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Ha hell iron drawers Shaw, now thats a nickname. I guess it would be better than pencil peter Williams or something

Anyone know why our resident poker historian was banned? So sad that Doc-T river appears to have ran him off....

perma banned for slagging off Sergeant RT on here and other forums.

continuously spamming his books.

2+2 should sign him to book deal. cmon.

Lol Mr Hughes is banned?!

Wrong.

not according to a private message I received from Johnny a few weeks ago,

"I've lost out here. Several posters say they wish I was dead. I've written a book that has all the poker history in it. Doc T. River runs TwoPlusTwo and he would not allow a well. Thanks, anyway. I'm going to winstar soon. I have reviews from Doyle Brunson and many others in the commercial marketpolace thread, and Doc T. who has read them says no one has ever heard of me. I give up. I do think most posters now hate me. At Winstar, I wanted to play 2 5 hold 'em and two guys were really cheating. showing each other their hands, touching. People complained to the house who did nothing. Too weird. The 1 3 or 1 2 has a bad structure. I used to beat Comanched Red River bad but they dropped poker. I've never lost in Oklahoma or New Mexico on a trip. Have lost one day or session. Thanks, pal. You seem to be the only one I have on here. Doc T. would never allow a well."

Again, who does Johnny Hughes think I am? Mason?

For the record, I am not Mason, my last name isn't Sklansky, I'm not a mod under any name, and I hold no power of any kind with any part of 2plus2.

Sadly, this private message shows Johnny to be delusional as I never said no one heard of him, I don't run 2plus2, and I never said he couldn't do a well because I don't have the power to deny someone a well.

Another PM I received from the venerable Johnny Hughes, hope you feel good about muzzling a true lion Doc T, you are a monster.

"I have a stalker on here named Doc T. River. He is most powerful. I would like to do a well or history thread but he will NOT allow it. Look what he has done to my book in commercial market place.f google Doc T. River poker. He plays for a dollar and challenges me to play heads up. His latest lie is that i offered him $25,0000 not to ruin every thread.. look at the post. I have spoken with law enforcement in Texas and Kansas and they agree he is a textbook stalker and might be dangerous if he gets angry at me.
Last year, I made travel plans to go the Vegas and Twoplus two's party but his strange posts me me cancel. I'd like to meet the people that I have written free for since 2007, but Doc T. will not allow that. I've been paid to write in Europe for four and a half years EVERY SINGLE MONTH.and when I was allowed to start theads here, I wrote for free.
In my book thread, it gives my reviews from Doyle, Crandell, Nolan, Anthony....the most famous assemblage of names to review any gambling book EVER.

After reading this and posting many times here, Doc T. re-posted that none of the old timers had ever mentioned me, a lie, in a comment that started "With death approaching you are....lots of insults. Then a poster said they should "put me down." On two plus two there are the worst insults of my life, sleazy, low-class talk about my death. and you want me to do WHAT?

I am donating all my book and writing income to a veteran of Iraqi Freedom. She has been diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis. That is why I feel so strongly about being totally ****ed around on my book by the boss around here. DOC T. RIVER. I appreciate your offer but it is totally ridiculous at this time.

Johnny Hughes,Ph.D."

if you miss him that much, it probably wouldn't be very hard to build a johnny hughes generator.

that is gold.

i always wondered if anyone really appreciated this guy's ridiculously long blocks of text that he posted from time to time. i couldn't get myself to read them but had nothing against the guy. father time gets to the best of us, its only a matter of time before we have stalkers and we are '.f googling' people offering them $25,0000, or even $25,00000 to stop posting anymore.

lol do you mean like some kind of mad libs story maker? that would be a HOF thread for sure.

He has an interesting, I would say mild form of paranoia based on his laughable PM's. He was given leeway that no other poster in the history of 2 + 2 was given to post his own threads and promote his merchandise. I found his stories to be ridiculous and his behavior to detractors so preposterous that he deserved all the hate he got.
He was a silly silly man and now that he is finally and deservedly gone let all threads asking where he is sink with the ship


/lock it up!

SIThomer, when you were learning how to wipe your arse Johnny Hughes was in West Texas herding burros on his poker ranch.

Loose, Doc did not run Johnny off the site. Johnny ran Johnny off the site. Of course he also thinks I run the site and am the boss and spokesperson for 2p2 so take this with a grain of salt.

He was banned for abusing the post report function and generally going completely off the rails, although he will tell you otherwise. In fact, he was actually banned long after he started telling people he was banned. He might be precognitive. He foresaw his own meltdown and eventual banning.

I could also prove that he's lying about the $25K thing (he tried to start an NVG thread doing exactly that, offering Doc T money not to post in his threads anymore - I'm the mod who deleted that thread), but this has reached the too sad to be funny stage, TBH. Before he was banned he sent some bizarre and partially incoherent PMs and emails to several mods that make me wonder if he isn't suffering from some form of dementia. While I wasn't a fan of his writing, I hope he gets treatment and finds some kind of happiness.

he is old. your point? it wasnt his material that pissed me off but his attitude of superiority and those ****ing hearts

Not sure how much more time I'll spend on this, but Johnny never offered me $25k to stop posting in his threads and I never said he did. He offered me $25 in a post I saw in his commercial marketplace thread and I said I wouldn't stop even if he offered me a thousand times more. It's a matter of principle. I did offer to stop if he played me heads up and won, but I said his right to post would have to be on the line, too. He never responded.

At least I finally know what Johnny meant when he suggested people google Doc T River poker and laugh. He's talking about my tournament results which show I generally played $1.25 buy-ins, but that was because I never had a big bankroll online and was playing what I felt my bankroll would allow. I also liked the structure of the tournaments.

I never said "with death approaching you are....." Do a search here and you'll see that's true.

Loose Caboose, you shouldn't believe everything Johnny tells you.

I agree with Sgt that I think Johnny is suffering from some form of dementia and I too hope he gets treatment.

The good old barking iron.
Have no problem with his "lessons" in history.

maybe hes just really good at trolling

I had always kind of been a SGT RJ hater. Until now...

So, he might be a bit out of it. So What? I like his threads that he started on Poker History and look forward to getting his book as a Christmas present. I think he should be unbanned.

This is pretty much the reason he lasted as long as he did. Unfortunately you and other non-mods that think he should be unbanned are running with incomplete information and will probably out of privacy concerns, never see the entire picture.

ban sgt rj she is nut worst person.

bring back johnny hughes

If possible, I think the posts from the bump on need to be split off and a new thread created in ATF with an appropriate title like Power Mad Sgt RJ* Banned Johnny Hughes.

The remaining thread here in NVG should be locked up.

As far as Johnny coming back goes, I don't care and have no say in the matter. I'll leave the decision in the hands of the people who have the power and know more of the picture than I.