PIC Club Merge Poker Network Public Dispute Continues

Players Investment Club's chief executive officer Chuck Kidd has publicly stated that the payment dispute between the PIC Club and the Merge online poker network seems to be headed for the courts. Outstanding funds owed to players has now been taken care of although the PIC Club still claims fees that are outstanding and has handed the matter over to it's lawyers to collect.

The recent action by Kidd to apparently get Merge Online Poker Network to own up to it's obligations advising members that, "This issue has now been turned over to the lawyers for further collection."

Mr. Kidd has made the issue a very public one, "Since early July, I have been trying to get the Merge Network to pay not only the arrears on fees that were owed to PIC Club but also the money to fund the Players cash out account," Kidd was scathing in his e mail address stating, "During this time I made many concessions to Merge in an attempt to get them to pay. At every promise they made to pay the arrears and acknowledging that the money was indeed owed they kept stalling and sending me the 'Checks in the Mail' story over and over. Adding, "One excuse even involved their CFO being caught in a Typhoon in Japan. It soon became evident that they had no intention of paying their debt and worse they were going to stiff the players. I sought council with many people I respect in this industry and to a person they agreed that I needed to make this issue known. Not only as a possible means to collect our funds but also to expose that Merge was either financially in trouble or was operating unethically,"

Even though it is rumoured that Merge has only paid out approximately one third of the funds owed to PIC Club the public exposure seems to have paid off for the PIC Club.

"Well they finally sent enough money to cover the players cash outs. It is unfortunate that it took shaming them in a Public Arena for them to do what was right by the players and the attacks on PIC Club and I personally are still going on." Mr. Kidd said recently.