If these people would talk to PS, could they close down his account?

Why would PS care about players loaning eachother money , paying it back or not.
Also there is no contract or anything legally binding, transfer history + chat logs are maybe enough to prove that u did loan money to somebody , but I doubt that PS would close someones acc because they didn't honor their word.

Lol b12 absolutely crushed highstakes hu sngs, what happened he quit cu he couldnt get action? The man went into full degen mode and 4 tabld 200 400 deep with isildur, just an idiot.

Im sure he learnd a valuable lesson out of all this and i think he'lll pay everyone all at once when he gets it all + some for himself to play with, he just got carried away and lost control- it happens. happened to me twice, and i overcame it, he could too.

If he was DESPERATE and in fullblown desperatiion mode he could 16 table 1/2 cash blinds and do that for 1 month and since hes SNE he will get a 20k cash bonus.

who told u he crushed?

I don't think PS gets involved in personal debts. If you had some sort of court order judgement you might be able to claw some money from someone's Stars account, similar to how you could a bank account, but Stars isn't going to likely look at anything other than a court order from a relevant jurisdiction (such as where the player lives), if at all. I don't know this for sure, but the chances that Stars gets involved here is less than 1% based on the information in this thread.

Mark, I thought he was always known as a good player, but one that played tons of regs all the time. He once had something like a 300k month too. Dec 2010 maybe?

Meh.

He's playing the $100 HU hypers right now

A fyi bump

isn't berndsen a woman? why is everyone referring to this person as a male?

The plot thickens

highstakes database uses this image:


i'm pretty sure that's a male.


also: you leveling?

he looks trustworthy

And? "a little over 2 months" became about 4 months.

Hello 2+2, as there has been many speculation concerning this issue I feel like its time for a public statement from me.
The current situation is that i have significant lower amount of liferoll then the money I owe, i've had contact with the people involved and we agreed that i would grind with the money i currently have, and will make payments to them untill the debt is gone.
What happened is that while i owed a lot of money, i went on an enourmous life tilt where i tilted my entire life-roll away. Leaving me with a lot of debt and barely any money. I want to be clear that i never loaned any money when i didnt have more, or equall money behind. Nor any reason to think i would not be able to pay back. As I owe almost all the money to close friends, i would never intentionally screw them over. I just made one giant mistake. However i do take full responsibility for what happened, and will do everything in my power to make it right. Also in hind-sight, i might have thought to little of some of the debts, and should have made more effort to pay them back earlier, when i still had the money. Owing this much is just never a good idea.
Also i want to be clear I'm not trying to make excuses, or trying to victimize myself.

Sincerely,

Berndsen12

That's just messed up I honestly don't understand how someone can tilt off the whole roll? Didn't you have it on various sites, bank etc. ? And it seems that the "life tilt" lasted for quite a long time, wasn't one time mistake...

It's suprisingly easy to get on money to gamble if you want to. I had wasted a 6 figure bank account in 1 night.

Although I'm pretty sure everybody would agree that the statement would have been better a few months ago I still wish you good luck to make things right...

Poker community in general is too forgiving and takes these matters way too easy. Someone rips people off multiple times and after a long time comes and posts that he is trying to fix things sure is better than not doing so. People are like ohhh he is so awesome and good person trying to pay back his debts. IRL he would be in jail getting butt raped multiple times every day for this kind of ****.

And lol at Berndsen trying to sugarcoat this whole mess saying that he only ripped off close friends. OP is no way close friend of his.

As I think we've spoken about a little before in some games, I think part of the reason you are so tilted is due to the Dutch tax regulations. Even when you crushed the biggest games at the start of the year, you did so without a care because you couldn't really make the most of the cash or move up systematically due to the Dutch law. That could have been mis-reported but iirc it was from an interview with you.

Anyways, I would suggest that if that issue affects you that much, relocate where that will no longer be a worry.

If relocation isn't possible, remember 50-70% of something is still enough to have a sick life. Get your debts paid off as soon as possible (but playing within br limits - you owe it to them not to bust) and start again on your own. When you win, buy some things and enjoy the money, don't just move up. Eventually you'll realise that poker is just a job and you'll enjoy winning and have no desire to gamble. At least that's the hope.

Hope it goes well, for everybody's sake.

Yeah, it was me..

So many people love to stick the boot in when someone takes a fall.
Berndsen admitted he made a mistake. He took responsibility for it. The rest is between him and his backers isn't it?

not always..

I knew $4.50 was too cheap for a blowjob but curiosity got the best of me

EDIT: Nevermind

not the first time degenerate tendencies have got the best of a poker player, won't be the last!

care to explain how you have no money to pay back loans, yet enough to spew off playing short handed 50/100 plo?