There's no doubt I've made an insane amount of mistakes in my life especially when I was very young. I started playing online poker seriously when I was 12 years old, and I never had any guidance. I got addicted to drugs very young and overall I've ****ed up an insane amount of things. It haunts me every day the things I've done to people, and I truly truly have every intention to make it right, but it's going to be a LONG process. I have no excuses to make, and I hope nobody reads this post and thinks that's what I am doing, making excuses to people why they haven't gotten paid. I just want to be honest and let people know what is going on.

I still cannot walk. When I jumped from that 6 story building, I was VERY lucky to live. I broke more bones than I can count, and I've had 50+ surgeries, multiple life threatening infections, and rigorous physical therapy over the years. My family also does not have money at all. My parents passed when I was very young, and I live with my Grandmother. The very small amount of money I receive from disability goes to my health insurance (Medicare, not medicaid), I pay $200 a month for, and they don't cover nearly everything, helping my Grandma support me, and whatever Medicare doesn't cover. I had Medicaid for a while which covered 100%, but I now have Medicare for quite a while now which unfortunately does not.

I am working my ass off in physical therapy, and I am working my ass off to better myself as a person. I see a councilor, and I have a couple close friends I constantly talk with who I trust, and have the best intentions for me, and they help me as well.

I am 23 years old now. When most of the bad things I've done happened I was 18 or younger, and was as mature as a 15 year old, with an ego of someone much older and much more successful. I really only have myself to blame for most of the stuff I've done. I am not trying to make any excuses for the things I have done in the past. I own up to everything I have done to harm people.

I truly believe that everyone owed will get their money, but I cannot possibly give a timetable on that. It may be many many years before it happens. Right now all I can do is continue to work on myself. The first step is getting to a place where I no longer need medical attention, and I can be independent.

I am working hard toward that goal. There are many reasons why it has taken so long. I've had many problems with insurance, meaning multiple times I've been out of therapy for 1-2+ months at a time without a way to get in or a way to pay for it. I also had extremely extensive damage, and a couple very bad life threatening infections where I've almost lost my foot or worse. Right now I am past all of that, and I am done with surgeries. It's just working hard in physical therapy and getting walking.

I am extremely determined to pay everyone and become a functioning member of society. Again, it really may take a long time, but I am very confident in myself that I can do it. I refuse to allow myself to fail people again, and myself, as I have before.

I am sorry for how long this post is, but I feel like I owed some people this post. I am always reachable via email etc. and I do talk to people owed. I wish I had more to tell people, but I just want to be honest and lay my situation out there for everyone.

With all that being said, I am going to arrange a small payment in the next week. I will reach out to everyone for payment, and Tammy will handle sending it out. I want this to be a good faith payment to let people know I am not giving up on paying them, and I absolutely never will. I've saved up a small amount of money over the last few months since I have less doctor bills now than I did before. I will be paying a couple hundred dollars total. I know it's not much, but again I want to do my best, and give a good faith payment.

I really don't like reading and posting in this thread at all. I already feel horrific about the things I've done. I know I deserve every negative comment I get, but I also know that if I just dwell on all of the negativity I will never be able to get past it. I just am trying to man the **** up and get things done essentially. This is the reason I don't reply to people in this thread. If you want to contact me, I am still easily reachable at my email address or if you have my Skype. You can PM me if you don't have either of those.

I will try to post in this thread once in a great while like I do now, but people owed can contact me literally any time.

I hope this wasn't too long of a ramble. I just felt like I needed to get everything in the open, and just type what came to my mind.

-Brandon Barnes

Brandon has reached out to me to make things right. Obviously I don't think what he has done to the community is right but after all it does seem like he is trying to make things right.

If anyone wants to sell send me a PM.

Lots of teenagers are idiots but parameters also exist so that they're not taken seriously or have the capacity to do anything too ruinous (asides car crash sorts of antics). Your ego issues (back then) are just typical dumbass kid that doesn't know anything at all...

The people who shipped you $$ were equally morons and frankly handing off anything more than 20 bucks to a teenager is just stupid.

Common sense didn't prevail here.

You should make some drastic life course correction imo and bail on all of this stuff.
1) Your reputation is beyond shot.
2) You will never get this stuff payed off.
3) The $$ involved likely has created many hard feelings.
4) Your life will develop and $$ will be required before you get anywhere close to paying it back. It takes a long while, living a normal life, to having many thousands of dollars disposable money to just hand out. Nobody is going to want to be associated with you if you have some major debt beyond the typical debts you're going to have.
5) It's best to just walk and never gamble again. -- This is your trouble right here, probably thinking you'll be able to gamble again "smart" and course correct and get people payed back and whatnot. This is not going to work out imo. You have to many obvious issues for this to occur.

Paying anything back to anybody is dead money for you imo. You already fell off a building or whatever, you ought to rehab and then disappear.

Just my 02c.

Pretty much . The real villains here have always been the guys that staked a mixed up 12 year old to play poker and whoever staked him for live MTTs as a tactic to grind his way out of the initial mess leading to the carpark jump. The staking industry is scummy


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This guy had it right over 3 years ago.

if you make a payment. hope you arent paying zima

gl brandon

Nice post B.

Are you planning on going back to poker or getting a job to pay people back?

Hope he is getting this right and sent out money last week. Am guessing with zero updates the answer is still no.

you sound like an idiot, people weren't seeking him out and begging him to play for them, he was someone who had a decent aim list and knew how to network and kiss ass so he'd find morons to stake him, he may want to debate this but his mtt numbers speak for themselves. I guess he did okay bum hunting heads up but I was in prison when that happened and still don't believe it was anything other then run good.

i think he owes zima/elio 15k. please feel free to send that directly here as zima owes me 300k+.

Thanks.

Has anyone been paid any sort of large sum lately? Or are we all still getting his lame excuses?

^why do you even care? The sheer fact that you type "lame excuses" indicates you have zero idea of this situation.

Kids owed me money for years and is up 45K on one screen name. So again, has anyone been paid more than little amounts of money? Even if he was backed, that's almost half the amount owed. Has he paid even $10K back? Seems doubtful.

Why don't you go visit him in Michigan and see how great is life is, how much money he has and ask him about his "lame excuses?"

So it's ok this degenerate POS is still gambling, up a very siginificant amount of money, and has barely paid anyone back? I'm sure he doesn't have other SN's and play on Bovada either right?

You keep track, so you know the answer, has he paid back even $10K? If he hasn't.......... that's pretty sad and shows he doesn't care at all and never intends to pay. Wish I would have known this was him when he got 2nd in a $215 for $20K.

You make assumptions and that's all you've got. Like I said, go sit with him. Know him. Know his life. The fact that he cares to pay and has at all says a lot about his character. Compassion is > money.

Welching on over $60,000 in money you stole while still gambling and making LOTS of money makes you a POS.

Answer my question, has he even paid back $10K. After all these years of him still gambling he could have done that, has he? Show us proof that he has, because I've barely been paid anything.

He literally just won 20 ****ing thousands dollars, did he take even $5K to pay anyone?

Hi Brandon

Guy is a massive scam artist. You could easily say he's only paying people small amounts to get backed again.

So it doesn't get burried.

Where's everyone's money, Brandon?

A post made <2 hours ago isn't getting "burried", so it doesn't need to be bumped.

As for your post, I assume the allegation is that these are recent winnings?

No allegation, it's a fact and all within the last year. If he'd like to dispute it, many people have screen shots of his skype convos with him talking about it. He won $20K less than 2 months ago for a 2nd place finish in the $215 $150K on WPN. He's also had many other big scores and plays thousands of dollars in MTTs a week every week.