GGPoker shady dealings: Should we really trust them?

After reading this thread, it's time for us as a community start asking the question:

- 1: Should we trust a Chinese company that offers poker in countries where online poker is strictly prohibited?
- 2: Should we trust a site with many accounts of shady dealings going on? (a simple 2p2 search shows dozens of them)
- 3: Should we trust a company that allow US players to circumvent federal laws and play via VPN by showing just a simple hotel reservation?
- 4: Should we trust a site that allows players to move money with ZERO KYC, by using shady skin/agent schemes for deposits / withdrawals?

They are clearly doing all of this (along with obscene RB deals) to gain market advantage, but how long can it last?

Yes, they have dnegs and Fedor. They have WSOP. But that's not what makes a company reliable. Money buys all that and Full Tilt and AP/UB also had these.

Greedy and naive poker players looking only at EV on large prizepools will ignore alarms like the ones above. The fundamental premise for someone to be a mark is that they want to take advantage.

We might be looking at Absolute Poker / Ultimate Bet 2.0 here, guys.

Watch out.