Nick at Cake Poker has been reading all the slander directed at us and CAKE Poker will be issuing a statement either late tomorrow or Weds. addressing all the lies and rumors being spread by GPWA and PAL. The statement will confirm that CAP, PAP, myself, Warren and our parent company Affiliate Media Inc. DO NOT have any ownership in Cardspike and never did.
A seperate company that has no connection to PAP or CAP did act as a consultant for a new operator based in Cyrus who owns CardSpike and were doing their best to ensure the program was a success. Because we knew this operator from years ago and because Cake Poker was involved we agreed to list them as an All in Program at PAP and CAP and we recommended Greg Powell for a position with the consulting company as his area of expertise was affiliate management and he really wanted to pursue a new challenge.
In retrospect that was all a mistake and we should have waited until CardSpike was fully operational and had all the bugs worked out of their system before we accepted them at CAP or PAP. In the future it wont happen again as we WONT list new start ups until they have established a minimum three month track record that we can verify.
To this day I still believe all affiliates WILL be paid soon. I believe that there was a data transfer issue from the company that supplied the casino games for CardSpike as I have seen direct evidence of this and Cake agreed there were discrepenices that had to be corrected before any COMMISSIONS could be released. Even the Card Spike operators, the consulting company, CAP and PAP have yet to be paid a dime so all of us are frustrated and on the same waiting list.
Cake has told us that all poker players have been paid from the start by them directly and I trust their organization, so I am assuming thats true. I am hoping that once Cake is satisified that the stats are 100% accurate that everyone elses fund will be released in less then 72 hours. Warren and I had a conversation with Nick and we have his personal comittment to make everyone whole this week.
I suppose Michael and the hate machine he’s assembled will attempt to discredit Cake Poker too so watch for an APCW video on them soon. We get our turn tomorrow.
I also just heard Michael is now trying to weave ASP into this web of lies to somehow damage that product. He hasnt settled on an exact lie or storyline yet, but I bet it will be another phoney soap opera.
Odd that Card Spike never offered ASP as a payment method to their affiliates yet supposedly we have control of all these entities. One would think we would have made ASP our primary payment method, no? Obviously that would the most profitable route to take. But is you check, CardSpike has stated that they pay directly to the affiliates PLAYER account only and ASP is not on the list of approved banking methods.
We DID set up Affiliate Speed Pay (ASP) and we announced that well over a year ago and confirmed that repeatedly, there is no secret there. We did it to ensure US based affiliates had a stable payment platform to receive their commissions. This happened directly after the great fund seizure by Neteller and we were doing our best to provide a safe alternative to the eWallets which offered player account and affiliate accounts mixed together together. I am being told now that Michael is trying to twist that positive iniative by CAP into something sinister too or imply we are hiding our association with ASP. Made up charges and rumors again!
Like the rest of his bullshit he has nothing for proof other then allegations from faceless people that he feels confident in. He is willing to attempt to damage our business and community based on heresay?
I suppose if his gardner tells him we rigged the 2009 election of Barack Obama he would run forth with that lie too. Its getting silly the level he and a few others are willing to stoop to.
I am being muzzled by our attornies right now but believe me when and if I get the chance to comment publically I will talk and GPWA will be exposed for the jealous and petty liars that they are.
Oh and while I am on a roll… Shame on Gambling 911 for not investigating anything or questioning us before jumping on the rumor bandwagon. I understand that sensational stories draw clicks, but thats no excuse for turning on a former colleague who they did business with. Jenny and Chris KNOW us better and we paid them thousands of dollars to help promote a number of our events. Now this is the thanks we get?
I will quit rambling, but I am worn out and cant sleep and just had to vent somewhere about these endless attacks and lies.