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Originally Posted by kahntrutahn
Yes, I definitely wish that a 2+2 mod would look over his post history and simply get rid of him. It's not just that he's badmouthing Merge, but he's spewing some insane stuff that will turn other players off from online poker in general. It's bad for us all when people spew this baseless garbage for all to see.
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Kahn
Not really. Crazy people being crazy tend to not concern normal people when deciding where to do business.
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Originally Posted by tommytuffnutz
^lololololol...plz post more
He has posted more in this thread
http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/28...dition-255990/
Including claims that specific players cheated based on their sharkscope results (easy to prove he is delusional) even though he does not even have a sharkscope membership to do proper research.
He posted a manifesto in that thread with his initial ideas, but he has added a ton more just like the guys who put crazy notes all over their walls to uncover a hidden secret only they seem to know exists.
Guys like this are a bit of a nightmare to companies (and agencies he no doubt spams endlessly) mainly because they place zero value on their time, and they will waste others pursuing an agenda that is meaningless to everyone else in the world. Some companies give these little guys some money just to make them go away (similar to the person who lends a guy who never pays back loans $50 just so they never have to see them again), but given the LOLtastic threats this guy has made no company would ever give him a cent and they generally let these guys scream themselves and waste their own time while ignoring them (as they should).
Anyway here was part of his manifesto in the other thread. This guy will end up on a street corner some day with a little sign of his paranoid concerns, but at least then he will get some fresh air.
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Originally Posted by northeastbeast2
Sure I can tell you how it works. Here is how they are doing it.
1. Hire a bunch of people in a poor country to take your deposits and play in the games.
2. Train them so that they know how to collude in games in the proper way depending on the result that is desired.
3. Pay those people to post in forums and create blogs to add legitimacy and plausible denibility in order to add doubt and avoid detection.
4. Use your affiliates as prop players and allow them to maintain winning longterm records in the games. These are your "big winners".
5. Have another group of people focused on trying to find ways to steal from any players that have managed to win in the cash games in heads up situations against other American players. These players superuse and always maintain low sample sizes as to keep their results statistically insignificant.
6. For your Americans verses Americans or non-house verses non-house matches rig the results of the match to make the rake collected as extreme as possible but still within the bounds of being unprovable due to sample size.
7. Use the VIP store as a tool to lure people but make the acquisition of the items in that store impossible due to "software errors"
8. Have a cashout policy that is very unreasonable in any context but hide behind the excuse that it is because of the difficulty transferring money.
9. Verify documents and have strict security measures in situations that all relate to denying people their money and reinforce the perception of the site as a place that cares about protecting the integrity of transactions on it.
10. Set-up affiliated credit card processors to both handle poker deposits and to engage in identity theft and credit card fraud. Control the distribution of short term results in your poker games so that it allows you to make it appear that players are on an upswing in your games when in reality you're really dumping stolen money to make it impractically traceable and unlink-able to your network affiliates.
11. Send uncashable checks out to any players that get through the egregious cash-out policy to string them along. This adds informational legitimacy in the poker community and works as a from of advertising to bait more suckers to deposit.
12. Set up a bunch of skins that you control tightly but act as if you have loose cannons among them so that you can cut them loose when they blatantly steal from their customers in more extreme ways. Brand arbitrage I guess you could call it.