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06-21-2012, 03:57 AM
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#1021
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2+2 Ad Man
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Canada, eh.
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Re: Brad Booth's Apology to WCGrider, Others, and Poker Community
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Originally Posted by Abbaddabba
Or maybe you're both using the word intelligent a bit too liberally.
gambling_lol
Alcoholism... now that's an addiction I can get behind.
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You seriously don't think intelligent people can have issues with impulse control?
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06-21-2012, 04:43 AM
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#1022
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grinder
Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Where the Wild Things Are
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Re: Brad Booth's Apology to WCGrider, Others, and Poker Community
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Originally Posted by Bobo Fett
You seriously don't think intelligent people can have issues with impulse control?
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You're either being leveled or u nailed it with your last post
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06-22-2012, 11:49 AM
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#1023
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adept
Join Date: Jan 2009
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Re: Brad Booth's Apology to WCGrider, Others, and Poker Community
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Originally Posted by Fordham
i havent seen a booth in this rough shape since Keifer Sutherland called Colin Ferrell
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Sick reference to a sick movie. Well played sir.
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06-22-2012, 12:57 PM
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#1024
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old hand
Join Date: Oct 2007
Posts: 1,420
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Re: Brad Booth's Apology to WCGrider, Others, and Poker Community
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Originally Posted by GrouchySmurf
This is a common problem for people who have played poker for too many years. When all you have done is play poker, hang out with poker friends, talk poker, etc, you can't imagine doing anything else, you can't imagine life without it. You will hang on and on to it even when it doesn't make any sense any more.
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Good luck at getting a job too. Resume? Working 9-5? That $300,000 bet he made against Ivey would take a person 5-6 YEARS to earn.
GL to all the degen poker players. Welcome to reality.
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06-22-2012, 01:26 PM
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#1025
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adept
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Las Vegas
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Re: Brad Booth's Apology to WCGrider, Others, and Poker Community
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Originally Posted by JohnyCrash
You make a good point not that BB should be excused for being a scammer because he got scammed.
But BB being scammed probally ****ed up his game. Getting soul owned on a consistant basis would screw any players game.
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I'm sure him losing that money to UB mind ****ed him.....I got robbed for 50k in the beginning of 07 and I am just now getting over it....
I went from playing and winning on any buyin on stars to not being able to focus on 1$ donkaments.....
BB has a lot of hard work ahead of him ...If he fails, we will know fairly soon. sucks being in the public eye when ur life is dragging the the mire
GL Brad !
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06-22-2012, 03:20 PM
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centurion
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Arlington, TX
Posts: 125
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Re: Brad Booth's Apology to WCGrider, Others, and Poker Community
I hear Knish's truck route is available.
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06-22-2012, 03:20 PM
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grinder
Join Date: Nov 2010
Posts: 447
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Re: Brad Booth's Apology to WCGrider, Others, and Poker Community
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Originally Posted by tarheelbluez
I'm sure him losing that money to UB mind ****ed him.....I got robbed for 50k in the beginning of 07 and I am just now getting over it....
I went from playing and winning on any buyin on stars to not being able to focus on 1$ donkaments.....
BB has a lot of hard work ahead of him ...If he fails, we will know fairly soon. sucks being in the public eye when ur life is dragging the the mire
GL Brad !
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The difference is that you, presumably, did not start scamming people and running up huge sports betting losses with money that you could not repay.
Brad Booth is a thief. Why anyone would have any sympathy for him at this point is beyond me.
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06-22-2012, 04:15 PM
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#1028
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adept
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Las Vegas
Posts: 923
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Re: Brad Booth's Apology to WCGrider, Others, and Poker Community
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Originally Posted by frozendonk
The difference is that you, presumably, did not start scamming people and running up huge sports betting losses with money that you could not repay.
Brad Booth is a thief. Why anyone would have any sympathy for him at this point is beyond me.
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BB did do some unsavory things and he should be held accountable.....
My point is, after traumatic experiences people go thru mental stuff that makes them depressed and sometimes they make poor choices....
I went thru the mental issues and I made hella poor choices and I was held accountable....
I think as a first world society and a greatly communicative community that we should look at the WHOLE picture and give the guy a 2nd chance, IF,IF he does the right thing and make ammends...
even if he never plays cards or gambles again , as long as he faces up and attempts to work and pay the debt off hes good in my eyes.
The variance in life is that someone will have to wear the dunce cap because , theres a dunce cap to be worn. he scammed and stole but did he redeem himself as much as society would like ??? not yet but at least he has made an attempt...
obv no one with any real intelligence is gonna give him any more xfers to steal....
only way from here is up unless he chooses to stay in that purgatory
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06-22-2012, 06:38 PM
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journeyman
Join Date: Sep 2008
Posts: 358
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Re: Brad Booth's Apology to WCGrider, Others, and Poker Community
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Originally Posted by tarheelbluez
obv no one who knows about this thread with any real intelligence is gonna give him any more xfers to steal....
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FYP
Last edited by MikkeD; 06-22-2012 at 06:39 PM.
Reason: or other stuff obv
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06-22-2012, 08:34 PM
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#1030
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old hand
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: a whale's vagina
Posts: 1,757
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Re: Brad Booth's Apology to WCGrider, Others, and Poker Community
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Originally Posted by tarheelbluez
even if he never plays cards or gambles again , as long as he faces up and attempts to work and pay the debt off hes good in my eyes.
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Right. The problem is that he's clearly not doing this. He's given no indication whatsoever that he plans to "work" to pay the debt off, and all he's done is continue to gamble.
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06-22-2012, 09:02 PM
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too late axe in car
Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: angleshooting bingo sloots
Posts: 3,189
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Re: Brad Booth's Apology to WCGrider, Others, and Poker Community
Looks like he's played 5 events and min cashed in 1
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06-22-2012, 10:52 PM
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Pooh-Bah
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Buncha savages in this town.
Posts: 4,084
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Re: Brad Booth's Apology to WCGrider, Others, and Poker Community
Not enough hugs when he was a kid?
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06-23-2012, 01:46 AM
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grinder
Join Date: Feb 2008
Posts: 404
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Re: Brad Booth's Apology to WCGrider, Others, and Poker Community
Wow. Can't believe how many people are just accepting this video apology as a sincere gesture, and not the last act of a desperate man. I'm not sure which it is, but when it comes to people with "for real" addictions, gambling or otherwise, it's always hard to tell. Usually they don't even know.
Bottom line....don't support Brad Booth's habit. If he wants to gamble from now on, he has to have cash in hand. If you let him gamble without seeing money, you were in on it. You deserve your money, but you had to have known you might not get it.
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06-24-2012, 08:02 AM
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#1034
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banned
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: New Haven Ct
Posts: 4,454
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Re: Brad Booth's Apology to WCGrider, Others, and Poker Community
i dunno what to think of people who say brad should get a job, whats getting a job gonna accomplish when he owes half a million? getting a job will just give him more $$ weekly thats guaranteed that he can go to the pit and gamble to pay his debts. THats just the way it is. The only way to get outta a debt this big is thru gambling/taking shots in poker. NO other legal way exists for Brad. He is a gambler he aint gonna quit, be real guys
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06-24-2012, 10:12 AM
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#1035
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grinder
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Stall walking
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Re: Brad Booth's Apology to WCGrider, Others, and Poker Community
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Originally Posted by Mark275
i dunno what to think of people who say brad should get a job, whats getting a job gonna accomplish when he owes half a million? getting a job will just give him more $$ weekly thats guaranteed that he can go to the pit and gamble to pay his debts. THats just the way it is. The only way to get outta a debt this big is thru gambling/taking shots in poker. NO other legal way exists for Brad. He is a gambler he aint gonna quit, be real guys
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I dunno where you get the idea he owes half a million...I think he owes a lot more than that.
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