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Originally Posted by thatpfunk
so you guys were staking him $100k to play $5/10 but he had the money to be able to to play someone at $50/100 if you didnt want the action?
There was always the presumption that he had money, and it is misleading to say that we were staking him $100k to play 5/10 (I address this in one of my responses in this thread in detail, and even quote the contract we e-mailed amongst each other).
The impression he gave us is that he had 500k+ offline that he did not want to risk or be emotionally invested in when playing. He has told me he will be able to prove offline funds to Noah, but I cannot say for sure until he actually does it. But the acting presumption was that he fully possessed enough money to do this without a problem. This was the presumption behind the Isildur challenge as well - that was to be all his own action, and I told him that if he put up the $150k to play him, despite the -EV it may have ended up being well worth it for the publicity and the chance he won.
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Originally Posted by dstock
Wouldn't transferring 40k back to the SamChauhan account be a reg flag?
Plus the timing and the nature of the dump might have made Lock look deeper into Jose's account, uncovering the different IP addresses?
I digress, FWIW, I know you have all of this anger and hate directed towards you, hell I'm guilty of some of it also, but you are not unredeemable, even your poker career is not, if you so chose.
Even Jose is not lost, you guys are young men surrounded by large amounts of money, which can even make older (wiser) men make horrible decisions. Even if the most improbable of the tall tales being thrown around were true,( of course they're not) it still would not change the fact that you can grow and learn from your mistakes.
Good luck to you Haseeb, Daniel, and Jose. I am off back to drilling oil wells,( my profession before online poker and once again since BF)
We assumed that the chip dump had been completely ignored and was presumed as legitimate. Up until this scandal, as far as I'm aware Lock never investigated the match, or if they did they couldn't find anything.
As far as your second point, I agree, but they probably weren't automatically cross-referencing IP's between who logged into Jose's account and what other accounts they owned on Lock. Also even if they did, they probably wouldn't give out screennames or any such thing. They may have also assumed that the match was legitimate even given the details involved. It would be very difficult for them to prove anything. That's part of the nature of poker.
Thank you for your kind words. I will no longer be staying in the poker world, but I appreciate it nevertheless. I hope that Jungle himself will have a long and less eventful career moving forward, haha.
As far as doing a live interview, I've talked this over with a couple of friends. I think I will be willing to do one live interview regarding all of this, only under the condition that Vanessa interviews me herself. She's been one of my most vocal disparagers through all of this, so I think she owes me at least facing me in all of this.
If this can be arranged within the next day or two, I would be happy to do this. I intend to leave on the road towards France after that and begin my travels.