A Bag Full of Tricks on April Fool's Day
Published: Friday, April 08, 2005 Online-Casinos.com
WERE YOU FOOLED?
A bag full of tricks on April Fool's Day
The
Internet is a great place for deception, and this year's April Fool's Day was
no exception with some light hearted lies from industry personalities.
Bodog
CEO Calvin Ayre had more than a few folks going with his "resignation"
from the successful casino / sportsbook / poker room group after losing it to
Sir Richard Branson of the Virgin group in a Texas Hold 'Em game at his The Quay
Lounge Restaurant in Vancouver.
His media sidekick, Chris Costigan of
Sports 911 took a couple days to build his elaborate and convincing deception
leading to the final turn which had him attacked and bitten by a shark whilst
in Miami.
And the Casinomeister had folks worried when Bryan Bailey announced
that he had handed his well known portal and watchdog site over to a Russian called
Sergei Badanov (geddit?) the "Russian Poker King" and owner of "Jiveman
Poker"
Badonov, allegedly "...three time champion of the Moscow
Poker Olympics, winner of the “Texas Hold’em Rodeo” and head of
the Petersburg Poker League." was quoted as saying “With the amount
of money we can take from players, we will be very happy. We will make use of
our player database to make a most profitable venture.”
Whilst Bailey
promised to "... let Sergei take over the Casinomeister complaint department
as well."
Ted Loh at Got2Bet had a bit of fun with an hilarious trip
to Macau that involved him wearing a Royal Dutch Casino cap and his wife's plaid
skirt as a kilt!
Were you taken in by an industry April Fool joke? Write
in and let us know!
