like how they do it...there are plenty of other tournaments you can play instead."


evidently some of the casinos that are interested in running other tournaments at other times are unable to because of their ties to the WPT and they get kind of pinned-down.

Obviously these casinos probably shouldn't have signed such a contract in the first place.
Seems to me that their potential for future big tourneys wouldn't be there in the first place without the WPT.
So I don't have quite as much sympathy in regards to this issue either. As Daniel points out, if you want to hold a big tourney, you can do it elsewhere (although the concept of the Gold Coast holding a big-time tourney struck me as pretty amusing).

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Annie Duke chatting on UB right now.. She says Daniel is making threats toward her and Howard, threatning to turn them in for tax evasion. Annie says him and Lyle are close and he's getting fed all his crap from the top.