<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by SunDevil:
Pat, just curious since I respect your opinion and the work you did here: Do you think some sort of statement is in order from Ken regarding the "change of ownership" at PanAm and how it might be causing a slowpay situation? Given the amount of enthusiasm with which PanAm was introduced by the powers that be around here and that enthusiasm may have caused many posters to feel comfort posting up there, I sure think that at least some statement about whether a change of ownership occurred and why is definitely in order. A schilling for your thoughts....<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
Sun - to answer the question, yes I would like to see as much as we can get from a site like this. Especially from an advertiser when things like this come up. Ken did go down and visit these people and there was much fanfare when they opened, I have an account there right now. I think there is a lot of respect between the parties and hopefully Ken will come to the forums with what he knows that could affect all of us. However before we kick him under the bus I think we should say (at least in my case) we don't know what he is doing behind the scenes. He may very well be in contact with them trying to work out the details of what is going on and looking for a solution. Then again there may not be anything going on at all.
I can tell you from working here you always take the brunt of it in your position but a lot of times your hands are tied in what you can do. The players vent on you as a books banner is hung here and rightfully so, yet the books hide behind you and use a place like this as a buffer. Of course the site gets paid which eases a lot of the pain inflicted but in reality the pure answers are hard for these sites to get. We are dealing with an industry where not only the players in a lot of cases
technically are breaking the law but a lot of the principals involved in these books have done some of that in the past as well. At least in Uncle Sam's eyes. With the JC situation a lot of the ownership situations remain murky by design, not a lot that we can blame on these sites. My father was a bookie for 25 years and trust me when I tell you that no one found out anything about him he didn't want you to know. These guys have lived the life and know how to survive, most of the time it involves keeping your chin down and flying under the radar. The RX or Ken isn't going to get to the bottom of anything that PanAm does not want to get out, that's just the way it is. It's one reason I never really ageed with the label of these places being a "watchdog" site. They serve a lot of good but the track record on these places is not anywhere near what a true watchdog site should be, hell they have no way of knowing a books finances. Let alone what these books are thinking, some of them can have all the money in the world but decide to stiff us just out of spite or greed. How does a true "watchdog" site monitor any of this?
To sum up, yes as players I feel we are owed as much as we can get. I think it's best for us when the sites are as forthcoming with us as they can be, not just when asking for post-up but when questions arise as well. If a book like PanAm is undergoing a change of ownership and it is causing problems then absolutely we should be informed about it. Same thing happened with Royal evidently but for some reason the book was not very upfront about all this. The reality is SunDevil you can't assume Ken or the RX knows much more than you do. The books often hide things they construe will come out negatively towwards them more so against sites like this then they would as players even. So at this point I think it's a stretch to assume too much but yes I would hope Ken would come out here and let us know what he knows. Don't forget I see their banner at a lot of sites and not seeing too much information anywhere else. I don't know either way but would believe Ken doesn't know much more than we do about any major changes at this point. I have nothing to back any of this up but I don't see any wrongdoing by the RX here, I doubt Ken knows much more than we do right now. Thanks for asking...