Sup LP! I'll keep the business straight at the top, I'm thinking of selling up to 50% of myself in total for the WSOP 10k HU event on june 13th at a rate of 1.1. ($550 for 5%, $1100 for 10%, etc). I will accept either stars$ or live cash in vegas. For your consideration I've attached my online hu nlhe cash results from 2008 and 2009 below in spoiler (filtered on hem so it just shows HU hands).
I should have a pretty decent edge on the field with the number of live pros etc playing. I played the event last year and my results were a first round win vs Neil Channing, second round win on the bubble vs Genius28 for the mincash and 3rd round loss to Vanessa Selbst. Reply here or msg me on aim if you're interested in any piece buying. I'll be giving first priority on my pieces to people that will be in vegas at some point during the wsop so that I can give them their share directly in cash when I hit a big score (for smaller scores I'm happy just shipping out the profits on the pieces out from my stars account to whoever prefers that).
edit: sold out
doomer 5 - received
nicksson 5 - received
evilsky 5 - received
twisted 5 - received
saki 5 - received
sida 10 - received
pinball 15 - received
My vegas dates are Jun 12th- Jul 9th, renting a house with a group of poker players seems to be the thing to do during wsop now so thats what i'll be doing with a few uk guys inc Jon's 2 roommates in uk. I'll probably be renting a car but if anyone has any car renting advice for me i'll be more than happy to hear it. The main thing i want is to not have to pay an under 25 fee so tips on accomplishing that would be appreciated. My current plan is just to show up at some desks of rental companies at the airport after landing and make demands. Aside from that I hope to grind a lot of live poker inc donkaments and cashgames and eat a lot of sushi and hang out with a lot of lpers Highlights i very much look forward to include seeing Khan's sick house and Mig's sick car.
Just a quick heads-up that someone has recently registered the account 'Born2DogBaby' on full tilt. that isn't me, born2dogbaby is my name on pokerstars. don't anyone get scammed transferring with fakeborn2dogbaby thinking it's me. that is all
Ex-LPer Simon Petersen (sOah) and I were pretty good friends online for over two years after meeting over LP and speaking on msn a lot, and had met irl too. Yeah for those who remember it, there was that bizaare incident last year involving him with the kidnapping that I made vocal my doubts over and ended up making a mistake, but we put that behind us and were still okay friends. I gave that boy a lot of guidance and he was pretty smart and fun to talk to. I felt we had a good degree of mutual respect for each other, I thought he seemed to have good character, integrity and valued his reputation. Then about 6 weeks ago he stole $20k from me and disappeared, cutting all contact.
It went down like this, early in March he sent me few messages over a few days asking me to consider backing him to play midstakes plo online. I wasn't really too interested so didn't pay much mind to them. Then one day he asked again and went into detail about how it could work, and proposed a deal whereby I'd stake him to play 2/4 PLO on full tilt over a period of several weeks and we'd split whatever profits he made. I asked why he doesn't just play on his own money and he explained he didn't want to deposit his own money into USD because of the way the exchange rates were and that his money was all in DKK or GBP and so he would just prefer to take a backing deal instead. I didn't really want to so I made some excuses and said no basically, but he seemed pretty desperate to get some action so as a favour I offered to just loan him a bit of money for a very short time period just so he could have a dabble in some action expecting he just deposits and pays me back if it doesn't work out. He asked me how much vig I'm charging and I was taken a bit aback since I didnt mention any vig and was clearly just offering to do a favour, so I said 0% so long as you pay back within 7 days. He said "well ok, if we're taking this sorta approach to staking or whatever, do you wanna say 25% for a month/30 days ". Note I didn't ask for this, he was basically just offering to do what seems like throwing money in my lap. I made sure he understood that the terms of this loan and repayment of it would be regardless of his outcome from playing whatever games with it and even said I'd feel guilty taking 25% on a month to which he quickly said okay how about 20% then and I accepted. Note that due to our history I didn't feel I had any reason to think there's any chance he'll run away with my money and not repay me (perhaps naive). This took place on March 6th of this year, on which date I loaned him $20k and we agreed on April 6th being the date he repays me $24k. On March 31st I asked if he was going to be okay to repay $24k for the upcoming repayment date and he said yes ofcourse. April 3rd was the last time he was ever seen on msn by myself of any of our mutual buddies that I asked. I tried calling many many times over the past month, sent several text messages and left a few voicemails. No replies or attempt to contact, never answered the phone once.
The whole thing has left me pretty shellshocked, angry, sad and in disbelief. I want answers and I have none, I have no idea why he did what he did, whether it was a degen screwup with my money he was playing on he wanted to escape from or if it was a long-con from the start. I am usually so careful and mistrusting of people and always thought of myself as the last person who could ever become the victim of a scam but apparently I let my guard down and wasn't as good a judge of character as I thought (though I still find that hard to believe despite this apparent evidence to the contrary, there must still be some explanation but with 0 contact from Simon I can't do anything but guess). In general I think I've been really lucky over my lifetime to have the sort of great friends I've had over the years, most of whom have done me right and been true. I'm not used to being backstabbed and have my trust and good will taken advantage of like this so when this happened it obviously came as a shock. I found it pretty saddening and hurtful that someone could do me like this, to the point I didn't want to post or think about it and pretend it didn't happen. But something like this is something our community, where reputation is important, needs to know happened.
I'm not really sure how I should proceed from this point on this issue and would be open to advice. It feels wrong to just let it go and forget about it and let him get away with it cleanly, but anything else would take time and effort and probably yield no significant results. Here's what I want to see happen in decreasing order of priority:
- get my money back and never think or speak of this again. ideally from simon doing the right thing (MUCH better late than never Simon if you're reading this) or through making some sort of legal claim (which I don't know but doubt is possible when all I have are msn logs - i'll post them if anyone cares to see)
or, failing any shot at getting repaid:
- make sure simon's reputation is dirtied and that people close to him all know what he did and make their own judgments on what sort of person he is, so simon has to live with the weight of it and not get off totally scot-free and I can find closure in some measure of retribution. As far as I know he's currently living with his parents in Farum, Denmark. If any Danish poker players happen by coincidence to know him or see him at cardrooms then feel free to let your friends know he's a thief, for example.
Nothing really more I can think of writing on this issue.
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Highlights i very much look forward to include seeing Khan's sick house and Mig's sick car.
". Note I didn't ask for this, he was basically just offering to do what seems like throwing money in my lap. I made sure he understood that the terms of this loan and repayment of it would be regardless of his outcome from playing whatever games with it and even said I'd feel guilty taking 25% on a month to which he quickly said okay how about 20% then and I accepted. Note that due to our history I didn't feel I had any reason to think there's any chance he'll run away with my money and not repay me (perhaps naive). This took place on March 6th of this year, on which date I loaned him $20k and we agreed on April 6th being the date he repays me $24k. On March 31st I asked if he was going to be okay to repay $24k for the upcoming repayment date and he said yes ofcourse. April 3rd was the last time he was ever seen on msn by myself of any of our mutual buddies that I asked. I tried calling many many times over the past month, sent several text messages and left a few voicemails. No replies or attempt to contact, never answered the phone once.
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