Let me start by giving everyone a brief refresher course on the history of these Poker Tournaments:
Jan 14 - Oprano Poker posts that they will be having Poker Tournaments on Thursdays:
http://www.greenguysboard.com/board/...&threadid=3869
We let this spam slide because we are on good terms with Oprano
Jan 21 - We are reminded of the next "free" Poker Tournament:
http://www.greenguysboard.com/board/...&threadid=4049
We let this spam slide because we are on good terms with Oprano
Jan 28 - Greenguy & Jim are invited to have a "free" weekly Poker Tournament for our board members:
http://www.greenguysboard.com/board/...&threadid=4285
This is a very cool idea & we of course accept. Many Greenguy & Jim board members register an account with Choice Poker via Oprano's referral link.
Feb 3 - 1st Greenguy & Jim Poker Tournament happens & about 40 non-board members show up because the password is public to everyone, regardless of if they are a board member or not. This does not sit will with Jim & me, thinking that if we were to give away any prizes, the tournament would have to be for board members only (we see no need to have a contest for non-board members)
I do decide to give away a prize of a main page link for 1 week to the person that knocks me out of the tournament.
Feb 10th - 2nd Poker Tournament happens, the person that knocks me out & wins the link on my main page sells it on GFY.
Feb 17th - 3rd Poker Tournament happens & we adopt the policy of releasing the password for the tournament during the Radio Show. This fails as the password we were given was so easy to guess, that 30 people were registered for the tournament before the radio show went on the air.
Feb 24th - 4th Poker Tournament happens, we have 40 or so people playing & most are board members. Jim & I are happy
Mar 2nd - 5th Poker Tournament happens & many have trouble logging in due to some sort of glitch that made everyone verify their email address before they could participate in the tournament.
Mar 7th - We are told that Choice Poker will now be moving to Adult Poker Tour & that everyone has to jump thru hoops & register with a new username, email address, etc. We are also told that there will now be a charge for having the "free" tournaments & that an email is on it's way to me with details.
Mar 9th - Well, we got the email - to put it very mildly, we are quite pissed off.
We've been asked to put up at least $1000 to continue to have our weekly Poker Tournament. With this $1000 also comes advertising on the Adult Poker Tour site & newsletter, which we have no fucking need for what-so-ever.
Here's what pisses me off about all this:
1 - We were asked to have a free poker tournament & sent many people to the Choice Poker site without any referral codes that Jim & I would get credit for.
2 - The referral program for Adult Poker Tour is "coming soon" so now, if we were to continue to have these weekly tournaments, we would get no credit for referring people to the new poker site.
3 - To give away these tournaments for free for 6 weeks & then have the fucking balls to ask for money after we promoted it & sent what I have to assume are a few paying customers, is just plain WRONG!
So, based on all this, there will not be a Greenguy & Jim Poker Tournament tonight nor will there ever be a tournament sponsored by us on Adult Poker Tour.
Jim & I will be looking into some other online poker sites to see if we can have a nice free shits & giggles tournament each week - because to us this is all just shits & giggles.
If any of you want to continue to play poker at either of these online sites, be my guest. But think about who you are doing business with the next time you log in.
Sorry for such a long drawn out rant, but this shit sucks my left fucking nut!