Quote Originally Posted by JeffDime View Post

EZ, you do fantastic work and it’s undeniable that if it weren’t for you this kind of stuff would never come to the surface. Mission is clearly an excellent writer and it’s great to see journalism done in the gambling sphere that isn’t just an advertorial for whomever is paying the writer’s salary.

I will say re-reading the article, my main issue is it positions you needlessly in somewhat of an adversarial position. In retrospect, I think Mission could have written his findings/opinions regarding legality of group pulls without using your video as a contrast.

Let’s use the term scumbaggery, which you have clearly exposed regardless of the legal question. If we just set that aside, your video is providing much needed transparency to the public. Whether or not your interpretation or Mission’s interpretation of the legality is more correct is such a secondary point in my opinion. Airing out what is going on is undoubtedly a huge positive.

That being said, I think it’s a fair criticism that the article spends an inordinate amount of time on you. I think it’s a fair question regarding bias with the website. I’m sure Mission will clarify both.

Again, it’s great work you do. If I run into you in AC I’ll treat you to a free drink on me.
I offered to make a clarification to EZ Life's position and put it at the very top of my article and he declined. That remains my offer. He can even write it, if he wants to...of course, I reserve the right to accept or decline whatever he wants it to say.

As I made clear in both the article and my private correspondence with EZ Life, I totally agree with him in terms of principle. Just look at the title of the article! Does that give the impression that I condone this sort of behavior?

Bias in favor of the website has nothing to do with it. I assume everything the site does is legal, but it would be none of my concern if it is not. They promote online casinos with affiliate links. I have no financial stake in the website whatsoever and the affiliate link activity does not impact the amount I am compensated in any way whatsoever. I am compensated for the writing of articles and no other aspect of the site is any of my concern or purview.

I mean, here we have EZ Life calling me out for running a contest where I give my own money away!!!.

I get it. Being wrong about something sucks. I have plenty of experience with it.

As I stated PRIVATELY to EZ Life, since we're all discussing private communications now, my problem with what he was saying is that I don't want casino security getting false notions of what is or isn't legal just because they heard someone who might be perceived as having a lot of credibility say it is. Casino security tries to threaten AP's with all manner of things when they get back roomed as it is. I'm also averse to the public perception of what is or is not legal being skewed to believe perfectly legal activities are not permitted.

Hey, while we're on the subject of vested personal interests, it sure seems like casinos banning filming of play would be, like, super bad for EZ Life's channel, right? I mean, as long as he's casting aspersions upon me, let's be fair.

That said, I agree that these TikTok group pull people are shitbags. I agree that most of them are almost certainly violating one law or another. I am simply saying that sending money one person to another for the purpose of gambling (contrary to what EZ Life said in his video) is not an automatic violation of the law and the Wire Act has nothing to do with any of this. Money laundering, in theory, could, but it would depend on the circumstances.