lol - there are probably people who would, yes.

Sucks what happened op, is there any updates to ur situation.

I have won a couple hundred k on merge this year, and then also had money i had put on there and a high number of stakes as well. I was in the process of trying to remove my funds, and then I had heard news of the lock/cake merger, and was trying to move myself to a more secure situation given the amount of money I had on there. They have a withdrawal limit of 10k per withdrawal that goes through every couple of weeks. That limit was 4k for a long time. Ive been trying to get all of my money off of merge for basically forever, and most of the transfers are at 90c/$1 which I didn't want to take part in, being that I am not in a situation where I need cash immediately.

I wasn't with Brad when he had the money, my friend was. I assumed he was good for it because he was well known and i was not. So an opportunity to try and remove some lock poker money seemed like a good situation for me. I made a mistake, and I have been forthright about this throughout the thread. However people that dont understand why I would even trade at all, have not had situations where they had to move large quantities of money, it is very difficult and the sites oftentimes make it hard for you to get your money quickly.

Seriously how much of a fool must you be to send that amount of money to someone you hardly even know

Honestly people are so thick it is beyond comprehension

You fully deserve what you got

Seems to be a discrepancy between what I have heard on the 2p2 pokercast - Brad is a great guy - and the truth of the situation as told in the 2p2 forums. I strongly suspect this isn't the only old school tv pro this discrepancy applies to. New school players clearly need to be less respectful of the reputations of players portrayed in the poker media.

This viewpoint always somewhat perplexes me. I have to imagine that there is an element of hatred/jealousy that incites this type of response.

I am doing the 2+2 community a favor by letting them know what has happened. I am trying to prevent this from happening to other people and also trying to take appropriate recourse to solve the issue. I have already admitted that I made a mistake in sending first here, but I did not know as to Brad Booths reputation. Why are you attacking me when i got scammed and attempting to help myself and others in this situation?

This is because you're not a psychopath. When you see a redic response in nvg, just put the person on ignore.

dude, dont kill youself, ok? like every post of you is about, how sad poker / FTP makes you

@WCG: hope you get your money back. crown holder deserves that !

+1 I told you earlier WCG, ignore the cretins. They have this image in their head that they know the world better than anyone and you're a fool for any decision you make. Or they're trolling. Either way, just ignore them.

Well you did flaunt that Stars LEATHER (Yeah, that's right LEATHER!) jacket pretty hard a few years ago.

What perplexes normal people is what the *** went through you're mind to lend someone money who you dont even know.

I dont see Harold from neigbours and say

"Oh Hi Harold you are a decent chap have my car house kids and girlfriend,See you next week with the cheque"

I hope you get repaid and use the money to buy some common sense

Yeah he has no reason to attack you like this, but I do agree its silly to trust someone you hardly know with so much money. Seems all these threads have one thing in common, a leap of faith for a large sum of money to a stranger. Yeah its the same thing in the HSNL xfer thread at times, but you wouldn't swap money and send first to anyone without an absolutely perfect reputation with multiple references.

I dont see why you didn't just meet him somewhere with an internet connection and make him show you the monies before you transfer.

I am doing him a favour not attacking him.

I guess I could be like 90% of the people in the thread saying

"There,There,Hope You Get Repaid"

I honestly hope he gets repaid and doesnt do something so stupid again...
But you need to be Cruel to be kind,Probably not how it is appearing but I do hope he gets it back!

dude this sucks, what a scumbag.

the question is, how much does 28k mean to your financial situation?

the more significant % of your net worth it is, the more I sympathize...

Because WCG's very close friend essentially vouched for Brad. It was a mis-judgement on his part, but it happens.

He wasn't trusting someone he doesn't know. He was essentially trusting his good friend who said "Hey Brad Booth is looking for Merge for cash. I played 25/50/100 with him the other day and he had $XX,XXX on him...So he should be good for it."

Regardless, WCG has already admitted that he probably shouldn't have made the transfer. And the thread is merely here to let other people know to not make the same mistake.

Brad owes money to people who have staked him and who he's borrowed from. To whoever posted that "some old rich guy" stakes him, that is incorrect. Guy Laliberte USED to stake Brad Booth, but no longer.