For a long time now we've been following the Microgaming Scandal on the popular Two Plus Two forums. One member there who reportedly lost a substantial sum during the collapse of Tusk which Microgaming has publicly washed it's hands of (see the APCW show in our previous post) is trying to keep the public informed. He made the MicrogamingScandal.Com which currently points to the relevant story on 2+2.
Well shockingly rather than engage in sensible discussion with the likes of the APCW or other representatives of the poker community, Microgaming have chosen to attack one of the victims of their allegedly slack network management that allowed Tusk and Eurolinx to allegedly operate without sufficient licenses and without appropriate player protection.
I've received a cease and desist regarding microgamingscandal.com. Can anyone help me out with this, or should I seek the advice of a lawyer?
skier_5 (on 2+2)
Now I'm not going to rehash an old story by going over everything in detail but I feel like their stance on the APCW report that they are just a software provider is unacceptable. As many of us know who have played on the network in the past, Microgaming security preside over decisions on refunds in network error situations, collusion, cheating etc. Yet when big money is involved and one of their skins is cheating they expect to be able to just turn away and players to not feel cheated and confused? Come on.
Players need to feel safe and secure to keep the flow of fish into our games and keep poker healthy. Networks making it easy for anyone who feels like it to open a poker room and not carrying out sufficient checks isn't something that's ever going to help. There's plenty of good safe poker rooms out there on networks that take security very seriously and don't seek to turn away when things go wrong.
