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Regarding 4/6 Mega Monthly tournament

By Barry
Apr 07, 08 07:08 PM

Dear SpadeClub Member,

As many of you may know, Kristy “Guesss” Arnett, a Card Player employee competed in and won the $40,000 Mega Monthly tournament.

Kristy started as an intern with Card Player, and is now a full time writer and video personality for Card Player magazine and Card Player TV. She is a paying member of SpadeClub, and will be the first person to tell you that she stayed up until 4 am earning her red token. She plans to use part of her winnings to pay for another year of membership. I support and congratulate Kristy in her tremendous accomplishment.

As the CEO of a poker company, I encourage employees to participate in poker related events. When Card Player Media LLC launched SpadeClub I made the decision to allow Card Player employees to participate. Card Player and SpadeClub are two separate divisions and reside in separate office buildings. The SpadeClub Terms and Conditions, Section 3.4c, clearly state that only Card Player Media LLC employees that work directly for SpadeClub are ineligible to participate and win prizes. Kristy does not work for SpadeClub in any capacity and I am thrilled that she had the opportunity, like many others, to win big and risk nothing! Check back on CardPlayer.com later this week to read the interview with SpadeClub’s latest champion.

See you at the tables,

Barry Shulman
Card Player CEO


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COMMENTS

POSTED BY:
agent86nfang

Apr 08, 08 01:31 PM

I appreciate you coming on and making a statement Barry. I look foward to playing with you again.

POSTED BY:
lQQkin

Apr 08, 08 10:58 AM

Thank you for issuing a statement regarding this tournament......... It left a VERY SOUR taste in my mouth, that an employee anyway related to your company was playing in this event. I feel it is unethical and leaves doubt in other players minds about the fairness of the cash payouts. (as you can see I posted it everywhere) I hope you will reconsider this in the future
HOWEVER..............................I respect your rules, however you interpret them, and I respect the fact that you issu

POSTED BY:
CRUDEFINDER

Apr 08, 08 08:04 AM

No employee of CP should be eligable to play on Spadeclub, ever. It just looks bad and you know it, so quit with the coverup. She made it worse with the profile coverup and subsequent whitewash on CP forum by spadeclub.

POSTED BY:
Lanarian

Apr 07, 08 10:53 PM

Thanks for addressing this Barry.
Also, Congrats to Guesss!

POSTED BY:
rat33

Apr 07, 08 08:36 PM

well said and i think guess got cheated enough out of her win to have to put up with all the bs after such a great accomplishment.WTG GUESS my apologies for all the bad comments said u deserve much better than this for such a great game rat33 (respect at table)

POSTED BY:
AA

Apr 07, 08 08:12 PM

Barry, at the very least... Every employee should have disclosed their position with company within their profiles. We all find it extremely suspicious that Guesss just happen to beat 1000 other players to win the 2nd big tourney here. While many good players received badbeats to get knocked out, she seems to be one of the players giving them. While it is reasonable to have employees working at a poker magazine play poker, having them play here is a conflict of interests. There are plenty of liv

POSTED BY:
HodgeD

Apr 07, 08 07:53 PM

Well Said.

POSTED BY:
DrunknMunky

Apr 07, 08 07:28 PM

Barry,

Thank you for explaing this, but I don't think there is a problem in my opinion.

The fact that you, your wife, and your son play here is a nice touch. It is your site, you should be able to!

I also have no problem with ANY cardplayer employee playing @ SpadeClub. What's the difference??

I have enjoyed talking with you @ the tables, I love SpadeClub, and look forward to busting you out of a 5k or 40k when we get Heads-Up someday soon!

Thank you,

Tony "Z"
DrunknMunky

POSTED BY:
ZZANGELZZ

Apr 07, 08 07:26 PM

As you know alot of uprour came from this and I personally am glad to know thats all it is.I enjoy spadeclub and along with many others im sure am glad to know we all have that same shot.As for kristy's well deserved win hats off and good job!!

POSTED BY:
SuckerPhish

Apr 07, 08 07:20 PM

Works for me. Thanks for your response to this hot topic.