GMML!!!!!

[flomo]

what ever happened with the youtube thing?
you win?

[givememyleg]

8 days since the contest is over and i have heard nothing except this:

"PlayersOnly hasn't announced a winner of the contest."

nooo idea!

[flomo]

those bastards

[flomo]

the chick saw you on the can and doesn't want to go out with you

[bigspenda73]

Leg has already promised that I get to take her out

he just gets the measly $10k, I get a whore for a night

[mrhappy333]

I'd take the 10k and buy my own whores.

[Xianti]

I sent an email to Larry about this yesterday, Carl. I'm awaiting a response now.

[flomo]

response

"rigged"

[ChrisBCritter]

GMML or GGML?

Discuss...


Take it down! Your competition was a joke...

[gamblogger]

Sorry for the delay, but PlayersOnly has selected a winner in the YouTube video contest and the winner has been contacted. Sorry it wasn't Carl. Once the details of the night-out-with-Carrie-Stoup part of the prize have been worked out there will be a formal announcement from PO.

Again, I'm sorry it took awhile but the contest was legit and the prize really is being awarded. PO isn't that kind of company. I'll send you pics from the night out!

In the meantime... Would a promo code for a free roll at the Sportsbook dot com poker room be any consolation? Sportsbook, PO's sister site, has lots of sports players with tons of cash to burn and no idea how to play poker. If you feel like a little fishing trip this afternoon, use the promo code FIRST100. There aren't many players registered so good chance to pick up $2500. Starts at 3:30 EST today.

[bigspenda73]

I want to see the $10k in the person's hands while he's on the date and I want him to be holding up 2 forms of identification at the same time while his grandmother is standing next to him confirming it is in fact, a non-employee of Player Only.

You guys should be ashamed of how you handled this contest. Extremely poor business. The fact that you hold thousands of individuals money on your site is scary due to the fact that it took you nearly a month past the contest end date to pick a winner. I can only hope players do not have to wait this long to receive cash outs, customer service answers, and the like.

I, for one, would like to see a record of the winner's submission date and a written explanation from someone as to why the committee took so long in proclaiming a victor.

[mrhappy333]

rigged for sure

[givememyleg]

lol

[wesrman]

Sorry for the delay, but PlayersOnly has selected a winner in the YouTube video contest and the winner has been contacted. Sorry it wasn't Carl. Once the details of the night-out-with-Carrie-Stoup part of the prize have been worked out there will be a formal announcement from PO.

Again, I'm sorry it took awhile but the contest was legit and the prize really is being awarded. PO isn't that kind of company. I'll send you pics from the night out!

In the meantime... Would a promo code for a free roll at the Sportsbook dot com poker room be any consolation? Sportsbook, PO's sister site, has lots of sports players with tons of cash to burn and no idea how to play poker. If you feel like a little fishing trip this afternoon, use the promo code FIRST100. There aren't many players registered so good chance to pick up $2500. Starts at 3:30 EST today.

Gay.

[swiggidy]

Where's the link to the winning video?

/temporarily reserving judgment

[ProZachNation]

blah blah

you look like a douche, ban please.

[jyms]

Here's the link to the winner guys. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9C9OeB-Wjc


What a fucking joke. This " winning" video is not only bad, it's unfunny and tasteless. There is nothing to do with poker, money or being a "player" at all in the whole video, other than the title. Your sleazy ass site wants to use this submission as a winning representation of the contest you ran for 'poker" players. Good luck. I for one will be contacting the Cake Network. I for one will never play on your site. I am also going to base my decision on the whole Cake network after I receive a response.

By the way. This has nothing to do with Carl not winning, it has everything to do with the video you just picked and the way the contest was run. I think there is something up. Good luck. You've lost everyone on this site, that I can guarantee.

[mrhappy333]

wow, that video is terrible. There is nothing good about it. And to have some guy win that is jerking off? def, tasteless.

seems rigged

[givememyleg]

he he

[boost]

lol I havent even seen carls vid, but that one sucks so bad.

link to carls vid? Im curious now.

[jyms]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLBJ48bjQ8U

[swiggidy]

lol I havent even seen carls vid, but that one sucks so bad.

link to carls vid? Im curious now.

WTF, it's not like you ignore the commune.

Anyway, the winning video is complete garbage. Easily worse than my disc hosing last year.

[badgers]

Wow gamblogger your comments on the old thread were so unproffessional it boggles the mind...

[pantherhound]

every time i see 'GMML ' I think back to the excruciating pain of Chedar and of the hebrew letter 'gimel'.
Any jews here who think the same? btw i really need to do some work

[Anosmic]

So, wait, am I understanding this right? The winner of the competition goes on a date with this woman, right?

And when he goes on the date and she asks how he won, he'll say that he made a video of himself jerking off to her youtube video?

What's really cool is that this "promotion" has left us all detesting the organisers... and I've only just heard of them.

Man... there's a marketing director somewhere who really earned his salary this month....

[spoonitnow]

Sorry for the delay, but PlayersOnly has selected a winner in the YouTube video contest and the winner has been contacted. Sorry it wasn't Carl. Once the details of the night-out-with-Carrie-Stoup part of the prize have been worked out there will be a formal announcement from PO.

Again, I'm sorry it took awhile but the contest was legit and the prize really is being awarded. PO isn't that kind of company. I'll send you pics from the night out!

In the meantime... Would a promo code for a free roll at the Sportsbook dot com poker room be any consolation? Sportsbook, PO's sister site, has lots of sports players with tons of cash to burn and no idea how to play poker. If you feel like a little fishing trip this afternoon, use the promo code FIRST100. There aren't many players registered so good chance to pick up $2500. Starts at 3:30 EST today.

I highly suggest that you quit your job and pull a fucking Brandi.

[fat-b]

wat

[a500lbgorilla]

gmmls video is pretty damn good.

[spoonitnow]

wat

wat

[wesrman]

wat

wat

wat

[pantherhound]

wat

wat

wat

WHAT

[jyms]

Yea guys, let's turn this into another Commune joke. GMML just got lol'd out of $10K. I think the guys at Players Only and Cake should know how we as a community feel. A few more voices would be nice.

[spoonitnow]

Yea guys, let's turn this into another Commune joke. GMML just got lol'd out of $10K. I think the guys at Players Only and Cake should know how we as a community feel. A few more voices would be nice.

Sorry for the delay, but PlayersOnly has selected a winner in the YouTube video contest and the winner has been contacted. Sorry it wasn't Carl. Once the details of the night-out-with-Carrie-Stoup part of the prize have been worked out there will be a formal announcement from PO.

Again, I'm sorry it took awhile but the contest was legit and the prize really is being awarded. PO isn't that kind of company. I'll send you pics from the night out!

In the meantime... Would a promo code for a free roll at the Sportsbook dot com poker room be any consolation? Sportsbook, PO's sister site, has lots of sports players with tons of cash to burn and no idea how to play poker. If you feel like a little fishing trip this afternoon, use the promo code FIRST100. There aren't many players registered so good chance to pick up $2500. Starts at 3:30 EST today.

I highly suggest that you quit your job and pull a fucking Brandi.

[swiggidy]

I loled the first time

[badgers]

Relax GMML... Look at the clips that have been entered and it's pretty obvious who's gonna win

PlayersOnly just wants a couple more weeks to get a bit more publicity for the contest... And to come up with a great night out for you and Carrie Stroup!

Wat

[Ash256]

Initially reading this I had it down as poor sportsmanship from the FTR crowd (sorry guys! )because an inferior video had won.. Then I looked at the history of the contest, emphasis being on this.


This is completely and utterly unprofessional from Players Only. I also don't think they're aware of just how fucking difficult it is for a talented creative to get a break within the industry and just how huge it is to think that you're about to win a contest.

gamblogger & Players Only: If you weren't 100% that you had a winner then you should've STFU and NOT strongly hinted that Carl had won.

For me, this is not about the possibility of a rigged bs competition, this is about pure professionalism (or lack thereof). Having seen this, I will never put my money anywhere near Players Only Poker because the representative has shown a complete lack of intelligence, foresight and business aptitude. This is the sort of conduct I would expect of a business run by a 15 year old. Why should I trust them with my money?

As FTR, we need to remember just how powerful a force we are within the online poker landscape:-

- We are loyal to the FTR brand
- We are either professional poker players or wannabe professional poker players
- We have the largest MGR of any player type (As a guess I'd say one of us is worth 20 Sunday Million donkament types)


I suggest we give Players Only Poker 72 hours in which to repair the damage it has done however it can, and if they fail to do so we:

- Cut off all affiliate ties with Players Only Poker.
- IP ban gamblogger
- Mass inform Cake of what's happened (including mention how good an MGR we have and that Players Only Poker is a representative of the Cake Network)
- Make sure no-one we know goes near Players Only Poker or Cake Poker.


Also, if you have anything negative to say about Players Only Poker make sure you put their whole name in so maybe we can get this high up in the Google rankings

[spoonitnow]

This is seriously the biggest crock of shit I've seen in the online poker world since the AP scandal.

[mrhappy333]

I was about to sign up for Rakeback with CAKE too.

[swiggidy]

conspiracy theory. Maybe they gave the win to someone else because they thought leg would put up a fight about the $10k prize changing to a bonus?

[spoonitnow]

wat

wat

In the butt

[boost]

link to gmml video plz

[a500lbgorilla]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLBJ48bjQ8U

[boost]

hah, nice

[givememyleg]

you guys are all awesome. what a crock to shit i've had to deal with the past 2 months.

doubt there is anything i can do though - so weird to be led on like that. it's so shady with all the things he said to me via private messages on youtube in that regard.. stuff like "well i know who is going win :wink wink:" how unprofessional ... also, the actual winner of the contest wasn't even in the contest when the initial deadline was over... they extended it TWICE.

on top of everything (believe me, there's more) it took them 25 days to pick between THREE videos. yes only me and 2 other people entered this contest for $10k... talk about bad marketing.

when they had ftr post the "press release" that i was likely to win, think about what they did. all they did was use ftr's traffic to attempt to get more people to enter the contest because they were embarrassed they only had 2 entries after 2+ months (there was only 2 videos at this time). they made it seem like i was sooo certain to win that it didn't matter who entered, when in actuality it just hurt my chances of winning. why use ftr for a means to promote this instead of their own?

everything about this pisses me off. shady poker site ran by shady people. it's rigged but man, what can i even do?

[mrhappy333]

This reminds me of the emails I get about winning a lottery in Africa

[wesrman]

everything about this pisses me off. shady poker site ran by shady people. it's rigged but man, what can i even do?

Spam their email with tranny porn ldo.

[spoonitnow]

They should give you fucking 100% rakeback or something for life, Jesus Christ.

[bikes]

Winning submission is a giant FAIL.

[bigspenda73]

so there's a Players Only banner on the top of FTR

I would hope that our admins would do something about this...

[spoonitnow]

so there's a Players Only banner on the top of FTR

I would hope that our admins would do something about this...

Goddamn it spenda stop making sense.

By the way go comment here: http://www.flopturnriver.com/phpBB2/...ks-t70230.html

Also do you have AIM/MSN/Yahoo?

[flomo]

fake poker

[boost]

players only has paid ftr for ad space. You expect ftr to take down the banner? What are they gonna do, give back the money?

[bigspenda73]

sure, if it's possible

setting an example that unethical practices will not be tolerated seems like something FTR would want to initiate.

[jyms]

players only has paid ftr for ad space. You expect ftr to take down the banner? What are they gonna do, give back the money?

No they haven't. As far as I know FTR has to get those banners and put them in place. It's about affiliate revenue and FTR makes money on sign ups to Players Only same as we do with RB accounts. It's the same as you referring someone to your rakeback affiliate. You make some coin and they get there share. Players only is a drop in the bucket FTR. Don't be fooled by what having even the smaller of some poker forums remove all Players Only revenue. Having nobody from this site ever on their site is costly when they only have a couple thousand members as is.

I would hope that FTR would make a stand in this debacle to defend one of it's more active and senior members and a part time employee of their site.

[spoonitnow]

players only has paid ftr for ad space. You expect ftr to take down the banner? What are they gonna do, give back the money?

No they haven't. As far as I know FTR has to get those banners and put them in place. It's about affiliate revenue and FTR makes money on sign ups to Players Only same as we do with RB accounts. It's the same as you referring someone to your rakeback affiliate. You make some coin and they get there share. Players only is a drop in the bucket FTR. Don't be fooled by what having even the smaller of some poker forums remove all Players Only revenue. Having nobody from this site ever on their site is costly when they only have a couple thousand members as is.

I would hope that FTR would make a stand in this debacle to defend one of it's more active and senior members and a part time employee of their site.

[Xianti]

- Make sure no-one we know goes near Players Only Poker or Cake Poker.

You guys should know that, although PO happens to be on the Cake network, PO and Cake are different entities and their marketing departments are separate, with no knowledge of what the other company is doing on the promotion front.

We've contacted our rep at Cake Poker to make them aware of this situation.

Also, we are re-evaluating our affiliation with PO and will make a decision shortly.

[swiggidy]

It makes sense that they're separate/different, but they're still affiliated. I wouldn't think FTR breaking ties with cake makes sense, although it would be sweet if cake kicked out PO.

Also, we are re-evaluating our affiliation with PO and will make a decision shortly.

lol, business talk. If you decision is anything but discontinuing relations it will create an awfully entertaining thread.

[wesrman]

lol, business talk. If you decision is anything but discontinuing relations it will create an awfully entertaining thread.

QFT.

[spoonitnow]

- Make sure no-one we know goes near Players Only Poker or Cake Poker.

You guys should know that, although PO happens to be on the Cake network, PO and Cake are different entities and their marketing departments are separate, with no knowledge of what the other company is doing on the promotion front.

Weird thing is I woke up this morning and immediately thought the same thing and was about to post about it.

[Ash256]

- Make sure no-one we know goes near Players Only Poker or Cake Poker.

You guys should know that, although PO happens to be on the Cake network, PO and Cake are different entities and their marketing departments are separate, with no knowledge of what the other company is doing on the promotion front.

We've contacted our rep at Cake Poker to make them aware of this situation.

Also, we are re-evaluating our affiliation with PO and will make a decision shortly.

coolcool

[bode]

i, for one, am boycotting players only!

[wesrman]

i, for one, am boycotting players only!

[Warpe]

conspiracy theory. Maybe they gave the win to someone else because they thought leg would put up a fight about the $10k prize changing to a bonus?

+1

[jyms]

I will never play on players only and will berate any forum members that do or inquire about the site.

[Warpe]

btw, should you feel the urge:

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm...ndid=145840930

[jyms]

I would wait. Give him a chance to fix it with another fucking nickle and dime freeroll

[bigspenda73]

conspiracy theory. Maybe they gave the win to someone else because they thought leg would put up a fight about the $10k prize changing to a bonus?

+1

[ttanaka]

IMO this promotion started with good intentions but clearly turned shady once the contest was not producing the intended turnout, buzz, and traffic they expected.

The continued extensions of the deadline were desperate attempts to produce more results from this promotion.

The change in the terms and conditions of the contest was another fuckin weak ass move to save some money on a poorly planned and executed promotion.

Finally, they probably just had one of their own employees/partners/bitches create a video so they could announce that one the winner and be done with their fuck up.

This is all my conjecture, but I'm no idiot and believe this is the most likely scenario.

FTR will no longer be advertising or promoting Players Only. Fuck that shit.

[jyms]

Very impressed, thank you Admins

[badgers]

[bigspenda73]

mad respek yo

[Galapogos]

What a cool site.

[wesrman]

The change in the terms and conditions of the contest was another fuckin weak ass move to save some money on a poorly planned and executed promotion.

Finally, they probably just had one of their own employees/partners/bitches create a video so they could announce that one the winner and be done with their fuck up.

FTR will no longer be advertising or promoting Players Only. Fuck that shit.

Fuckin right. NH sir.

[bode]

[givememyleg]

ftr, coolest site ever?