iirc he is running a charity for aspiring Highstakes Poker players

I think you are extremely wrong on that one.

Well he's a successful businessman who likes to play high stakes poker. So I'd say he has a lot of poker friends.

If it’s a game with his friends, he should direct his anger at the friend who let someone ghost him.

If they aren’t friends, he should be angry with himself for trusting others.

Not sure why anyone would blame the “poker hero”. That’s somebody in it to make money, plain and simple. In general, it’s ridiculous to blame the person doing the ghosting. They don’t even violate any ToS because it doesn’t have to do with their account. Blame the person who lets someone else ghost them. In the case here, that’s probably some random millionaire, so who cares?

I also don’t see how the $ amount is of any relevance here. Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates playing 100k/200k isn’t that different from you and I playing 1/2.

I thought this was a poker forum with highly logical people. Meh I guess it is NVG. My friend left the bank door open. All I did was walk in and take the cash. I don't think I have any responsibility in what happened.

Do we have so many scummy people in this forum that can relate that they will do whatever gymnastics are necessary to absolve the pros in all of this?

In. Disappointed if it's just ghosting, my morbid curiosity is out of the park.

There's another very rich businessman who plays in the wsop main every year and donates all of his winnings to charity. He had a deep run or 2. Pharmaceutical exec or ceo I think. Perkins ain't him that's for sure. Perkins has always struck me as a rich whale who wants to be in the spotlight, and in the gambling world, money talks. His money immediately made him high profile. But he definitely loves and craves the attention.

just wasted 15mins reading this thread

Yeah as of now this thread offers nothing and sucks. Welp back to the coronavirus thread lol.

exactly

actually not wrong at all.

he might have given all his money to charity anonymously (but given his thirst for attention, that seem doubtful) and be one of the leading philanthropists in the country for all I know.

all I said is I googled it and nada came up except him donating 1.5M to his high school to name a bldg after him (ego yo).

The second link when you google those terms gives you some details. I am pretty sure he has been on Joey's podcast discussing a number of things he does in this area.

I'd straight up bet money at like even odds that this is the jist of it

The question then is if the people involved are interesting names enough for [the community as a whole] to warrant caring at all, or if it's Perkins who's upset that some 25/50 reg got into his games by fixing a deal with some rec... With Koon being mentioned and Perkins saying "poker heroes" I guess it could be some big names though

Well, good luck trying to recoup your money in court if the bank was illegal/unregulated..

Strawman much? This is unrelated to whether these players should engage in or take any blame in the situation.

Yeah if it is just ghosting on the poker apps and there's no massive star names involved this is an early contender for biggest slowroll of 2020.

The biggest winner in poker history might be Tobey Maguire. He's got to be close to the top for sure.

I know there are alot of scummy people in poker. But I think if you are a high stakes professional, you need to follow a certain unwritten "code of ethics". You will face cheaters during your career but that is no excuse into turning into one.

If in this case some professional has been playing on a table where everyone else is way worse than him and pretended to be somebody else, he should definitely be outed to public. If a fish who has been bumhunted by leeches of poker world with all the seat scripts and tools available decides to sell his account to some crusher, I wouldn't feel that bad about it compared to a game that consists completely of recreational players. Both actions are wrong but everbody understands why one is more wrong than the other.

I dont think that's what he's saying at all. You can argue the moral aspect of multi-accounting as much as you wish, but ultimately however good or bad you think it is, it's not much of a scandal.

needs more love

What possible reason could there be to tease it out like this... Perkins is a clown.

Also if Koon is such a man of integrity, why didn't he out the situation himself?

Maybe that is how this whole thing came to light?

Jaime Staples just said Perkins clarified (I believe to a poker news reporter) that:

1) It's online

2) It's not Triton

3) Koon came forward with the information to Bill