We at Gambling911.com couldn't help but get a kick out of a recent email sent to the folks at Lucky Room by Chili Poker CEO Alexandre Dreyfus after they "wrongfully" reported that the Chili Poker site will be acquired by Titan Poker.  

Mr. Dreyfus has since informed us that English is not his first language.  And just as we would never attempt to send out an email to someone written in French, he should probably think twice about emailing people in English. 

Dear Mike,

Thanks for this email. As i told you on the phone, I confirmed you that there a "no discussion or thoughts to merge or being bought by any poker-room". The real discussion we have is that Chilipoker is considering to buy some ipoker rooms. Chilipoker which is existing since 3 years now, with more than 130,000 registered players and a very transparent team of 35 people, based in Malta, is very focused and oriented on mainstream marketing. We are not considering ourself as a skin, but as an operator and a brand. We sponsor the WPT in Marrakech for the next 3 years. We are sponsoring the new airline between Paris and Las Vegas. We have done some TV shows, DVD (Hungary), we sponsor for several hundred of thousands of dollars Liz Lieu, etc ... A skin is a small company focus to acquire customers only online, without a brand and doing pricewar. We don't!

There is no plan to unveiled about the security and smooth operations, Since the beginning we have very strong relations with Playtech, considered for them as a strategic partner. We have set, for now, 2 big deals: an exclusive partnership in France, where we have acess to 4.3 millions household of Free.fr (600,000 unique daily visitors) and soon-to-be mobile operator. In Ireland we have set-up a joint venture with Setanta, one of the biggest premium channel (600,000 homes) with almost 1million viewers. It's the first time that a company of our size is doing success B2B deals but promotiong Chilipoker. Usually, its a B2B software solution, but we don't provide only the sofwate (playtech) but as well our brand.

Concerning the fish vs shark ratio, "I think that all iPoker licensees (direct or indirect) are agree to have better rules for the network to help to have a looser (less tight) network, in order to have more fishes. This eco-system will bring good players, but not anymore based on rake-back offer, but on the quality of the network. Moreover, we still thinking that this ratio is not perfect and doesn't fit to all DNA of poker websites. But a least, we agree on the aim and the goals, so all poker-rooms have to work together". Concerning the US market, i dont have any point of view except the fact that Chilipoker will be present when it will be possible.

Alex

Hey, at leest he spelt "eco-system" corectly!

For the record, Lucky Room claims to have authenticated this email as coming from Mr. Dreyfus. 

They are sponsoring an airline that flies between Paris and Vegas?

Would that happen to be XL Airlines, whose parent company folded late last year?

Who knows and who cares?  Or, as Alexandre Dreyfus would probably say:  "WHO CARE!"

Jagajeet Chiba, Gambling911.com