Since you all read this at Absolute Poker

[burningyen]

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While they are at it, they can also donate the cost of the bogus "truck lease for a year" drawing at the same 2006 WSOP, where the AP employee rigged it for her friend to win. They split the monetary value. This is well-known within the company.

At some point if AP doesn't clear all this popcorn and lease stuff up, I will just come out and name the employee. I'd rather not, but I'm so disgusted by the charity thing that they deserve it.

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I think you've already narrowed it down a bit.

[Tuco]

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While they are at it, they can also donate the cost of the bogus "truck lease for a year" drawing at the same 2006 WSOP, where the AP employee rigged it for her friend to win. They split the monetary value. This is well-known within the company.

At some point if AP doesn't clear all this popcorn and lease stuff up, I will just come out and name the employee. I'd rather not, but I'm so disgusted by the charity thing that they deserve it.

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I think you've already narrowed it down a bit.

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Intentional to motivate AP. Doubt it will work as they don't seem to be the sharpest knives in the drawer.

Tuco.

[Idi the Nigerian]

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Firstly, thank you for crediting my AP account with $7497.

With that said, none of us have heard anything more about the alleged 2006 WSOP popcorn story and none of that money making it to charity.

If someone from Absolute can come in here and tell me which charity received your popcorn dollars and after contacting them I am satisfied that it is in fact a real charity and they did receive your money from selling $1 bags of popcorn

Anxiously awaiting further details on this.

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My friends,

I would like to take this opportunity to state for the record that following the 2006 WSOP, Absolute Poker was kind enough to donate their popcorn dollars to The Idi Fund. Scott Tom personally delivered the cheque to our offices in Lagos, Nigeria.

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I am willing to donate every cent you just gave me, to that charity.

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Please make the cheque out to "The Idi Fund c/o Idi The Nigerian", my friend. Your donation will enable us to purchase many computers for the next generation of young Nigerians in order for them to be able to pursue exciting careers in e-commerce.

Your friend,

Idi

[bigshowmack]

Wow.

Absolute Poker related POTY right there folks. Signed, sealed, and delivered.

[N 82 50 24]

With regards to what has become known as "popcorngate" -- I've recently been filled in on a number of the details. While I did not get the information from a confidential source, the person who gave it to me would prefer that his name is not used here. However, he is currently pretty high up in management in AP and is a credible source.

There are a number of issues to address.

First, AP made the donation to "Sunrise Children’s Foundation" via wire transfer to a bank in Las Vegas. Not the best website I've seen, but you can check it out here: http://www.sunrisechildren.org. Also, feel free to verify the info with people there.

Second, the donation was not made until February of 2007. The guy who I spoke with admits that the timeframe for the donation was not ideal considering that the donations were received in July/August-ish of 2006. I'm told that it was largely an administrative screw-up due to a changeover in marketing companies (ie, the people who ran it). Regardless of the explanation, obviously it should have been made sooner.

Third, because Schneids was generous enough to offer to donate his refund to charity, AP is going to match that offer and donate that amount to charity in the near future. This is in addition to the money raised and AP is going to do so regardless of whether Schneids follows through with his offer.

Fourth, AP is going to run a charity tournament of some kind on their site where the rake will be collected and contributed to a charity (not sure if it will be the same one). In addition, AP is going to match the collected rake, effectively doubling the contribution from the community. I assume details will be announced at some point in the near future.

[SoulPower]

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Third, because Schneids was generous enough to offer to donate his refund to charity, AP is going to match that offer and donate that amount to charity in the near future.

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Here's a suggestion - a favorite charity of the 2+2 Forum posters and Barry Greenstien, Childrens, Incorporated, makes mention of a new project in Costa Rica in their latest newsletter:



We would be more than happy to get you in contact with the right people.

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Also, AP is willing to let Schneids determine the charitable recipient of the 7-something K.

In addition, the tourney donations will go to the same place.

If Schneids is okay with it, we can put up a poll on 2p2 to determine where the money should go or how it should be split up (if at all).

I'll wait for Schneids to sign on to see what he says about it.

[mntbikr15]

This is complete [censored]

AP stop talking through Nat, get your pathetic asses on here and answer some [censored] questions

[coordi]

Nat is legit so if they are really willing to do this, its an awesome step.

EOS

[pokergrader]

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This is complete [censored]

AP stop talking through Nat, get your pathetic asses on here and answer some [censored] questions

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So true. Having a 2+2 intermediary giving away all the information is just a clever way to segment the level of information players receive. 2+2ers get a leaked confidential admittance of fault and a fancy plan where a 2+2 member gets to pick the charity! How awesome!

Then the 90% of users who aren't 2+2ers will never know about it (because it would require them to both read about it somewhere and trust that this unknown forum person is trustworthy), until there is a PR release that they are doing a charity tournament and donated XX,XXX to a charity that one of their players picked. How great, this company is super nice! This obviously is completely misrepresenting what actually happened.

But if you get an actual statement from AP:
a) It is presumably already more public
b) There is no trust issue for the common player, since it is coming from within the company

So Nat I am happy you are providing information to the people, but IMO it is better if you keep quiet regardless of what you know, and let the outrage (perhaps false outrage) build until AP is forced to say something officially.

And this is just a wacky theory of mine that may or may not make sense. I am just coming from the knowledge that there is a room somewhere in the AP offices where all these people are getting together trying to spin the PR for this whole thing in a positive way, and I think we are making it too easy for them, because as far as I'm aware there has been no official statement of any wrongdoing that hasn't been complete crap. [/rant]