A Cereus Issue...pun intended!

Below is a copy, word for word, of a blog I posted yesterday at Poker Nuts In Canada about the recent developments in the Cereus scandal. Here's my post :

"Ok. So I normally keep my mouth shut about hot topics, just because so many people have conflicting opinions and I'm not much for conflict, but here goes.

I don't know if anyone DOESN'T know about the big scandals that were made public a few years ago about AP and UB, but if they do they were hiding under a rock, or never read anything about poker except strategy articles. If you didn't know about it and you are interested in online poker than you should definitely do some research and find out how these sites and/or their employees ripped people off for millions of dollars.

Well, recently, one of the figures involved, Travis Makar, has stated that he has evidence that there were more people involved than admitted to by the network. He also states that there was a LOT more money stolen than previously admitted too.

Now I don't really know any of the figures involved in the mix, but I can say that the whole thing stinks of major cover up. Information about this scandal continues to come out, ever so slow as it may be, and the network continues to lie and claim they have done everything they can to shed light on exactly what happened, even after they people proved they were lying. Oh sure, they end up telling SOME of the truth, but never the whole story.

So, can these people be trusted with YOUR/MY/OUR money? HELL NO! I don't care how many pros tell me they are hunting for the truth and won't feel good about themselves until they find it, especially when they then become evasive when asked specifics. I mean "Cereusly" now, excuse the pun, but how much more money needs to be stolen, how many more lies need to be told, how much more covering up can they do before it all comes out anyways?

My opinion is simple, shut them down! Boycott them! Start a mad witch hunt(though one is already on) and burn them at the stake....though that last part is a joke, I can't say that too many people would be against it if you could still do it. How can a community continue to give support to a network(who is currently rated the 5th largest site or network) that has, not just once, but repeatedly proven that they are NOT trustworthy? I just don't get it!

A key example is the latest signing of Prahlad Friedman. How can this guy, who lost millions, got cheated in the worst way, and left to rot, after saying he would NEVER sign with ANY site, sign with the very scammers that robbed him? I think that poor Prahlad has been cheated again by the administration of the network and was led to believe that they have righted their wrongs and are headed in a new direction. Well, the new direction part may be true, but they sure haven't righted ALL the wrongs and they may not EVER be even able to. Prahlad, I think you are a genius, you're play sure is, but I think you just got sucked into a slow played big hand and the river will crush you.

The scandal, the lies, the cover up, the continuation of all 3, should be a warning to ALL that no matter what you may think, there is still a lot more to this than we will ever find out. One thing I can tell you one thing for sure though....I'm done with it. I have given up on Cereus and I think you should too."

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