Can't believe the nerve of this Adam guy harassing him on twitter with all these self-serving questions.

Shaun Deeb, Ike Haxton, Jason Mercier, Joe Ingram, Vanessa Selbst those are just some of the high profile names in the poker world that have been roped into Brians whole mess that he created..would be interesting to see the transaction history on the NH's account Brian might have felt untouchable and had moved a lot of money through the account he did have Phil Ivey at 1 point asking him in chat for a transfer he did say no though lol

Deeb have you not recommended to Brian to stay off twitter already? he is making himself look worse every day if thats possible..he needs to delete all social media and stop posting on facebook for awhile..people are right he has no self awareness at all

This guy is an utter scumbag and lunatic.

EPT Barcelona live stream starts 26 August. It will be interesting to see if those of the above who are PS sponsored are still asked to to go on the live stream. At the moment this story is restricted to 2p2 but the twitter feed is going to go crazy with questions for them if they do go on.

Your choice of phrase brings this to mind. Seems awfully apt.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ub2l1N_IJig

Brian Hastings seems like a man who has learned how to think and argue watching TED talks and reading the ribbonfarm blog.

Those Twitter posts are cringeworthy.

Good question, cts was the one who spoke up against hastings and that post is now deleted.

What happened?

i was really impressed when cts posted & also impressed when he admitted that in hindsight making training videos was a bad idea & the pricing shenanigans on "let there be range" was not what he signed up for. (see joe ingram interview for that) post was a typical level headed cts post & now it is gone?

CTS requested the deletion.

Thanks for looking into it. I thought 2+2 frowned upon having posts deleted? Can we know request deletions and have them fulfilled? There was nothing in that post that was out of line in any way or merited being deleted. Why was this post allowed to be deleted? How are we supposed to have a legitimate discussion when posters can request their posts be deleted?

So we can request that posts be deleted now or was he just given an exception because of who he is?

The fact that he refereed to online poker as the "Wild West" and implied that its OK to break the TOS because others do it leads me to believe he is a sociopath.

Its amazing to me that someone can be such a brilliant poker player but so disconnected with reality that he honestly doesn't even realize he did something wrong.

Also pretty funny he is portraying himself as some sort of victim in a media witch hunt.

He's coming out super dbagish on twitter. Like clear the air on what happened and why you did it and move on. You'll never play on FT/Stars if either site returned to the US anyway.

Judgement call of the moderator. If the post does not have any quoted replies we frequently comply with reasonable and infrequent requests from a poster that has second thoughts about a post.

the amount i go through twitter looking for @brianchastings mentions despite being blocked probably means i am also a sociopath, but here we are...

Danielle Andersen ‏@dmoongirl 8 hours ago
@brianchastings @PokercastAdam Brian, i like you and generally think you're a nice guy, but your approach to this is lol bad.

Brian Hastings ‏@brianchastings 4 hours ago
@dmoongirl @PokercastAdam that's fair. expected more reasonable questions I guess. nothing in poker world surprises me anymore though.

Lance Bradley ‏@Lance_Bradley 4 hours ago
@brianchastings @dmoongirl @PokercastAdam More reasonable Brian? Okay, I’ll bite - what is an example of what you consider a reasonable Q?

Brian Hastings ‏@brianchastings 4 hours ago
@Lance_Bradley @dmoongirl @PokercastAdam a question that, given the publicly available info, a non-sucker could consider answering.

Lance Bradley ‏@Lance_Bradley 4h4 hours ago
@brianchastings @dmoongirl @PokercastAdam That’s not an example Brian. Is there one that you think is worth asking, that you would answer?

Brian Hastings ‏@brianchastings 4 hours ago
@Lance_Bradley @dmoongirl @PokercastAdam probably not. poker media's agenda (generate buzz/clicks) conflicts with my best interest.

Lance Bradley ‏@Lance_Bradley 4 hours ago
@brianchastings @dmoongirl @PokercastAdam What is your “best interest” at this point?

Brian Hastings ‏@brianchastings 4 hours ago
@Lance_Bradley @dmoongirl @PokercastAdam focus on happiness, self-improvement, and making good decisions going forward. yours?

Lance Bradley ‏@Lance_Bradley 4 hours ago
@brianchastings @dmoongirl @PokercastAdam So you were expecting questions about those three things and nothing to do with the issue at hand?

Brian Hastings ‏@brianchastings 3 hours ago
@Lance_Bradley @dmoongirl @PokercastAdam I thought I could possibly be open with you guys. Learning fast why @philivey is so private.

Lance Bradley ‏@Lance_Bradley 3 hours ago
@brianchastings @dmoongirl @PokercastAdam How have “we” wronged you at all? Adam asked five thoughtful, important questions. You balked.

Brian Hastings ‏@brianchastings 3 hours ago
@Lance_Bradley @dmoongirl @PokercastAdam I owe you those answers as much as you owe me a recap of your family vacation

Brian Hastings ‏@brianchastings 4 hours ago
@Lance_Bradley @dmoongirl @PokercastAdam pretty lol that ppl are caring about me when major industry players do shady things every day

Matthew Parvis ‏@MatthewParvis 3 hours ago
@brianchastings @Lance_Bradley @PokercastAdam here's my question: how many times can you try to deflect the issue away from yourself??

Brian Hastings ‏@brianchastings 3 hours ago
@MatthewParvis @Lance_Bradley @PokercastAdam the issue is much, much bigger than myself. it starts at the top. everyone so naive

Skyler Johnson ‏@IowaSkyler 4 hours ago
@brianchastings @Lance_Bradley @dmoongirl @PokercastAdam if u tell all, shady things will become public, and industry can change for better

Brian Hastings @brianchastings
@IowaSkyler @Lance_Bradley @dmoongirl @PokercastAdam industry is drawing dead without serious regulation. the ppl who need to know, know

The people who need to know, know, you filthy plebs!

why isnt vinci going after chicagojoey for VPN'ing on stars while in the US?

Disappointing that one of the most impt post in the entire thread was deleted based upon a mod's judgement.

More disappointing that cole south would have any second thoughts about a post stating that ma'ing/cheating is not acceptable. I think anyone who read that assumed CTS was clean, had nothing to hide & could give his opinion open and honestly.

i am sure everyone that read that post & now knows that CTS asked for it to be deleted is shaking their head as well.

Is there anyone to still see the post in question?

CTS, why did you have the post deleted? What are you worried about?

It was deleted by request of the poster. The judgement to comply is pretty standard if the post has not been quoted in a reply. As to the rest of your post, you are on the correct path in questioning cts' decision to request deletion. That is where the focus should be, although that will probably just be another derail from the main point of the thread being BH.

I can't believe until recently that I ever thought this guy wasn't an absolute clown. How did he manage not to look so bad during the other high profile cheating incident he was involved with?

When has he ever been caught or admitted to doing that?

I do agree with your sentiment though. why is it only Brian being attacked about this? Is it only because he used a different account? I asked the question earlier and got 0 replies. Why aren't the guys posting all over 2+2 making it ridiculously obvious they are playing from the US getting burned on the cross?

Because BH was doing it on a bought account and not his own?

Guys like vinci are probably paid to take heat away from the bot scandals.
Bought accounts are extremely common on pokerstars midstakes.

i am not looking to derail, but i agree with you
bh has already admitted to ma'ing in the pm posted on page 1.
i think cole south posts was especially relevant because he is the highest profile online player to speak up against what hastings did itt & then decided to delete the post.

ike haxton, another high profile player who was been mentioned as being aware of the ma'ing is a moderator on this forum. Why has he not been asked to reply to the accusations? How is this guy still a mod here?

Ike has been asked many times itt. We aren't going to waterboard him into making a reply. That is his call.