CasinoMeister Bryan Bailey Boycotts CAP Over CardSpike Flap
Just when you think things couldn't get any worse regarding the Casino Affiliate Programs (CAP)/CardSpike.com flap, they just did.
The most prominent of the online casino watchdogs, Bryan Bailey, also known as the CasinoMeister, has opted not to attend this year's CAP event in London, England. The CAP affiliate festivities were slated to take place the same week as the Internet Gaming Expo Show (better known as ICE).
Casinomeister posted a YouTube video entitled "Chillin' with the Meister" on Friday, January 23, 2009.
View the video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64Hdaa1zTtk
In the video he announces that he will be attending the ICE show Tuesday to Thursday next week, and will be attending the CAP Awards ceremony, but will be skipping the CAP Euro show.
Quoting from the video "There have been some really funky things going on with CAP which have made me rather uncomfortable. So I'm opting out this year. For one thing there is an issue that they are dealing with right now which in my opinion is a conflict of interest. In my opinion it is not right. And so I'm opting out of going to the event really because of this."
Casinomeister goes on to say he does not like the way CAP seems to be trying to monopolize affiliate conferences and that his plan is to attend the CAC conference in Amsterdam, and to skip the conflicting CAP Spring Break event. That event takes place March 30-31 and will also be attended by Gambling911.com's Senior International Correspondent, Jenny Woo.
Much of the flap relates to admissions that CAP organizers had some interests in a "rogue" online poker room, CardSpike.com, which had not paid affiliate partners for over two months until news of CAP's involvement broke earlier in the month.
Christopher Costigan, Gambling911.com Publisher
