agree with this 100%, i think we were just hung up on semantics

i genuinely hope he's ok and just wanted some time off and genuinely mean that I think I'd like the guy and would enjoy his company in a public setting

Is there anyone on this thread that plays at the casino in reno that he was last spotted? What games was he playing, had anyone interacted with him in the week prior to him going missing? Feel like this forum could be used for much more good then peoples personal opinions. When I played with Brad he talked a lot, surely someone may have picked up something that he said or atleast could evaluate his demeanor at the table or something. I think his roommate should offer us some information here. Who was the roommate? Where did he live? Whats he think happened ect ect.

You do realize there is an alleged homicide investigation. I doubt they want potential witnesses to start publicly giving away confidential info.

No they don't. It's simple as that.

If you don't want to play by the rules of our society aka the law (which is very clear on that one), please keep your opinion out of this thread. Thank you.

I would never hurt anyone who stole from me because I do not want to go to jail and it is illegal. Fwiw in your response you didnt even say it was morally wrong, you just said its against the rules of society.

I don't personally think that violence is the answer but I do not think it is morally wrong to hurt someone who has stolen significant amounts of money from you. I dont mean to seriously hurt them or to maim them but if someone steals lots and lots of money from you and you beat them up , I understand the morality behind that.

I am sorry if I offended you or if I seemed to be condoning violence.

PointlessWords indirectly brings up a good point. There are issues with our justice system, it's often not a great a solution for complex social issues. So when somebody goes as far as they can to betray you, it may feel normal to want an eye for an eye type thing. But what if the person becomes a ghost? Probably then just violence and absolute chaos.

What if instead of stealing, it was a concerted effort to cheat? What if the con extends beyond the poker table? At some point it goes past revenge to attempting to defend yourself.

At least you chose an appropriate screen name......

I dealt where he was playing until the casinos shutdown. He played the daily 3/5 game and the 5/10 when it ran. He was always a gentleman at the table, polite and sociable. Nothing off about his demeanor. He did look different, had long hair and maybe thinner. But he looked healthy.

This confirms my theory. I spend the last hours researching what happened to brad.

He was always in action for 20 years as he said. With a few days off. (Too few) so what does a man do when a pandemic hits the world and he cannot play?
Nothing! That's the point. He goes into a long think tank. And wtf he does now. And wtf he did the past 20 years. He feels like an eagle chained to the ground unable to fly. Like he doesn't belong to anything else.
No action. Nada niente.. so he might got sick of all the bs and took a vacation.

Maybe and hopefully he went on a long holiday and maybe if we welcome him instead of badmouthing him.he comes back and pay his dept. But more importantly sees other perspectives and learned from the time off. Gl brad you always seemed to be one of the nicest dudes at the tables.

This could be the dumbest thing I’ve ever read. I am sure he can play in dozens of private games as well as play online since he lives in Nevada.

What a lame theory that he went on a walkabout because there is no casino poker — which is also completely false.

Well he seemed to frequent the casinos didn't he?
He even lived at them (belaggio, Rio, ) for long periods of times. He regarded them as his "living room" as he himself talked about the casinos. So what does a man do when all casinos have to close all of the sudden??!
Who has always been in action at the casinos?

Apology accepted for dumbest post of the century. But I think he took only some time off.

With your line of thinking I would be more inclined to believe he left to find wherever live games are running to stay in action, as he had the previous 20 years, not take a random vacation- but obviously that seems improbable because someone would've spotted him at some random game by now / he would have no incentive to be ignoring family and friends presumably unless he was a very isolated person outside of the casino?

It actually makes perfect sense that the pandemic and change in routine could have shaken him up. You don't know about his private games and he might not like depositing lots of money online (wonder why). And comparing the new live scene with the casino environment he's comfortable in is laughable. Stop taking your life out on everyone else.

Brad Booth topic in Ben Deach's vlog, starting at 7:20

What makes sense is he was murdered, someone threatened his life and he's on the run, or he faked his own death. Considering homicide is investigating this case nothing else makes sense. He's not on vacation, he's not stir crazy, he's not looking for live action elsewhere. The police know something the general public doesn't know; they suspect foul play for some reason or another. Homicide does not investigate missings persons cases without foul play.

Faking your own death is next to impossible. At some point you have to re-emerge.

Maybe there was never a Brad Booth

The video and whole situation seems a bit dramatic for 25k, 50k? That's like half a year of working a job at some fast food joint.

My first would be to go look for a girl he's been talking or seeing. She would be the one to set him up, like a 1-2 night "camping trip."

grunching.............. has he been found dead?...... i don't understand some of the comments. maybe things got off-track.

i agree 100% with the poster about getting useful info on here rather than judge brad, speculate as to what might have happened, discuss gambling addiction. and yes, i am guilty of having discussed those things.

i didn't understand the comment about it potentially being a murder and people not wanting to come forward and the police not wanting to give away key evidence.

let's post info to help find brad......... unfortunately i have little to give right now. but i know some people who know brad well so i will see if i can get some info about his canadian habits

it is a big big deal to get across the border into canada these days unless you are doing so regularly as part of a job or commuting to ajob (nurse living in canada working in usa). even citizens have to quarantine for 2 weeks upon entering....so he's almost assuredly not in canada, but i'll ask around.....

The murder discussion has come up because someone close to him posted earlier that the case is being looked into by the homicide department now.

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Screenshot from above vlog from guy who was friendly with brad, text day before he went missing



Seems weird he is apologizing like that when Brad (story from vlog) invited the vlogger to a really good game and he happened to run bad / lose in it. Poker players know losing in one session means almost nothing and anyone would be very happy to have sum1 giving them a heads up when good games are going to run no matter how you've run in those good games in the past.
Could just be the way he is and super standard text but to me personally it almost gives a depressing / don't want to negatively impact people anymore vibe?

I agree.

I think feeling sorry or at least acknowledging the person you invited lost a lot of money is normal and cordial if the other party isnt really that close to you. (ironically if they were really close "bros" a funny joke about the situation may be normal there)

but how he says "I won't do that anymore, it feels bad when things don't work out" is a bit odd vibes and sounds like inner projection

Obviously the fact that homicide is investigating is ominous, but if he really did go camping by himself its absurd to rule out the possibility that he fell down a ravine or ran out of gas in some remote location. Thousands and thousands of people die and go missing and are never located again in national parks and remote wilderness areas every year.