Confirmation

The Irish open began about 90 minutes ago and as I have expected the last 2 weeks I am not playing it.
Bru e-mailed us and posted on boards his long awaited clarification on what was going on. The lack of communication from his end is because he claims he was in talks with an potential financier up until the last minute. He also admits he made a lot of mistakes. That much is obvious. To be frank It seemed like he had no real business sense at all. I would have put good money on the fact the LEPO would not get near the numbers they were hoping for. The IO promotion was crazy. They could have easily done a stand out offer for much cheaper then that would have cost them. I am no business expert but it only took a little bit of common sense to see the obvious. Of course I made a few mistakes along the way. Despite seeing these offers had a too good to be true feel to it I still went with it. I also never really pushed it as much as I could . So there was a good bit of naivety on my part as well.

The statement seemed fairly honest although he did try going for he sympathy card at the end by saying his house is likely going to be repossessed. Maybe hoping we do nothing about what has happened. On that point. I have yet to really talk with the others about what we shall do or what we can do. In total Leprechaun have promised 10k to me that I'm not getting. I would have gotten around 6.5k more for splitting first if they kept the 50k guarantee in place and now the 3.5k IO ticket. Psychology it feels different then if I had 10k and it got taken away from me. There is really not much difference but it certainly feels like that.

I am not going to go to the citywest and basically will just ignore the tournament is even going on. For all the hype it really is just another donkament. So I shall treat it like any other weekend.
I am still on target for 30k hands and hoping to keep up to speed.
Good luck for anyone playing the IO!