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Originally Posted by Fitzcat
Yes, I was well aware if HIV's degen tendencies, but I'd never heard even rumor of him being unethical/stealing money. There's a big difference. I really don't know the kid very well, but if you go look at my reference for him you'll see only the truth - I loaned him money once, which I pretty much never do, and he paid it back. I'm out almost $5k here myself.
As far as "sketchily pimps out his friend", well, I guess you're showing your true colors here too, huh? Let's just make inflammatory, unsubstantiated comments... I'll just echo another poster responding to your bump in the grudge map thread. "Very bad form, Gild."
Feel free to PM me if you want to discuss it more, and leave whatever personal beef you have with me out of this thread.
Full disclosure: I don't know you and don't hate you and have no personal feelings against you and all my interactions with you on 2p2 have been pleasant up until I have seen this farce of a thread. I am just more shocked in your lapse in judgement in recommending someone like HIV so highly and with no qualifications.
Here is what you are saying now "I really don't know the kid very well, but if you go look at my reference for him you'll see only the truth - I loaned him money once, which I pretty much never do, and he paid it back."
Here is what you said earlier... "I
absolutely trust him". These are just about the strongest words you can say about someone in internet poker. You also have a very solid reputation as one of the best limit players in the world and people obviously look up to you in forums like this. When you say you "absolutely trust" someone that carries a lot of weight in a forum based on random internet people trusting people they've never met. If you had started off the sentence with "well, I don't really know him and we only traded once" do you see what a HUGE difference is from the language you used?
What annoys me (again, nothing personal) is that you absolutely knew about the stuff that went down with HIV years ago and that he has a history of being shady/a huge degen on 2p2 but you didn't even mention it in your recommendation. You gave him a highly positive, unqualified recommendation. I'm not sure how you can claim ignorance of his past when you were very active in the HIV grudgematch threads in BBV back in the day. By ignoring pretty well known facts (he instantly takes tourney winnings right to the highest stakes pokerstars limit games...hmmmmmmm, he has no money management skills, he has tried to cheat people out of money/EV in the past and laughed about it and never expressed any remorse for it, he has refused to pay people back in the past and he has essentially spent the last few years as a broke railbird) that newer posters would not know, you are essentially selling an inferior bill of goods based on your stellar reputation, thus "sketchily pimping".
Last edited by Gildwulf; 06-30-2010 at 05:52 PM.