Well, a lot of the players were playing on the big 3 networks on 4/15/11
Am I lucky? Yup. But not much luckier than getting my FT money.
I knew the risk of AP/UB but they had just been too good to me in the past not to play there. I made most of my money on AP and they were always reaching out to me to giving me bonuses, higher rb, 9%interest on balance, free 100k entries, 8k comped tournament in Aruba, special support phone numbers, hookers (i refused, not a prostitute type of guy but ty!), weed (i didn't refuse), beers, laughs etc.
They would always invite to fly me out to Costa Rica. I only went twice but both were crazy. First time I actually hung out with Scott Tom at a bar although there were body guards of his very close by. He was pretty cool and kinda ripped. Hot wife but off to the side dancing with her friends. It was weird tho because he knew my screen name and then super-used me later for 5k @ huhu flh. AP refunded the money and called to apologize and offered to fly me out to costa rica for another party.
This was halloween and now I had a body guard in this club we were at. I took some extra curriculars and needed some water and nearly passed out. But the body guard caught me. Now I knew why he was there. This time they set me up in a phat hotel much better than the last. They were worried and blamed the super-using on another guy named Russ. White lie I guess.
I forgave them a long time ago. They were over-leveraged just like FT and the writing was on the wall, but it's so easy to see the writing on the wall after the fact.
I even forgive Scott. He sucks at poker but I got my money back and think of how much I made on AP compared to my refund I'm getting back? Also, think about his legal nightmare and how many people think he's a bad person. Subtract the US intervention and he coulda scaled down rewards and turned the balance sheets in a positive direction. It's not like he had to pay Fergusen 8 figures a year.
Obviously, I forgive Maynor and his whole crew of friends who I partied with.
Playing AP was happiest times of my poker career. Things will never ever be that good.
Sorry I just watched "story of online poker" on hulu and felt need to share
That's my cool 6 years or so.
Last edited by LETIGRA; 07-25-2017 at 11:34 PM.