Issues with TonyG Poker - losing players

[Jeremy]

I always thought it was common knowledge that Tony started PokerNews and had a vested interest in the company. No one has ever tried to keep that a secret. Speaking of which I am going to start a new thread what is going on right now.

[Jeremy]

As requested in a previous thread by geoffvro, here is what I have been able to accomplish on this.

I have spoken in depth with both management at EuroPartners and PokerNews. Although I cannot guarantee anything, I think there is an amicable solution here. The data should still be there considering they were able to move all the player accounts from the old software to the new software. With that said however matching up every single affiliate and player account (remembering the way the aff. program was) would be difficult.

Instead of turning it into a technical mess, trying to migrate the 90% of affiliates that probably never sent a single player, although longer term this would be ideal. My solution is this.

If you had an account on the old TonyG software with players, firstly sign up for an account at Europartners. (Sorry, but you'll have to do this) Then PM me your username at Europartners, as well as your old login name at TonyG. This way the technical crew at Playtech or Europartners can work on migrating the two.

Hopefully if you had players playing there, this will be able to bring them back under you.

Again this is not a guarantee, but I am pressing as hard as I can for this to happen and I believe it is possible.

Likewise in an attempt to keep things somewhat professional here I am changing the title of the thread.

[corpfan1]

Hey Jeremy,

What if we already have a CPA account at Euro?

Thanks!

[Ozpoker]

Thank you Jeremy

PM sent

[Jeremy]

No problem Oz, Corp I will ask Europartners and find out about your situation. Also for the record I want to apologize for not realizing that this was registered to PokerNews Ltd. As you can imagine Tony is involved in several businesses outside of this corporation.

In this situation the PokerNews/PAW team is about as hands off as you could be. Hence the reason for having EuroPartners involved. Nonetheless it is his name, so I will work to get a good resolution for the affiliates.

[GazMan]

This affiliate migration will definitely happen. EuroPartners just need to work out the technicals. They do have all the old data and are just mapping it together.

TonyGPoker is operated by EuroPartners/Traffic Sales and not PokerNews, so I have little control on what happens, but EuroPartners are a great company and they will resolve this as quickly as possible. It should have happened from the start, but that step was missed in the migration process. Apologies for that. Don't worry though, it will be sorted out, and affiliate revenue will be back paid.

[Ozpoker]

Gaz

Once the migration is complete will we be back under PAW subs ?

I am interested to know whether our players will still be eligible for "special freerolls" through Pnews and whther to wait and see if PAW picks up TonyG or promote though my own trackers.

Any help appreciated.

Thanks

Kevin

[corpfan1]

Just wondering if this has been figured out as of yet???

Haven't heard anything at all.

[Ozpoker]

Nope - no players in my acct yet either.

[cogger]

Originally Posted by Darko

i read somewhere recently, maybe poker-seo.com that tony g was one of the starters of poker news or somthing like that - i'll check a bit later if noone else has.

If my poker business history serves me correctly, Tony started his site on PokerNews.info. It was more like bio and blog of himself and some other news tid bits. With his successful career he was able to acquire the dotCOM from another group or join them. I'm not sure.