It's strange how no one is putting any weight into the respected posters vouching for Mer just because they can't be certain beyond any shadow of a doubt or show you proof of anything. I understand why people are suspicious, but take 10 minutes and think things through.

I've spoken with Mer many, many times. Though I've also never met her, I'm not a stupid person. I would be completely shocked (less than .5%) if she weren't who she claims to be, and she wasn't the one playing on her account.

I'm not sure what incentive she would have to be lying to me, as I've never given her anything in the 2-3 years I've known her, including poker advice. She's never asked. I've spoken with her for countless hours on skype and aim. I can hear tables in the background too. Was some kind of fake girl stand-in really sitting at a computer 10 hours a day and talking to everyone so that one day people like me could come into a thread like this and defend her?

Daut, Mig, among others, have come into this thread defending her, and I'm sure would be as confident as me. These are intelligent people.

How likely is it that this isn't really a girl playing on the account, and that me, Daut, and Mig (and many more more) were all fooled by a fake person? .2%? Let's be generous to the doubters and say 2%

Now how likely is it that that person would risk their master scam for whatever it pays to be a PokerStars Online Pro? 10% (10% of 2% = .2%)

Next, how likely is it that a billion dollar company like Pokerstars, would either knowingly hire a cheater for whatever small gain in publicity it gets them, OR would not be able to tell through investigation that multi-accounting or a fake identity kind of thing was going on? 1%? (1% of .2% = .002%)


I know 2+2 loves scandals, and I think it's the online poker community's duty to investigate suspicious activity. But let's have some kind of evidence to start, or at least, let's not drag someone's name through the mud before some kind of investigation.

Let's find and prosecute cheaters, absolutely. But come on. As far as I can see, there is no more evidence than Mer is in any way a cheater than any other reg in the 2+2 community. The dates of her and BradL's accounts playing MTTs seem more like evidence against anything shady going on than the other way around.

She seems dumb in an interview so she can't be decent at poker? I know she might not sound it, but Mer is extremely smart (just in different ways than your average poker player).

She has legitimate reasons for wanting her privacy, and for not travelling to live events. She's shared those reasons with me. I obviously won't betray her trust, but I hope my reputation in the community is at least strong enough that this will satisfy some of you.

On top of that, she's a really good person. I know nothing will come of any investigation into her, and she won't lose her Stars deal or anything, but I still hate to see her name getting trashed and her being forced to defend herself in the meantime. It must be miserable for her.

Look, if she wanted to pull some kind of scam, should could have easily borrowed $100k from me and run away. Probably could have gotten at least $500k between all the people who trust her fully. Unless she's working on the longest and most complex con I've ever heard of, it's not possible that me and so many others are being tricked.

I don't hope to stop you guys from looking into things, but please stop the bashing until you have any kind of real evidence, and be respectful to someone who's never done anything negative to you.

If there was someone else behind this, they would've also know about 2+2. The only way the comment about 'the other site' means anything is if different people were posting on the forums w/out collaborating with each other.

So who were you really skyping with for LHE advice?

Not taking sides or anything but Pokerstars didn't have a Mac client until 2007.

ask her to take sheets' offer, problem solved and 2p2 will have the egg on their face and not her, but if she doesnt then she basically adds fuel to an already raging fire ...

also FWIW tweets and tourney overlaps are kind of iffy dont u think?

http://www.pocketfives.com/f7/peachy...ml#post3461242

QFunrealirony...vwp sirswish

And you're right, that thread has an incredible amount of gold in it, including more Daut condescension and 100% guarantees of Peachymer's legitimacy.

hai

How can you have followed this thread and still think the issue is whether or not a girl exists? even for most doubters it's clearly a question of at what point did she or did she not play on the account.

none of the vouching answers any of those questions.

a "reasonable" attempt to explain the early opr is that she was taught by BradL (offered by one of those vouchers), except it appears she doesn't acknowledge his existence in her poker learning world and didn't offer that herself, and it looks like there are conflicting posts by her as to whether they even dated.

Simple consistent explanations other than an inordinate number of people saying "oh I'm sure it's her but yeah never met either" are the only way this gets answered- and that hasn't really been attempted in a thread that at its core is attempting to market someone nobody in the poker world appears to have met.

Okay she exists. That still leaves the same unanswered questions.

full on double rainbow

from quoted post peachymer says:

Complain all you want, please email the sites, numerous people sponsored at both sites know me personally so Im sure your opinion will outweigh the information they have, including my IP information. I just really cant believe this is even being implied

who these people man?? or is personally= skypelly ??

Jman, why receive transfers and be outted as a scam artist when you can pose as someone you aren't and play undercover and make bank off of mtts from idiots instead where you can't be outed?

Jman, obv think you're the sickest, blah blah. I'll offer you the same bet I made to Nano though earlier in the thread if you'd like to book.

It's strange how everyone who has skyped/close with her still can't take a step back and at least comprehend that something doesn't add up.

Also as far as she told you reasons for not wanting to play live and wanted to keep privacy... just lol. She can't at least say the reason, one that makes logical sense?

Also what about the tweets/OPR stats???

Also there are ways to confirm its her pretty much without invading privacy to try to end this but nothing has been done, and her responses have been not good for her case.

Sounds like your freerolling in that bet AK. How will we ever find out 100% that she is controlling the account?

Everyone who is coming to defend "her" has never met "her". What they know about "her" is what "she" told them.

To borrow from Jman, I'll give it a 1% chance that a poker player could play for 3+ years, talk to all these top pros, and yet never meet any of them in person.

I'll give it a < 5% chance that "Mer" talking in that interview is the one controlling the Peachy account. She apparently has an unbelievable memory outside of poker but when poker comes up she can't remember screen names or even FTs from less then a week ago. That is some type of amazing feat.

Just use a little common sense. Nobody has met her, all they know of her is what they she told them. I'm not saying BradL is playing that account but no way Peachy is the girl in that interview, "Mer Brit"

I'd be happy to bet if there were an actual way to prove you wrong. If you went to her house and watched her play for 2 weeks, you could still claim she was being ghosted in the past and now has learned a little bit.

She does some kind of interview where her poker talk is sufficient, she shows up at a live tourney, she actually meets someone who can vouch for her being the one clicking buttons, etc.

Did she actually talk about poker in an intelligent way? No one is arguing that a girl who claims to be peachy exists. It's whether she plays on her account especially at fts.

I mean I assume discretion will be used like in all disputes on 2p2. If it ever reaches a point where we are in dispute about some technicality we can leave it up to popular opinion on who is right.

that is ridiculous...I have talked to a ton of players virtually for years and have met almost none of them in person (I am smart though...the only one I have met is Todd so I am safe from him investigating my realness)

I thought witness protection might be a possibility, but...


She shouldn't have started multiple wells then and now when it was everything that everyone wanted to know was not something she wanted to discuss.

If she wanted privacy, then she shouldn't have joined 2+2 / P5s... Or, she shouldn't have started a well, then another, the apply for Team Online, accept and start another well.

If she wanted to remain private, she shouldn't have created the PeachyMer 2+2 account There were many times that she couldn't ceased the communication, but it was not too intelligent to become a member of Team Online and then start a well if you wanted to remain anonymous.

Exercise common sense or prepare to suffer the consequences. The consequences may not be just, but what was she to expect to come of the choices she made in the last week? When did you purchase your first camera? What part of photography fascinated you into it becoming a fixture in your life? Favorite pic that you've ever taken?

I mean if she wants to settle this, she needs to do some sort of live interview soon, where discusses several different poker hands/ situations. I'm guessing this should be sufficient, based on the pokernews interview

She'll never have an interview where she sounds like she knows how to play. She probably will show up at a live tourney in the next few years, but I'm surprised you'd take that as proof.