Gib & Korn The Giant Douche
Back from Gib now and had a really good time. It was nice to put a face to all the people I talk to day in and day out. It was actually a pretty awesome place; Beautiful weather, everything was pretty cheap and amazingly close to a ton of other places. A pretty good hub to have for sure.
On my last night I went over into Spain into a town/city ? called La Linea. Got a taxi to the border, get out and flash your passport and your in Spain (if its British they’re only interested in the cover – even when you go to airports it seems British passports are pretty much golden and don’t get scrutinized at all. I’m not complaining ofcourse – just saying.)
I went up the rock a few days before I left with a good friend who lives in one of the nicest apartments I’ve ever seen ! Anyway apart from taking a stupid route and not taking any water I really enjoyed the views. From the top you could see Morocco, all of Gib and Spain. It was pretty amazing when thinking of how geographically close these 3 places are but, how culturally different they are. I mean Gib is just sunny Britain (nothing wrong with that!).
I stayed a little longer in Gib hoping to meet Korn from PokerStrategy. I met a community manager in a bar one night and Korn seemed to have a big problem with me talking to him. I was accused of soliciting him on 2+2 which is so LOL and I’d welcome any legal action. Its just complete unsubstantiated shit. I thought he was a great guy when talking to him and will admit to being on the hustle and trying to get him a VIP deal through iPokerVIP even although he was wearing a PS hoody but, unfortnatley the main thing that came accross in the conversation was how keen I was to meet Korn and learn in depth about him as a person and their business model.
Ofcourse it never happend and anyone wanting to discuss Korn’s warped view of the industry has to get their hands dirty in the threads which ultimatley resolves very little. People end up getting flamed and more entrenched in their original views. A face to face meeting would have been far more constructive.
Anyway it was the fact I was accused on 2+2 of doing a ton of illegal things and being dodgy which is just rubbish. I wire thousands to players every week and I’ve never heard anyone complain concerning the service I offer them.
Overall Gib was awesome and I was really pleased to meet people from Victor Chandler who are top guys. An affiliate or a player couldn’t ask for anymore. I urge everyone to try and qualify for the beat victor challenge – you’ll have a great time.
As for iPoker – the network is still recovering and the software is being fixed. I really hope things turn around – I’d hate for the market to become even more top heavy. Although if it did and Stars and FTP got a slap on the wrist things would change so fast I could maybe establish myself as one of the big dogs. Playtech are a big company and I doubt they’ll let a market like this slip away.
Anyway that’s me for now
