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In today's installment of the "CAP Follies" (CAP is short for Casino Affiliate Programs) we learn that co-organizer, Warren Jolly, has stepped up to the pulpit and ordered his minions to ignore any reports "attacking" CAP's business ethics.
They are tough to ignore though.
Where do we begin?
CAP was alleged to have been "in bed" with a "rogue" online poker room that filed to pay its affiliate partners for over two months before press reports linked the two companies. Following several denials by CAP, some admittance eventually came forward on their part. Even those who refused to pass judgment early on (the likes of Bryan Bailey from CasinoMeister.com) soon found themselves banned from posting in the CAP forum. Further revelations surfaced over the weekend that CAP organizers had hacked into another website's database. Bailey also called CAP out on its intention to disrupt another popular online casino affiliate event by scheduling something that same month in the same exact location - Amsterdam.
Now Jolly it seems has taken on the persona of a cult leader. At least he sounds like one in his recent message during Sunday's mass.
"I would like to encourage everyone, both members and non-members of CAP, to encourage GPWA, Michael Corfman, Jay Todd, APCW, and whoever else is participating in these attacks against the CAP community to STOP causing this unneeded distraction in our industry. It will hurt you PERSONALLY if Lou (Fabiono) is no longer a part of CAP and able to provide the assistance and guidance he has since CAP's inception."
Jolly has already compared attacks made against his organization to the Holocaust.
In his rant, Jolly makes reference to CAP co-organizer, Fabiono, appearing to have resigned from the company on Sunday (at exactly midnight) and mentions Michael Corfman of GPWA, who has provided evidence that CAP and "rogue poker room" CardSpike had some type of ownership arrangement.
Skeptics can't help but question whether this is some type of new stunt CAP has hatched - the suggestion that "without our prophet, we must all drink the poisonous Cool Aid as none of you will be able to survive in a world controlled exclusively by the GPWA and Michael Corfman.
"It is hard to know what's really going on behind the scenes," says Gambling911.com Senior Editor, Payton O'Brien. "Fabiono is known to have other business interests but none anywhere near as lucrative as Casino Affiliate Programs."
Unlike cult leader Jim Jones, who ordered his more than 900 followers to drink a deadly concoction of poisonous Cool Aid once it appeared imminent the end was near, Warren Jolly doesn't appear to have a whole lot of followers judging by the various posting forums where both former and current CAP members are now questioning the various improprieties.
Jolly last week requested that Gambling911.com remove dozens of reader comments appearing below articles related to this matter. His request was vehemently denied.
"The request was absurd," remarked O'Brien. "Can you imagine if Gambling911.com made similar requests to other websites out there? We would require a staff of at least 50 just to keep up with the disparaging comments made about the Gambling911 website."
Perhaps Warren has had too much of that Cool Aid himself.
CAP is throwing an event this week in London that has plenty of industry people on edge following the announced intention of Fabiono to retire along with all the other concerns that have surfaced in recent weeks.
Christopher Costigan, Gambling911.com Publisher
