Originally Posted by
Dan Druff
I am not rooting for him to fail.
I do laugh at some of the site's issues, given that much of it wouldn't have occurred had they hired either me or someone like me, but I have no issue with Phil personally. By the time I e-mailed him offering to work there, he already had a team in place, and I figured that was probably the case before I even contacted him. Was just a longshot to see if he was interested. He wrote a long, very polite letter back, and I appreciated it. I have nothing personally against the guy. Seriously.
I do think he's made a lot of really, really bad decisions regarding how he managed the business, but that's on him and his investors. None of that hurts or affects me any.
I also don't think Phil would rig any matches. He doesn't seem like that type of person.
I'm not concerned about him. I'm much more concerned with other people who have skin in the game, who may not be as honest as Phil. If you're an investor, and you have a relationship in some way with one or more programmers, you might want Phil to win these matches, especially if you also invested in the matches themselves. These people could have it rigged without Phil even knowing.
This is why the question of, "Phil, does anyone own a piece of your action here who also owns a piece of (or works at) Run It Once Poker, besides yourself?" is a very important one -- and I haven't seen that addressed yet.
For example, it would be highly unethical for one of the programmers to have a piece of Phil's action here, for obvious reasons..
Of course, if Phil ends up losing overall, we will already have our answer as to whether or not it was rigged in any way. But we've only seen a fraction of one match played so far, so it's still very early.