Originally posted on 02/20/2012:
Actually it would have been much smarter to just pay all the winners instead of weaseling out of paying big winners. They would have been able to build a brand instead of trying to create a new one. They will ALWAYS be known as a place that stiffs big winners until they come clean and pay. They can shill and try to pretend to be honorable but in the end they are just another stiff and the vast majority of players will look for a book that pays all winners.