I can say with 100% confidence that all you have to do to get banned from 2+2 is to have an unobjective moderator with an ego that doesn't agree with what you say. It's that simple. As long as you are entertaining them by insulting intelligent posters, then flame away.

It's the most ludicrous form hipocracy.

And just LOL to Samo thinking I'm easy money. Hell Claudia won $9100 in a 25NL game with 5 or 6 players straddling for 10 last night. When is the last time any of you won over 9 grand in a 25 game or finished top 100 in a main event. Shes been playing half the time I have & I taught her everthing she knows. Shes also won something like 12 out 14 sessions since we got back from vegas, Ive lost once since we got back & twice if you count a 45min session I played.

In before Gabe comes on saying its fantastic that there's FINALLY another voice of reason here: luckthefakers. also, lol @ the phrase "coalition of ******s".

Even if you interpret Samo's intentions as actually intending to fight at the beginning....its still not even close to as bad as All Talk backing out

1.) agreed to play for a lottttt of money 40k
2.) Samo was never mouthing off how he is the greatest fighter in the world and would fight anyone
3.) Never even got into serious specifics except for OHH you're going to be in boston this date?
4.) It's poker in a poker forum, and not the 5th grade
5.) Polov an all of his idiocy deserves no slack

side note: Polov is starting to resemble GAbe in this manner: He makes unbelievably dumb, logically flawed arguments, Some other poster comes on and completely disproves this bafoon through logical points, Polov never addresses the arguments again and instead changes/focuses the convo on something else.

caseycjc said:

"At least for me you've taken a really amusing thread and put a really sick spin to it that takes a lot of fun out of it; you're acting like a total cretin."

This bears repeating. Polov, I've said it before and I'll say it again, you're an a.shole. Your behaviour goes way beyond socially awkward.

Gabe, how do you not see that your latest post is nothing more than ALL TALK. Noone gives a flying f..k how Claudia did at some game or another. I really want to be more on your side in this thing and I believe it's possible that you are a hell of a poker player, certainly a LOT better than people here a giving you credit for. I agree that Samo thinking you are easy money is LOL. To be fair, I also think that you saying you are a 4-1 favorite over him is also LOL.

Instead of bragging about Claudia or more such anecdotal evidence/babble, please take 1 minute of your time to post that you ARE still willing to play, if not Samo then someone else and that you WILL NOT avoid the escrow issue as you clearly did with Samo. I (and I'm sure many others) would love to see this match happen, if you really think you are such a huge favorite then you should be happy to play as well.

If you did play and win such a match, you would no longer have to post here about your tournament results, cash game results for you and Claudia, daytreding stuff or anything else. Win this match and I'll bet that most of the people here who are giving you no credit whatsoever will become instant fans.

One time Gabe, one time!

Samoleus, clearly you didn't instigate anything re. physical violence but if you can't understand how anyone could think that you were willing to fight then ... well then I just don't know what to say. If your comment re. teeth was blatant sarcasm and not seeing that makes me dense, well then dense I am I guess.

It looks like ASA AKIRA & I have hit a wall on negotiations. I agreed to play him on the same terms as the previous match, but it seems he want's money escrowed as well. I don't know what to say other than I've never escrowed any money to play poker & didn't like the idea in the first match attempt. If someone that's made millions in poker, had TV appearances, & was generally well known in the poker community said they were going to play, I would take their word for it until proven wrong. If someone(anyone) wants to play me, then they can come down here & bring there money.

[x] confirmed Gabe has built-in excuse to never play anyone HU for $40K

Escrow is fairly common in matches where the participants don't know each other. I'm not sure why you won't bend on this one issue, especially since John Dolan has already agreed to act as the escrow and has had subiime (Joseph Cheong) vouch for Dolan. Your money will be safe, and your challenger will have the assurance that you won't back out once he springs for the ticket for the flight.

And this isn't a dig against you at all (really), but right now saying that you are well known and have made millions means absolutely nothing in the wake of the Girah scandal, where well-known, rich HS regs vouched for someone only to have that person run multiple scams.

I have zero intention of going back and modding the entire thread, but play nice, everyone.

That's what Chino said..

SGT, With all due respect, girah was a 17 or 18 year old kid. That whole situation speaks more for the weird NVG crowd than anything else. Im a 34 year old grown ass man & I've been playing poker for over 10 years everyday & know them by their FACES, not online screen names. As far as the other 2 guys moving to Portugal to live with this kid they met online. That just sounds Bizarre. And I'm the one their calling weird. Wow

As far as your mod status. I wish people here really understand how unobjective you really are. Some of the post you've made here insulting me etc. leaves you in no position to deserve that. However maybe it takes one to mod one. HA

LOL. I've heard BS along these lines before and it almost always ends up with the person bragging about how rich and trustworthy they are stiffing someone.

This is just further confirmation that you are fully deserving of the moniker Gabe ALL TALK Costner.

I was referring more to the people who vouched for Girah, who basically used their status as successful HS poker players to give the guy credibility, but since they were all young, too, I assume you would dismiss this as well.

My point being that right now, saying "I'm well known and successful and you've seen me on TV" doesn't sound particularly reassuring.

You are entitled to your opinion. I'll only respond that if everyone who ever insulted another poster, no matter how slightly, were excluded from being a mod, then there would be no mods. Including you, since you insulted my intelligence before I had ever said a word against you in this thread.

SGT, It was more about what you were implying , going along witwat these internet phantoms behind their computers were saying. You made some very sarcastic comments about what I said. Again I don't expect everyone to believe some of the things I've said. But there all true. If a branch fell off a tree in the middle of the woods somewhere, just because YOU didn't see it or hear it, doesnt mean that it didnt happen. The truth is the truth no matter how far fetched it sounds. The greatest cons will always be something that no one saw coming. If you think online poker is completely random & legit, then I"m just sorry. You just don't understand what makes the world go rounds.

Gabe, did you actually call yourself an intelligent poster in one of those other comments? You may be good at poker, but your posts are terrible. they make no sense. Give me ONE post of yours that has something intelligent?

Gabe, you never brought up your issue with escrowing money in the match against Samo (you just didn't respond to his PMs, but never specifically said you were against them).....I think you just came up with this excuse to dodge more good players that you are an underdog against. You have solidified your nickname....Gable "All Talk" Costner. Forever all talk.

Gabe, to put it extremely charitably, you come across as a bit...flaky. Given that and your stalling tactics in setting up the whole match, having money escrowed is 100% reasonable. This is done for the security of everyone involved and since you have someone you know and suggested who has been vouched for by subiime it is completely ridiculous that you wouldn't agree to this.

lol I know right, you're supposedly close friends with John Dolan, why not use him? what harm is there in that? It's almost no work on your part.

And you are paranoid about getting cheated by infrared lasers, yet you're willing to play someone you don't know without an escrow---*hypothetical*, what if you play and beat Asa Akira, and he doesn't pay? You can avoid that worry by escrowing.....

If your name is ucantcme, baudid, daliman, welkerallday, mr. beer or Lt22. Not sure why your still posting. You could throw you all in a bag, shake you up & pick one out & get the same as your all a potpourri of ******ed, illogical, biased, unintelligent thought. I would never respond to any of you as I'm arguing against a wall with no hears as you only hear what fits your bias.


Good day

Wasn't having Dolan handle the money your idea?

And as far as some of the others here, You may only be slightly less ******ed & biased as the above 6 posters , thus avoiding being mentioned.

EDDtown, you are a delusional coward. Escrowing the money protects you equally as well as it protects Samo. It's blatantly obvious you're looking for pretexts to avoid the match.

Polov, you are a gigantic toolbox. It's hard to get more socially inept than grown men challenging each other on the Internet to physical fight... over absolutely nothing.

That said, you've both provided some excellent entertainment. For that, I thank you.

EDDtown, I will give you credit for one thing....you are smart enough not to engage any of us in an actual argument, because you know that we would all destroy you. You are SO delusional if you think that we are the ones being illogical, yet your blanket, unproven, contradicting statements are somehow logical. It's just absolutely laughable you are calling US illogical....Everything I said has been backed up by logical points, and I think you realize this and are thus not willing to engage in an argument because you KNOW you will get destroyed. There's a reason everyone is on the other side of you here....cmon if you were actually right about ANYTHING, you would have more than literally 2 people backing you up.....one of which being POLOV who is challenging people to fights and calling everyone a socially awkward nerd.

Good day

that's all that really needs to be said about the escrow

Originally Posted by EDDtown View Post
"Samo is full of Shiit, I just sent him a PM yesterday about the venue situation & about possibly having John Dolan handle the money for us. "

Add this to the long list of Gabe contradictions. How do you explain this? Here you are PERFECTLY willing to escrow here with Dolan, and it is YOUR idea. But now against Asa Akira, you don't want to escrow. How can this contradiction be LOGICALLY explained Gabe? Since you're so LOGICAL? Let's hear it.....

it was a figure of speech bro

Well if you show up at his house and break his windows that is definitely criminal.

lolll ohhh right I forgot that's his go to