I linked the post to several of the Marketplace mods, so they should be able to investigate and take whatever action they deem necessary.

Investigated and NOT confirmed. Posts referencing this 2p2er in relation to this thread have been deleted.

It is very unfortunate I have the same name as this guy..

Hey guys I haven't really read this thread so don't know all the details, but I just wanted to stop in and say I backed the OP very recently (about a month ago). I literally didn't have a single problem with him. He made $ on his stake and paid us out very promptly. Just wanted to stop in as a character reference for him based solely on my dealings w/ him.

imawhale26, you were one of the people I tried to help out.

You staked him, even after I gave him a bad reference and pointed out the problems he has been having? Did you look into any other backers or just the one reference he gave?

Why do I bother at all? I am baffled. Warn people, they go forward with it anyways.
How could you possibly go ahead with this stake after reading the posts from this link.

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/13.../#post29090754

I hope for your sake that I am wrong about the OP. You just vouched for someone over a months worth of business after others have said the opposite. I doubt they will see your references without seeing the others, so if business has been good for you, then he deserves that. I hope other investors are more savvy.

Anyone who willingly let's someone look at their cards in real time when they play deserves to lose all their money.

Just incase anyone thinking of staking a degen reads this post. Stars has a function which allows you to restrict table limit. i,e play only up to 200nl or whatever it might be. If you want to change it, i.e increase your table limits it takes a full 24 hours to go through will hopefully be long enough for degens to decide against it.

Too strange - I'm lookingat three different posters today and two of them have the same name.
Without looking too deeply, I can find no other connection between them.


Is DrRunsick verified as Ben Costello or is just a name he uses?

Joshua le marchant is also a scammer

Sorry you got scammed OP

Dude, when I saw this thread I thought of you right away. I then scrolled through my contacts and saw the name was exactly the same, and was like HOLY ****!!!

Glad it is not you bro. I know you are a bit of a degen but found it kinda hard to believe you would have done this.

What a ****ty coincidence.

I can vouch for OP - he gave me lessons without having me pay upfront. He is a very generous person and its a shame that Ben would rip him off like this. He gave me two hours free coaching, and guaranteed that I only had to pay for the lessons if I was satisfied with his coaching method. I shipped him the money the next day, and felt pretty good about it.

he would also undoubtedly be aware of this thread by now, so the fact he hasn't leapt to his own defence justifying or explaining everything is pretty damning evidence too imo.

So this is similar to dogishead scam correct?

Ive seen him shove over the top of a raise and a reraise with KQ on a K 9 6 board. He gives away his money so easily, then you see him go to his mates and come back with another buy in and lose that and then ignore his mates "what happened?" and just walk out leaving his mate hanging with a WTF look on his/their face

My previous backer saw this thread and called me out. Who can blame him.. Ben Costello isn't exactly a common name

I understand the culture among gamblers for staking and loan agreements but why the hell would you ever loan/stake someone an amount of money that would but your own subsistence at risk?

pretty sure a mate of mine bought some of his action once.
pretty funny doing that with KQ @ treasury. place is full of old nits.
@ crown 2/5 KQ would be the immortal nuts in that spot

So true about the nits. I have fallen asleep at times (being nitty myself) games are such a snoozefest. Sat nights are great value though

Pelican you Are an Enigma, who are you at treasury?? Ben is a good guy, the money I gave him at treasury disappeared when his overpair got dusted by pair+gutshot no big deal. But seriously, who stakes some guy 850 euros to play PLO50 and thinks its a smart investment....?

And as if treasury nitty, it's just passive and stationy as, also give us more info on the K96 hand...

Its good for the OP and others to out people, since after this rolled stake he will be after others. Does the amount really matter? If he is going to scumbag it up for 850 Euros he would have done for more if he had the chance. This will reduce the likelihood of him getting that chance.

Stop derailing with random ****.

Why isn't Benjamin's full name in the OP and thread title?

He was part of a PLO group on facebook where he said that his SN was DrRunsick. While this doesn't prove that DrRunsick is Benjamin, it does prove that Benjamin is DrRunsick.

It's also good the OP outed himself as a colluding teamviweing ghosting scumbag peice of s&$t that outed himself as well. Go broke OP!

Perhaps I was not clear when I said "stop derailing with random ****".

STOP DERAILING THIS THREAD WITH RANDOM **** LIKE "WHO ARE YOU?" AND DISCUSSIONS ABOUT SOME GAME AT SOME CASINO.

I hope that was clearer.

I am anxiously awaiting OPs return.
Last Activity: 12-05-2011 09:53 PM

I don't get posting a thread like this and then never checking it...