T6 Poker: More questions from the community, Tony G responds
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Questions continue to arise surrounding the credibility of new online poker room T6 poker. While there have yet to be any specific and substantial accusations of impropriety raised against the company, an apparently growing group of player are citing numerous concerns regarding the company’s security, financial policies and marketing techniques.
The story so far: T6 signs poker pro Tony G to endorse their room as part of a broad marketing push that sees the company featured prominently on PokerNews. PokerWiki posts an article about T6 that cites possible issues with ownership transparency, legality and company stability. Highlights:
Other notable characteristics of T6Poker include:
1. The client is downloaded from an anonymous file sharing site (Rapid Share),
2. The company’s Internet domain is registered anonymously,
3. The company (AlistonPrice) can be found on the warning list of the Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority (Finansinspektionen)[4] but changed its name in November-December 2007 to 1oz Group.
Tony G then responds in a blog post where readers raise additional facts and allegations in the comments. Excerpt from reader comments:
This site has an amazing number of warning signs:
Its top leadership have been proven (and admitted to) having run companies that have been scamming before. They’re on at least 2 seperate nations warning lists of unserious companies to avoid.
They originally supplied their (amazingly bad) software from rapidshare, a known and unreliable site mostly serving free pornography. Not professional in the slightest.
Freerolls have been continuesly removed, shifted or non-paying, after promises to the contrary.
People who played up a good amount of dollars, suddenly found everything gone on 01/01/2008. Strange.
Please respond to this, or stop sullying your already bad name even further. Oh, btw, dont use your own website to post an “unbiased” interview with the first scammer. It makes you look even more of a scapegoat.
A thread questioning the credibility of the site from an affiliate perspective popped up at Poker Affiliate World, and another thread claiming cashout issues appeared on Uk Poker Life. There’s also a small 2+2 thread on the matter here.
Tony G issued a follow up of sorts in his blog today thats eems to suggest he’s not interested in addressing specific points of complaint regarding T6. Excerpt:
I’m in Australia now for the Aussie Millions. I’m playing the cash games. I’m playing at T6 Poker too. I’m not the only one, T6 Poker has signed up Mel Judah and Jeff Lisandro, and the word is out that there are some really big names that will be signed up soon. I support sites that support poker players – like Full Tilt Poker and T6 Poker.
The bashing always goes on, no matter who is doing what, and where they are doing it, someone has something bad to say about it. If you can’t see the advantage to new sites coming in and more choices, then you can go bury your head in the sand while the rest of the world moves forward around your little pile of rocks.
We’ll update as necessary.
