wow, is all i can say

Matt Vinyl · Post by **Matt Vinyl** » Tue Jun 22, 2010 2:58 pm

Wow, I've just found myself drawn into reading the majority of that thread. Just because of how harrowing it all is. Would hate to ever be involved in anything like that.

Dunhamzzz · Post by **Dunhamzzz** » Tue Jun 22, 2010 6:29 pm

pokerpete wrote:The big shock to me is that anyone is shocked.

Yeah, everyone is like "it might must have been an honest mistake".

I really want to contact some of these people.

"I have a legitimate business investment for you"

CrosbyRules · Post by **CrosbyRules** » Tue Jun 22, 2010 7:23 pm

talk to me...

Mystery_Plum · Post by **Mystery_Plum** » Tue Jun 22, 2010 7:43 pm

Cf wrote:There was another part to this too that i'm not sure was mentioned in the summary.

About a month ago he put a staking thread up for a trip to Las Vegas. I can't remember the exact amount but I think he secured something in the region of $7000 to play various poker events.

He had absolutely no intention of playing these games. He was just using his good reputation to secure the money. At this point it becomes theft/fraud/whateveryouwanttocallit.

Yeah that's the worst part - he's simply stealing money from people there.

I wonder how much money never even made it into the Betfair acccount, and was simply 'knocked in' at the bookies?

The falling asleep story was never going to wash - if you had 100k on a game of football you'd be so wired you could stay awake for 2 days. And this coming from someone who has most probably stayed awake overnight playing poker on the net dozens of times.

It's a sad story, however -

People moaning that they have had to cancel holidays and so on because of it should not have laid the money out to begin with if they needed it so badly. They were giving Blatch money to gamble - he then gambled and lost. Fair enough a lot of it went on horses and roulette, and some got frittered away elsewhere, but at the end of the day they took a punt and lost, one way or the other. Even trusting the guy was a gamble.

bigv038 · Post by **bigv038** » Wed Jun 23, 2010 1:18 pm

Why dont he write a book telling his story to claw some money back

keno · Post by **keno** » Wed Jun 23, 2010 6:16 pm

Cracking read.

trayhop123 · Post by **trayhop123** » Wed Jun 30, 2010 4:09 pm

im sure betch/bowie might be able to answer this ?

didn't ,,,,,,,,,,,, our mutual friend (one of your lot) ,,,,,, (wont mention his name , dont want to embarrass him) ,,,,,,,,,, invest 10k into some rip off merchant , so called bookie expert , and subsequently get shafted??? ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, twas a few years back