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03-02-2011 , 05:35 PM

#51

TNCS

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Join Date: May 2010 Posts: 1,651

Sickness

03-02-2011 , 05:36 PM

#52

RangeyMcTriplmerge

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$100 says OP's ip address is not in Portugal. Any takers?

03-02-2011 , 05:36 PM

#53

belegoth

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Screenshot of that 822$ or never hapaned

03-02-2011 , 05:37 PM

#54

Furiae

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Join Date: Oct 2010 Posts: 236

Could have believed it. Didn't.

Portugal doesn't have 'GCSE's' for future levels.

03-02-2011 , 05:37 PM

#55

nophun

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Cyluscylus

tl;dr

Worth the read even if it is a level. They got Dog is Head to write it, Who is linguistically agile.

03-02-2011 , 05:39 PM

#56

RangeyMcTriplmerge

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Join Date: Dec 2010 Posts: 1,467

Quote:

Originally Posted by atisz

Nice story. But...Isn't it some American joking? This looks flawless English to me, however English is not my native language. Usually 19 year old kids from a different country aren't able to write with so good grammar and spelling.

I'm a native English speaker and my first degree was English lit and I hereby confirm that the quality of English in the OP is highly jizzworthy. It is in fact a higher standard than that of 99% of the people in England.

03-02-2011 , 05:39 PM

#57

Tunnelvisie

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lol @ paying 4pounds of rake in 3 hands @ 100/200

03-02-2011 , 05:40 PM

#58

Foldemlow

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Jungleman stats + Haseeb writing = Great story.

03-02-2011 , 05:40 PM

#59

Mookie88

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I want to believe this so bad..

03-02-2011 , 05:42 PM

#60

JesusEatsCheese

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so sad that this is a level

03-02-2011 , 05:42 PM

#61

kjemmy

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After thinking about it there's no way this is true. Too much of a fairytale story. Plus it doesn't make sense for him to not post his SNs because of instructions from lawyers but puts out his full name in topic title. Also, his English is just way, way too good for him not to be either a native speaker or someone who's studied English.

03-02-2011 , 05:45 PM

#62

FRENCHDONKEY

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Very interesting, thanks for posting.

And dont be so depressed for the 250k, you till have got 1.4 mirrion

03-02-2011 , 05:46 PM

#63

dkmx

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more interested in how a friend scams you for 250k, I mean was it a loan, did you guys share bankrolls? COLOR ME INTRIGUED. I mean don't tease us about it and then say you don't want to divulge details. A story like yours can help young players avoid the pitfalls of success and distinguish real friends from people who want to take advantage of their success.

03-02-2011 , 05:47 PM

#64

ratslla

Pooh-Bah

Join Date: Sep 2010 Posts: 5,532

Betfair doesn't have ''400NL'', they have 200NL next stakes are $2.5/5 so
500NL.

nice try boys

03-02-2011 , 05:47 PM

#65

lm91

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I remain skeptical.

03-02-2011 , 05:47 PM

#66

SmokeRokka

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Hope it's not a level...cool story.

If he worked as hard at school as he does at poker his English should be excellent.

Wish I had that work ethic...and didn't insta tilt after every pot I lose.

GL if real OP.

03-02-2011 , 05:50 PM

#67

swighey

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Join Date: Sep 2010 Posts: 1,556

Well he did say he went to an international school and passed his GCSEs with good grades. That would indicate that he was educated in English.
Also, his post is littered with classic grammatical inaccuracies that are almost correct but typical of a Spanish or Portuguese speaker - and he claims to be Portuguese so.....
The quality of the English is irrelevant. If this is a "level" it's a pretty good one.

03-02-2011 , 05:51 PM

#68

rica

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Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 975

i wanted to say 'identical' writing style to haseeb's but i'll just stay with 'similar'

03-02-2011 , 05:51 PM

#69

Furiae

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too good that people are falling for this!

03-02-2011 , 05:52 PM

#70

Kozaa

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tl;dr

03-02-2011 , 05:53 PM

#71

RangeyMcTriplmerge

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Join Date: Dec 2010 Posts: 1,467

Quote:

Originally Posted by dkmx

This. José, you owe it to the next generation of poker players to explain, eloquently and in graphic, emotive detail, what happened here.

03-02-2011 , 05:54 PM

#72

HocusPokus

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Join Date: Oct 2010 Posts: 287

not buying this.

i snap-call.

03-02-2011 , 05:55 PM

#73

artisan

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Join Date: Dec 2009 Posts: 420

Quote:

Originally Posted by nophun

Great level by Haseeb and some of the other HS guys ?

I hope it is real, very cool story,

only skimmed through it but it feels very fake.

03-02-2011 , 05:55 PM

#74

federer007

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Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 1,512

why wouldn't people buy this after jungleman and dogishead posted itt and didn't deny it?

03-02-2011 , 05:56 PM

#75

bjornb

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Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 4,937

You forgot to show how you are running 1.6 million over ev.

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