Hello, my name is Scott Blumstein. I'm a 22 year old student who attends Temple University in Philadelphia. I am selling a package to the $400 Borgata Pocket 5's New Jersey 150k gtd on 7/28 and the Parx $330 150k gtd on 8/1. Both mtts will be extremely soft and great value. Both these guarantees should get crushed and have around ~70-80k to first.

http://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/player.php?a=r&n=251603

Other than the scores on my Hendon Mob, I also shipped a $100+$20+$25 bounty mtt at a Borgata spring series for $4655 + $400 in bounties and got 2nd in a Harrahs Philadelphia 25k gtd event for $5460. I also have a 7th place finish in a Turningstone 100k gtd for 1700 and an 11th place finish in a Turningstone $350 50k gtd for $1250.

I have also recently been grinding on the New Jersey sites consistently for the past two months and have had a bunch of success. Below is my P5's.

http://www.pocketfives.com/profiles/sblum2711/


one bullet to the Borgata $400 and two to the Parx $330

$1060 x 1.18 (rounded) = $1260

2.5%= $31.50
5%= $63
10%= $126

looking to sell 50% of this package.

I can accept either paypal, BOA, or cash in AC.

For tax purposes, if i cash for anything that needs to be taxed, i will require you PM your information. If this is not done within a week after these tournaments i will send and withhold the taxable amount.

Any bonuses or rewards for playing, I keep 100% of.

Thanks for your consideration in buying my action!!!

Refrences: Jimbobwe00, thegoonch2192, GeNet1x, Darthsickle and others if needed

Thanks again!

5 might bump up later tho

2.5 % PP

If there is no min, 1% BoA

Booked. Will pm paypal. Thanks


I would prefer to have a min of 2.5% as of right now. I apologize for the inconvenience. I'll Pm you if i change my mind down the road.

Booked. Thanks.

Only selling 40% total as of now

FA-Deed 2.5% PP (res)
mtt3166123 5% (res)

7.5% sold, 32.5% left

Give me 4% Scott. I'll load up paypal closer to time. When are these Mtts?

Booked Nick. thanks. Mtts are july 29th and then parx is Aug 1st-Aug 5th

Also 10% booked for private investor.

FA-Deed 2.5% PP (res)
mtt3166123 5% (res)
Mascot 4% pp (res)
Private investor 10% (res)

21.5% sold, 18.5% left

whats a boragata?

2.5% BoA

Booked. Thanks


FA-Deed 2.5% PP (res)
mtt3166123 5% (res)
Mascot 4% pp (res)
Private investor 10% (res)
Justblaze47 2.5% boa (res)

24% sold, 16% left

bump

I'll take 5%.

To Whom It May Concern,

The player offering this stake (Scott Blumstein) lost a bet to me about a month ago and has not paid me yet. To the best of my knowledge he has no intent of paying me. We had a falling out and when I demanded he pay me the sum he flat out told me no. When I told him I would go public with the issue and that I did not want to do that because it is a serious thing, he essentially dared me to. I decided I would only go public once he made a staking thread because I think it is important that backers know who they are dealing with. Here are the basics of the situation (if you don’t feel like reading all of this I’ll include cliffs at the bottom):

While in Atlantic City, Scott, myself, and a third person play OFC while killing time before we go out for the night. We agree to play for 50 cents a point. After about 5 or 6 hands me and the third player want to leave. At this point I’m up about 20 points and Scott is down about 50 (the third player is up about 30). Scott does not want to stop playing. One of us is in fantasyland so we agree to play until everyone is out of fantasyland. It takes about 5 hands to get everyone out of fantasy at which point I am up 161, the third player is down 22, and Scott is down 139, resulting in a debt of $69.50. The third player pays me but Scott refuses, telling me that I quit him. I never had any intention of putting in a lifelong session with him (I don’t really play OFC very often to begin with) and I was under the impression we were just killing time. Scott tells me that I must play more hands with him or he will not pay me. This did not seem fair to me, but I figured there would be times in the future that we would play together, so I asked him to square up with me now, and in return I would play more hands in the future. He refused.

About 3 weeks prior to all of this happening Scott had made a bet with a mutual friend of ours, Joe McKeehen (isuxatpokerbad, dude904) over an online game in which Joe laid Scott 20:1 over a 7 game series, Joe’s $2000 to Scott’s $100. Joe narrowly won, and at the point of the OFC game going on, Scott had not paid Joe. A few days after the OFC game, I logged onto Skype to see Joe asking in a group chat that both Scott and I were also in if anyone had heard from Scott because Scott had yet to pay Joe. I told Joe that I wouldn’t hold my breath because I didn’t think that Scott had any intention of paying me. At this point Scott left the Skype group and texted me a very personal insult. I’m not sure why that set him off the way it did, but the insult was personal enough to result in me ending my friendship with Scott. I told him I had no intention now of playing any more hands with him and that he needed to pay off my debt immediately. He told me no. I told him that Joe and I were going to go public and out Scott as a scammer. Scott said he wouldn’t pay either of us. A few hours later Scott paid Joe but did not pay me. I think Scott realized that Joe has a lot of pull in the poker world, and the fact that he would have been outted as freerolling Joe for $2000, whereas my debt was smaller, led to him only paying what was necessary to avoid being exposed as a scammer in the poker community. Joe has agreed to confirm this story in this thread.

I have had friends who know Scott ask if he has any intention of paying me back. His responses have been “that is between me and Dan” and “I never said I would not pay him.” I asked Scott many times to just pay me so that we could go our separate ways but he has refused. This feels like the only thing to do at this point. I realize the amount of money is small but to me that should not really be the issue here. If Scott can convince himself that it is okay to not pay a debt for any reason, then you should proceed with caution when investing in him because he might do the same to you. Scott is a good poker player and I don’t doubt this package is +EV, but he made a bet and did not honor it and I think it’s only right that he addresses that before he starts dealing with other people’s money again.

CLIFFS:
• Scott and I play OFC, I win $69.50, Scott refuses to play unless I play more hands
• Scott and I have a falling out that ends our friendship, I demand debt, Scott refuses to pay
• Scott says he will not pay an existing debt with Joe McKeehen but eventually does when we threaten to go public. He still does not pay me.
• It has been over a month since the OFC game and Scott still seems to have no intention of paying. Proceed with caution when investing.

will joe comment as well

I wasn't there at the hotel for the situation but two friends of both mine and scott's were and they have confirmed the story is true. When I won my bet Scott told me he would pay me the next day (something he does often-delay things until it's convenient for him even though he has the means to do it immediately); the next day he blocked me on Skype. At one point he said something along the lines of “I would love to see Joe complain about $100 publicly,” implying that it is somehow okay to not pay me a relatively small amount of money simply because I have been making money lately. Dan and I threatened to go public, at which point Scott began to talk about blackmailing me over things he didn't have any clue over. Eventually after giving him a deadline over two weeks after the bet was completed, Scott paid me but not Dan and texted me claiming none of this was his fault, how i handled the situation horribly, etc. I don't really understand where his mindset was/is but for such a smart kid he does have a hard head. Not paying Dan is just absolutely silly and he's turned something that shouldn't be a problem at all into a huge deal where I personally don't think he could be trusted with others money. Scott is a good poker mind who I think will have success in the future if he keeps his head level, but these episodes have given me reasonable doubt as to whether he can keep his head straight for long enough with other peoples' money.

-Joe McKeehen

Alright, guess I now have to defend myself. Unfortunately this is somehow an issue and one man can try to ruin your rep over the internet like RSN5 has attempted to do. I'll try to be brief while covering each point. My side of the story is that we did play Chinese poker and the end numbers are correct. About 5 or 6 hands in Dan was stuck around 80 points and the 3rd person was up a decent amount. Dan (RSN5) got lucky, got into FL, continued to stay, and won the 161 points he is referring to. When he says "we agreed to quit once everyone got out of FL", this was not the case. Only was it once he was out, he and our 3rd friend agreed that it was a good time to stop since we had plans to go out in the somewhat near future. I was stuck now and while the money is clearly not life changing, I believed it was fair that I had a chance to try and get unstuck as Dan just had done himself. We had played ~11 hands at this point and anyone who is familiar with the game knows that is clearly not a large enough sample for the game to just end. I wasn't asking for a lot. I stated my dismay and said that if we could play for 20 more minutes/then once everyone was out of FL then I would gladly square up even if i lost more points. Dan seemed content on getting unstuck and booking a win and refused. I then said I would prefer to square up at a later date after I received the few more hands I had requested. I thought him being a friend of mine this wouldn't be a big dilemma. He was apprehensive but nothing further happened. Later that night we went out. I bought us a case of beer to split before we went out and we agreed I would take it off the OFC debt as a way of me compromising. We had a good time and gambled on a mini basketball game at Bally's. He beat me in a close match. I paid him the $20 right on the spot. The next day I send Dan a text joking about something we usually joke about. He gets extremely defensive and accuses me of free rolling him. I explained to him that I am playing online, but if he wants to discuss the debt rationally in private that i'd be willing to do so. He did not oblige and that ended out friendship. I still to this day have no intentions of freerolling RSN5. If he had chosen to discuss it with me like the friends i thought we were I would have probably been convinced to pay him. Instead he took it to this skype chat. I had bought him Wawa the night before, I bought us the case of beer, I took care of him when he was terribly sick, I attempted to help him with his love life numerous times offering advice. I've sold numerous packages in this MP and have NEVER had any issues. I'll admit maybe I didn't act like a true professional in all of this. I am not a great loser but I am NOT a scammer in any way. I'm pretty disappointed that a $59 debt to a friend is resulting in me having to defend the reputation I have worked hard to build. If people no longer choose to invest in me, I will understand, but I have many people who are not RSN5 who will attest to my good character. I have just been made aware of Joe's post and I will address that now. Any questions you may have about this situation I will gladly answer. Sorry 2p2 has to be involved in this.

Thanks,

Scott Blumstein.

I'm pretty astonished you would decide to come in here and take this stance Joe. I will admit that I probably did not handle our situation great. I was salty about losing, I was salty about you writing in a public chat every day about how i haven't paid you yet when you did not once PM me about squaring up. I don't believe I said I would pay you the next day but I also realize wagers should be squared up pronto. I am not a rich man and I had to figure out a way to free up $100. As far as having funds available, I did not have money in paypal and being that you were on the other side of the country, I had to load up my account. This takes a few days. In my saltyness I didn't exactly make this clear. Then I lazily did not send you the paypal for another week. My squaring up with you had absolutely nothing to do with RSN5's debts as they are two separate situations. I always had intentions of paying you as I clearly told you once I got over the loss. Again I admit I did not handle this situation well but I am far from a scammer. I don't know how joe can come in here and say that I should not be trusted with other peoples money when he has let me stay in his room numerous times with a decent amount of his cash/chips in it. Seems hypocritical to me that he would say that. Again I'm from a mindset where a $100 loss to someone you consider a friend taking two weeks to be paid should not be a reason to try and destroy their rep and i'm very disappointed that these two individuals have tried to do such a thing. I apologize to you Joe for acting the way I did but if you can really look in the mirror and think that this is a reason to say these things than that is something you have to deal with. I will address any inquires about this subject as well.

I have made my defense, I have admitted guilt, but I am not a scammer and I am a very trustworthy person who has worked extremely hard on his poker game over the past year or so and is a +EV investment in these fields. I regret the way I handled the situation with Joe and I hope he can accept my apology. If not being the best gambler with people who I thought were my friends makes me a bad person in your eyes then so be it but I hope the public realizes that I am a good, trustworthy, person who probably didn't handle somethings the right way. I have been playing backed online in NJ for about 8 months now and have not had one hiccup. I will try to get some references to come in here and attest to the other side of me. I love poker and I would never do anything to risk my reputation in the community. I wish I would have resolved these issues without them becoming public but that didn't happen due to what I believe to be a lack of communication and a misunderstanding with RSN5. I will PM all current investors tomorrow to make sure they still want their action after the events in this thread. Thanks again.

-Scott Blumstein

Pretty silly it has come to this imo. If you're this salty over small bets, maybe you should try and avoid them? Don't think Dan or Joe were out of line with their posts ITT, the situation needs to be addressed.

This reads as though Dan was paid, have him confirm ITT and be done with this.

glgl in the tournaments.

As of right now I have not been paid.

I claimed I will address questions and embrace criticism. I agree that a leak of mine is displayed here. I am one to not make a "mountain out of a mole hill" if there is a debt such as this between someone I know well and consider a friend. I project that logic onto other people which is probably wrong. Again Dan and I had a disagreement. I believed that there were other ways to solve the disagreement it since we were friends at the time. I believe in my heart that if he had contacted me privately we could have worked it out like two adults. I didn't enjoy him trying to make it something more than that it was at the time. Thus we ended our friendship over what I believe to be a dispute and what he believes to be principal. Although we are not friends if RSN5 wanted to reach out to me and try to work this out and have some sort of mediation, I'd be willing to do so. I could have paid him on the spot right there and wrote in his next thread about how he is a scummy gambler who hit and ran in a game of massive variance with huge swings. If that's what would have prevented this, then maybe I should have done so. I would love to obviously put this whole thing behind me. I personally don't believe that these issues should have been brought up in my thread in that they both should understand who I am as a person and their negligence to see that through their haste over my stance on the situation is disappointing.

So you're sending him the $69.50?

I will send him $49.50 if he wants to come in here an acknowledge that I bought us a $20 case of beer to split and paid for $10 worth of wawa. I admit fault in all this. I still don't truly believe that this should have been the case because of the circumstances at hand (our friendship, the fact that i believed I was being hit and ran, my not outrageous request to play just a few more hands), but i realize my fault that I probably should have just been the bigger person and paid then and there. Although I hope his conscious eats at him for trying to ruin my rep after all I've done for him. I hope he realizes what a ****ing fool he is to lose a friend as good as me when all he had to do was PM me and discuss this issue like a man. He knows deep down in his heart that I am not a scammer, that I am a good, trustworthy person and I know that and that's all that matters. Once he agrees with the amount I will send the funds and put this stupid situation behind me and hopefully the MP will understand.

You did buy us a case of beer; I should have removed the $10 from that from the debt.

I was up about 40 points when we were messing around playing 25c a point in the room earlier that week. You bought me a sandwich and a drink that I imagine came out to around $6-$7. Since I was your friend and getting money from you always seems to be a process, I decided to let the extra few bucks slide and call it even at that point.

So if we take off the $10 from the beer but then add the few bucks back from the original OFC the debt is over $60 again. In the interest of just getting this matter over with you can just send me $49.50.

After the insult Scott sent me I told him I no longer wanted to play OFC, no longer wanted to be his friend, and requested he send me the debt on PayPal. I told him my email was soxnets5@yahoo.com and to send PayPal when he had the chance. I’m not sure why Scott has repeatedly told me on here that I should have searched him out and come up with some sort of payment plan. My feeling was that he owed me the money, he knew how to get it to me, and he was refusing.

I’d also like to address the text message Scott sent me after I originally posted here. “I wouldn’t show up at borgata or parx if I were you. It’s gonna get ugly” I don’t think that I should have to worry about going into casinos that I’ve been going to since I turned 21 over something as simple as this.

I agree to completely drop this matter once I have received the $49.50 (soxnets5@yahoo.com on PayPal) and received some sort of acknowledgement that the text was a weird joke and that I won’t have to watch my back at casinos I frequent on a somewhat regular basis.

Attacking someone's reputation is a big deal kid. If you expected a "thank you" text then something is wrong with you.