Comments on: Unpeeling the Absolute Onion http://pokerati.com/2008/01/12/unpeeling-the-absolute-onion/ Poker News, Poker Skills, Poker Laws, Poker Lives Sat, 20 Mar 2010 02:06:40 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: The Pokerkeep http://pokerati.com/2008/01/12/unpeeling-the-absolute-onion/comment-page-1/#comment-135946 The Pokerkeep Mon, 14 Jan 2008 17:03:30 +0000 http://pokerati.com/2008/01/12/unpeeling-the-absolute-onion/#comment-135946 Great podcast! Lou asked the right questions. In response to Jen saying no one seems to know who really owns Absolute poker... Jen mentions "Absolute Entertainment" very early in the podcast - look into this further if you want to unpeel the onion! I'm pretty confident the AP ownership question can be answered with enough digging. Jen may want to do an investigation on the ownership structure and the American (Scott Tom) connection and why they would use a Canadian Mohawk Chief (Norton) as a figurehead owner... UIGA comes to mind! Norton owns Tokewiro which owns Absolute Poker. Shell company? Who owns "Absolute Entertainment"? Not Norton! Absolute Poker and Absolute Entertainment are not the same company! Where does the real money come from? Where does it go? Joe Norton - owns Tokwiro/AP - also is Chief of Mohawk Territory and if you dig a little I'm sure you will find a definite conflict of interest if he does indeed own AP. Look into his relationship with KGC. Absolute Poker and the KGC owe us transparency on this issue, do you really think it will ever happen? Great podcast! Lou asked the right questions. In response to Jen saying no one seems to know who really owns Absolute poker…

Jen mentions “Absolute Entertainment” very early in the podcast – look into this further if you want to unpeel the onion! I’m pretty confident the AP ownership question can be answered with enough digging. Jen may want to do an investigation on the ownership structure and the American (Scott Tom) connection and why they would use a Canadian Mohawk Chief (Norton) as a figurehead owner… UIGA comes to mind!
Norton owns Tokewiro which owns Absolute Poker. Shell company?
Who owns “Absolute Entertainment”? Not Norton! Absolute Poker and Absolute Entertainment are not the same company!
Where does the real money come from?
Where does it go?

Joe Norton – owns Tokwiro/AP – also is Chief of Mohawk Territory and if you dig a little I’m sure you will find a definite conflict of interest if he does indeed own AP. Look into his relationship with KGC.

Absolute Poker and the KGC owe us transparency on this issue, do you really think it will ever happen?

]]> By: DanM http://pokerati.com/2008/01/12/unpeeling-the-absolute-onion/comment-page-1/#comment-135772 DanM Sat, 12 Jan 2008 21:54:51 +0000 http://pokerati.com/2008/01/12/unpeeling-the-absolute-onion/#comment-135772 ***I have to agree with Dan here. *** It's painful, isn't it, TBR? ***I have to agree with Dan here. ***

It’s painful, isn’t it, TBR?

]]> By: TBR http://pokerati.com/2008/01/12/unpeeling-the-absolute-onion/comment-page-1/#comment-135749 TBR Sat, 12 Jan 2008 16:08:11 +0000 http://pokerati.com/2008/01/12/unpeeling-the-absolute-onion/#comment-135749 I have to agree with Dan here. There seems to be an abundance of checking, re-checking, double-checking, rules and regs., fines, etc. That's all well and good if it weren't, to borrow Dan's analogy, the carjacker's mother that's laying down the hammer. Give me a break. Does Bellagio police it's poker room? or MGM Mirage for that matter? Hell no, the Nevada Gaming Commission does. I have to agree with Dan here. There seems to be an abundance of checking, re-checking, double-checking, rules and regs., fines, etc. That’s all well and good if it weren’t, to borrow Dan’s analogy, the carjacker’s mother that’s laying down the hammer. Give me a break. Does Bellagio police it’s poker room? or MGM Mirage for that matter? Hell no, the Nevada Gaming Commission does.

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