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Originally Posted by teddyFBI
I feel for you, Casper, but my thoughts are the following:
- There's no way in hell you can claim that anyone other than you is responsible for losses suffered when you were at the controls. If JH was advocating a style you were uncomfortable with, you should have test-driven it at lower stakes. That's like a MLB baseball slugger complaining that a new batting stance advocated by his hitting coach cost him millions because he didn't enjoy as much success with it as with his old batting stance. He should have test-driven it more in batting practice and used his own noggin to think critically about it, keeping what worked and throwing out the rest.
- You're admitting to cheating by allowing someone else to play on your FTP account...?(!) Obviously this doesn't excuse JH's actions, as reported, but you're not exactly endearing yourself her either.
- You gave the guy, who had already begun showing signs of serious shadiness the password to your poker account?
Anyway, I'll quit giving you a hard time. I'm sorry you lost so much. I look forward to the drama bomb once the main thread gets re-opened. I just couldn't help but think, as I read through your post, that there were like a dozen or more red flags that would have sent my 'run-forrest-run' antennae a-blazin'.
EDIT: PS Jim from Stoxpoker > did you guys do any sort of diligence on JH's claim of being a 1M+ / yr winner or just take him at his word and let him advertise himself as such? It seems that a common comment from the cheated folks is that he didn't come across as much more than a mediocre player, if that.
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Teddy,
It's easy for me to feel naive after all this but I don't have the high stakes experience you have so I missed the "red flags" you would've spotted.
I don't like your analogy. How about I was a good Triple A hitter with problems hitting curve balls being told by Barry Bonds that my hitting stance was all wrong, etc? Result is that my hitting suffers and I find out afterwards that Bonds' results were fraudulent.
Well, in many of the Cardrunners vids, I've seen, I can recall Taylor Caby playing on someone else's account at times. Is letting someone play on my account really that much different than sweating? It probably is but his playing on my account wasn't meant to be permanent. It was meant to be educational too since he was to go over the hands he played on his own with me afterwards.
I had been a Stox member since 2005 and always thought the site was well-run with really good coaches and so when Stox advertised Jason as a +$1M winner, I didn't have any reason to disbelieve them. I assumed they would've done some type of background check on that important credential.
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