i love how this donk is described as a poker pro

My morals say if I owe money, I should pay. Especially if I can pay. Obv he collected money so people had money to pay. So they were holding out looking for a free ride until they got threatened, then money appeared. How am I suppose side with them morally?

You're a dumbass.

Most people who end up in debt and default on their unsecured loans aren't willingly doing so. They either face medical catastrophe, family tragedy, loss of work, addictions (gambling for example).

So you think it is morally correct to buy up a junk debt for fraction of the cost, then illegally threaten already broke(n) people with criminal action. No **** they might have found the money to pay being scared of jail when they are already at their worst. It is no surprise that 3 major US banks have collected 6 BILLION dollars in Overdraft fees from consumers when an average paid OD amount is $10, while the fee is $35. The whole system is ****ed beyond belief, get real.

Looks like the judge flipped his cards over


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big lol@ throwing in gambling addiction as a legit reason not to pay back debts

Gambling addiction is a disease. That 3-5% of gamblers (the problem ones) have the highest rate of suicide than all of addictions combined. So, if someone becomes sick and ends up in complete financial ruin (which once again is the addiction that has the most dire financial consequences), do you think they deserve to be threatened by criminal action by some **** breaking the law and doing the most immoral thing in the first place.

I understand that illness or other tragedy can't be controlled while choosing to gamble is a choice, however there is no difference between a heroin addiction or gambling, it destroys your life above and beyond.

Finally, we are not talking about personal debts, we are talking about debts to a financial institution who is willing to lend based on your credit history, if you don't pay those debts back, you are already facing grave consequences such as destroyed credit score, lawsuits, liens, job loss and wage assignment. That is not punishment enough?

Is this why I stopped getting collection calls from my debt from the 90's?

What you don't realize is there are statue of limitations for these so call debts. What these shady people do is they buy debts that are way over the statue of limitation and try to collect by harassment. They know it's illegal but they do it anyway. So please stop with your morality nonsense.

Lol at him crying multiple times when hearing that he was being sentenced for his crimes whilst pleading guilty.

I really hope Columbia House doesn't come after me for those CD's.

Travell played at my poker room in Niagra falls. Was loud and obnoxious but was a nice guy. Hope they are lenient with his sentence.

No, he isn't a nice guy. At all. He is a POS, in fact he might be the absolute definition of a POS.

He scammed people. Immediately dismisses him from being s nice guy


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I both resent and resemble that remark.

Which part makes him a POS? Table manners or his business manners? Because doesn't sound like he didn't say or do anything that anyone had said or done or would have done to anyone at Full tilt. Me I was a deadbeat a couple of times. I have good sounding excuses for it but, still I took money from people (a company) and didn't pay it back. I can whine and say that they were mean to me and made me sad when they tried to get me to pay it back but, I still kept the money. Debtor protection laws are mostly just to protect deadbeats, like me, from hurt feelings. Full tilt taught a lot of people what it is like to be owed money. Now in this case it looks like he did cross the line so ya he's going to jail. But I hold nothing against debt collectors.

Total piece of **** at the poker table. Good to not see him on the east coast anymore.

Welching on a loan is tantamount to theft.

NEW YORK (AP) — One of the nation’s top card players lost his poker face on Tuesday while pleading guilty in a $31 million debt collection scam.

If I paid somebody money that had lied about what the payment was actually supposedly applied am I still responsible for the original debt in full? According to some posters I could very well be. If my plan is to NEVER repay the original debt but am willing to pay the "con" payment then they are under no obligation to apply said credit to the original debt...no? Thus, this has to be illegal by these standards. Remember, my payment was never repped as applying to my debt, only the supposed phony excuse that I needed to clear another more pressing issue. Now, THAT is a con.

If I paid somebody money that had lied about what the payment was actually supposedly applied am I still responsible for the original debt in full? According to some posters I could very well be. If my plan is to NEVER repay the original debt but am willing to pay the "con" payment then they are under no obligation to apply said credit to the original debt...no? Thus, this has to be illegal by these standards. Remember, my payment was never repped as applying to my debt, only the supposed phony excuse that I needed to clear another more pressing issue. Now, THAT is a con.

A lot of addiction can get a person in debt. After all that person is a slave first and foremost. Seems like the modern world is pretty good at creating these types of slaves and keeping them in their place lol.

So it's scummy and illegal but you don't think it's a scam? The fact that the company purposely lied about who they were is a scheme.

Scummy ****

It is NOT illegal in the United States to attempt to collect on out-of-stat paper. It IS illegal to use methods prohibited by law. However, even litigation is permissible and it is incumbent upon the debtor to raise the Statute of Limitations as an affirmative defense.