"Limon", who runs the Live at the Bike "Pokersesh" show, has recently developed an interest in the Melanie Weisner situation with Lock Poker.
Basically, my gripe with Melanie is that she both promoted Lock long after it was clearly a scam, AND profited from the horrible cashout situation by using her "priority cashout" status to make 25% vig on them.
I assert that, once Melanie learned that Lock was a scam and not paying anyone (something she acknowledged in May, 2013 when I talked to her voice on Skype), she should have resigned immediately. She promised me that she would resign in June, 2013 if things did not improve, and she broke that promise. Instead, she kept promoting them.
Later it was also discovered that Melanie had been using her "priority cashouts" to get money off Lock when regular players couldn't, and was buying people's Lock funds at 75% and then cashing them out for herself at 100%. This was when Lock funds were trading at something like 30% on 2+2. So she took advantage of the situation and profited from it, rather than doing this at no vig in order to simply help the community (and atone for the fact that she had been promoting a scam company!)
Melanie has since had a number of side jobs related to poker, including Live at the Bike commentator and running various poker clinics.
I feel that anyone who helped promote Lock when it was clearly known as a scam should be ostracized from the community, and companies hiring these people should be discouraged from doing so -- similar to what happened to Joe Sebok and Bonnie Leinhos after UB.
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Originally Posted by Dan Druff
