Odds are at least 3:1 that Malmuth has financial motive for trying to force you to apologize. Whether it's because he smells a possible ad deal with someone associated with the story or whether he just wants to make a smaller (but rising) forum look bad, that's the way he operates. As an aside, he's never had quite the balls to ban me for calling him on his crap and I've dared him to do it more than once.

FWIW, I've read all the threads. I doubt there was anything specifically illegal going on. But my takeaway is this (and these are only my opinions):

1) The room manager, Todd or whoever, probably had a miscellaneous promotional budget to do with as he saw fit, and that included shill players. I've been in that room, and it's a nicer room in appearance than the traffic it's been able to draw, and that's an old issue.

2) He wasn't very successful at his ideas at drawing more traffic to the room, and combined with how much he was in the hole on the promo -- maybe more than Sands management realized -- they likely sacked him for a failure to deliver. Think of it as them having given him a blank check to grow the room, and he probably didn't do it. There probably wasn't anything illegal about it; it looks like he just didn't do a good enough job.

3) At least a couple of his employees don't seem to think he was a very good room manager. Then again, that could be sour grapes from either not getting hours or the possibility that the room might close and they lose their jobs, if this Cantor/Palms deal to run it continues to bleed money.

Also: Silly to let yourself get trolled by that other guy. I used to block all that guy's posts here and at DD.