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Originally Posted by relaxursoul
Are you saying that after Jason decided to stake you, which requires some level of trust, he then immediately accused you of stealing after your first losing session, even though you were the one trying to protect him by telling others to stop stealing from him? Maybe I’m misinterpreting or missing something as this seems hard to believe, can you please provide more details?
Not quite, we met at EPT San Remo which launched his poker career with a win, then we played and hung out a bit at LAPT Uruguay. He was looking to stake a bunch of people it seemed, and I was on a bit of a downswing so I didn't mind moving up a bit and he took some of my action online. I was up once i got to the PCA, and he was only taking action for a few weeks or so I believe.
Basically the night before day 1, He gave me a decent chunk of change for a bigger game than at the time I'd be playing, still under the stake. He didn't really say anything, and honestly this was a year removed from his big cash so he was probably nieve with staking and the shadiness involved (at least to an extent). So the night before, I got into a huge hand, big cooler, I can't recall the hand but I had a set of queens lol (it's been like 6 yrs so sorry lol). It was close and I made the wrong decision and ended up losing a pretty big hand.
Dude comes to my door next morning right before the ****ing 10k starts, with his girlfriend, accusing me of stealing his $!. I was shocked, it was insane... I told him that he's out of his mind. He requested that I give him part of the makeup for the loss, and I essentially said fine and **** off.
Now, ironically, I was acquainted with an individual who either was ripping him off in one way or another or just outright stealing... And I told him to stop and that it's a piece of **** move. Beyond that, wtf could I do, and I told him what I thought and to keep that **** away from me. I also wasnt going to snitch; I knew this acquaintance...an acquaintance.... maybe 20x more than I knew Jason at the point.
A year later, Jason mentioned this to one of my buddies, and a dude that I taught in his earlier years as he transitioned from low-stakes winner to solid pro (Frank Calo, aka FrankTheTank). I contacted Jason online a week after the PCA letting him know he was ****ing wrong, but essentially tried to make peace with the dude.
So... a year later, he relays to Frank that I'm some sort of scammer, and that I gave him a "sob story"??. According to Frank, he let him know what the deal was - paid him the $ that I "owed" him (parentheses because I should have told him to **** off since I didn't actually owe him a dime but was willing to eat part of the loss...). Also, I never ducked him, I forgot and so did he it seems, as he never mentioned it. I paid Frank, of course - but I was kinda pissed that I had to so at that point given how he framed me as a scammer.
I never got to know Jason very well, but honestly, it was just cordial and then rapidly insane. He did not monitor his stakees, had no real system, no real method to his staking and I guarantee he been taken advantage of by plenty.
He might be an OK guy, I don't really know the dude. But this is what happened. Some of the minor details I'm sure might be a tad off (it's been years....), but not the major details.
I really kinda wanted to just crack him once I heard what he said about me to a good friend at the time, but it's far in the past and just hope he uses his brain a bit more in these kinds of scenarios.
It was also ****ed up because it totally threw me off for the first levels of the PCA, where ironically I sat across from one of the cowboy full tilt scammers all day prior to black friday of course...
Anyway, that's the deal - it's long in the past but figured it couldn't hurt to share, and Jason - in the unlikely event that you happen to read this; man the **** up and admit you ****ed up...