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Originally Posted by Stinger88
I don't want to involve Viktor in this as I think he is a good kid at heart who lost his way and got in bad spots.
The way you have behaved in my limited experience with me is unethical and quite possibly illegal. You've never given me anything resembling a fair shot to explain myself. You're using a few things I said when my sky was falling and I was manic as proof of character. You also had no problem playing me HU at 400/800 badugi when you thought you had an edge. The fact that someone who's had the level of success you have can possibly claim that you thought I was some Irish whale is 100% laughable and untrue. You also mangled the SN in your OP, which is slander/libel in the USA. But I digress...
In the interest of privacy, I won't post any settlements I made here without my permission. But they happened. I wasn't making that up. In your case, I realized that your intentions were malicious and to chase your staking losses by taking advantage of me when I was ripe for the picking. It's telling that you handled the negotiations even though you weren't the one playing (well you did play me in badugi, but you were happy to have that action). You asked for 50k (!!!), a number that could arguably been on the high side of fair, but I felt guilty and wanted to "make things right". Then, once I heard of your history of behavior in other situations and your incentives for acting on Viktor's behalf, I realized I was making a mistake.
Good luck clearing makeup with Viktor and turning your life around. Therapy and a change in industry has been a real awakening for me. Dan Smith's charity drive (www.dansmithholla.com) is a great way to start your rehab; I made a donation to Liberation Prison Yoga the other day myself.
first of all, the only positive thing i can say about you is that you leave viktor out of this as much as possible....
so to clear things up:
- when hastings used these irish accounts, he played isildur quite a lot of hands at different games, all at nosebleeds. i did not have a piece of viktor in any of these games i believe. but as hastings made posts at the time he will compensate people in a fair way and i had a figure with viktor from prior stakings, i discussed things with viktor and told him he should contact hastings.
he said yea, he should but he doesnt really wanna deal with that (typical for him), so i offered to get it done. we agreed i would get some part of money as payment for the figure. i cannot remember the % we agreed on, but it was not very significant.
i setup a 3way skype chat with him and hastings and got things started. hastings expressed his will to compensate viktor in a fair way.
we briefly talked about asking 3 judges for what the amount should be (as i was clearly biased). then hastings said we could probably resolve it just between us to make it as smooth and easy as possible.
so hastings and me started talking about it and i passed on the offer viktor had in mind (it might be 50k, i cant remember exactly). after some reasonable conversation, at some point hastings suddenly said he doesnt want to pay. he brought up that few friends of him had advised him not to compensate viktor, as viktor had MA them in the past most likely and didnt compensate them either.
we kept talking about it for some longer, i also started to talking to one of his friends about it. basically what they said was that they were very sure viktor had MAed against them and they had proof, but it was confidential and they wouldnt want to show me. i offered they would give the proof to a judge who will then decide what happens, that was declined as well
at some point i remember asking if its actually a proof or just some indicator and they admitted it was not a proof, but an indicator making viktors MA very very likely.
so anyways, at that point hastings refused to pay any compensation. my strong impression was that he just was looking for any excuse not to pay a compensation. conversation heated up and as it was very late night for me and i felt he was just wasting my time, we stopped talking and i deleted him from my skype. im completely fine with posting any of our conversation here to prove me wrong.
during those conversations, his friend accused me of MA through viktor at 2-7 tables, using teamviewer.
reality check: i did stake isildur in some 2-7 games in early 2014 (january-april) and i could watch him sometimes on teamviewer so i could get started myself with learning the game. i was neither playing nor commenting, as at that point i had no clue at all of the game. i found that wild accusation interesting though.
for your post, i dont know where to start commenting lol.
- what exactly of my behaviour was unethical? (not sure if you actually know what illegal means?)
- its interesting that youre saying my behaviour was malicious/unethical/illegal, given at the time back then you pretended your only reason not to pay was viktor MA against your friends. i remember both you and your friend saying multiple times you have no bad feelings towards me
- are you trying to say i agreed to you MA by playing you on your MA at badugi?^^ haha. btw, i think we either played one or two very brief sessions at badugi and all i could tell was that my opponent was a pretty bad but not terrible player. if i had known it was a successfull HS player from other games, i would have still played hands differently. but yes, since im playing anyone in that game, i didn't care much to get MAed. i was happy to get any action. that doesnt justify you MA against me in any way btw.
- talking about slander, you keep making vague statements about my malicious history and you know stuff that would destroy my reputation without giving any kind of proof. i ask you once again to post anything you want, i dont mind. just stop making false statements.
- i have no more figure with viktor for well over a year, thanks for the goodluck though
- as far as i can judge, you should sue your therapist. if i ever need one (nothing wrong at all about that. its a little bit saddening you lack enough self-respect to even suggest i need a therapy lol. i would have thought those jokes stopped to be funny at some point.
- can anyone else help me understanding how donations to the charity have any relevance for this matter or to your own post?