Name: Travis Klein
Stars: SuperFlyFTW
Skype: travis.klein2
Player had earlier completed a brief stake with us, then found me on Skype on May 18 to ask me to stake him again for mid-stakes 9-man SNGs on Stars. Despite communication being poor during the last stake, I agreed since he was a reputable member of the SNG community and committed to a high volume.
Communication remained quite poor, with the player failing to reply to emails seeking to clarify profit/loss and transfers. On June 9, he sent an email to end the stake, despite being in $2675 of make-up at the time. He wrote: “The stake is pointless ... If I chose not to play for a week or answer emails about poker then thats just how it is.”
The contract the player signed prohibited him from quitting while in makeup, which he fully acknowledged: “I am going to repay the stake of what I owe left, $2,675 by either tomorrow or latest thursday.”
On June 16, he transferred $1300 over Paypal, promising to send the rest soon. Then he fell out of contact again until June 30, when he claimed that he would send the other half “by end of next week.”
We didn’t hear from him until he wrote back on July 9 with the cryptic note:
“should of kept me on a stake man, sorry....”
I checked and he was up well over $5k since ending the stake (it was only a couple of days ago that he blocked his Sharkscope stats), so I asked him to send the remainder of what he owed. He wrote “When I make the money I will send it, so no can’t today.” When I pointed out how much he was up recently, he wrote: “yea went on a sick run, glad i ended the stake and didn't reup again. yea i'll send it over stars soon”
When he still didn’t send the following week, I told him on July 16 that if he didn’t send the money, I would have no choice but to take the situation public.
He wrote back:
no i dont have it but when I do i will send it, and bring whatever you want ‘public’ it doesn't bother me in the least bit, actually the threat just annoyed me, probably not your best option Collin. -- Trav
I delayed posting when he sent $250. When I pressed him to send the rest however, he told me it wouldn’t be until he had “got up 100 buyins.” I told him I expected the money by the end of the week or I was planning to post on 2+2, and he wrote back:
Again, I'll send as I get over 100 buyins, that might happen tomorrow It might not. Post whatever you want, it won't bother me in the least at all. I can't take out money without being over 100 buyins, whether that takes me a month, 2 months, 3 months, I don't know how you expect someone to just come up with 3 grand in a month but now you are annoying me and just because you are threatening some "post" I am not sending anything for another week.
As more whatever, "post" threats come, the delay will be a further week for subsequent events.
Travis
Based on the threat of purposefully delaying payment in this last email, I felt I had no choice but to make the post now and advise other backers not to stake this player. I will update this post if/when I receive the remaining $1125 owed.
EDIT(RW) SEE http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/sh...&postcount=691
Last edited by Rainbow Warrior; 11-17-2010 at 05:56 AM.
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