This. They would be interested in a man sleeping with sheep.

Ok,....You got me. I am gonna create a new account right after I get back from the airport.

I'm rooting for Mike to be the next rags to riches story. All he's gatta do is scam $20 and double up about 20 times, that's how you become a poker legend right?

The new kids in poker will be like...

I read this forum regularly for 3 years b4 I joined

I'm still waiting for him to PM me. Until then he's full of ****.

If he just joined the site, he will be unable to PM you for a while. New members do not have PM privileges. This is what happened to me in November when I signed up to PM someone who had posted personal info about one of my friends. Since I couldn't PM the target, I forgot all about this site until Deadspin directed me here. I actually tried to sign up again to post about Mike, because I didn't realize this was the same site I joined in November.

Mike is super obsessive compulsive. Its very possible he had 10 plus accounts on here. The dude probably spent 15 nights in jail in nevada alone and he never even mentioned that.

He was arrested, i think, a few days before this thread started.

Mike just went to a new hotel and created a new account, lol.

No one who is honest will defend a guy scamming at airports for 10 years lol.

agree with you though if getting arrested 30 times does not stop him from scamming a thread on here certainly was not going to stop him.

SouthEastProf, great first post. You made this thread interesting again.

I'm teaching my band how to play this. My favorite song.

Problem is all of these so called lawyers and prosecutors in this thread apparently don't know how things work in the real world.
Jman220, even with all his expertise and experience, didn't even know that defrauding an innkeeper is a crime. He also didn't believe Mike would catch a burglary charge related to the check fraud. (I'll give you a hint. It was probably a plea bargain to a lesser charge. Something that happens numerous times every day, in just about every court). Yet he somehow insists that some prosecutor is going to search the internet for victims of this guys petty scams. It should be clear enough that with Mike's 20+ misdemeanor trespasses, that no prosecutor gives 2 ****s about tracking this guy down and trying to get a judge to throw the book at him regarding these relatively minor crimes.

Mike will go away for a long time when he pulls off something major. He'll never do more than 6 months-1 year unless he gets caught doing a single fraud worth thousands, a violent felony, a major casino cheating scam, etc. Nobody is locking him up and throwing away the key for trespassing, or his $200 airport sob stories, regardless of what the law school students or proteges in this thread would like you to believe.

And for the record, I hate Mike for all the bull**** he's put his victims through, for what he's put innocent dealers through, for his scummy attitude, etc. But let's get back to reality. His airport crimes are nothing in the grand scheme of things.

Awesome post!

However:

This community isn't really used to seeing well-written comments by intelligent people with expertise in academic fields. To be honest, it's a bit threatening; half of us still live in our parents' basements. It's hard to figure out how to respond, so we're just going to troll you unmercifully, and say stupid crap until you leave.

Take it away, YappingYoda. You'll have backup support when the rest of your buddies roll out of bed around noon.

Haha. Professors watching a Hollywood movie to study people like him. Well, at least he can sell 9 copies of his book, no-one else would buy it. Let alone a movie about someone just scamming people for a couple of hundreds. It's not like the Great Trainrobbery or digging a tunnel and break in a bank.

I feel sorry for your students if you really are a 'professor'

It's a quote from the greatest legal movie ever made.

Please point to the post where I compared what he is doing to child molestation?

It's actually entirely believable that 9 out of 10 professors of psychology (or a related field) would want to read more about this story. As e1cnr said, the poll was done in an entirely biased population group. Those are the exact people who have spent their lives studying/teaching/writing about mental illness, non-regular behaviors, addictions, etc.

I'm not saying SouthEastProf is who he claims he is. I haven't the slightest clue either way. But it's actually quite belieable that a few university professors of psychology want to hear more about a person with a documented full blown gambling addiction (and who is willnig to be quite honest, to the point of almost 'arrogance', about his beahavior).

Doesn't mean a book or a movie would ever get greenlighted. Pretty sure university professors are a tiny, tiny, tiny subset of the book market.

So that's that decided then. Mike shouldn't go to prison, he should donate himself to medical science.

You'd think poker players of all people would learn to not be so results oriented.

Maybe it's a degree in chemical engineering.

C'mon man. The dude goes out of his way to pump up the book/movie deal:

Mike was obsessed with the idea of his book deal and movie deal; so this this "professor". Based on his writing, I'd be shocked if this guy has tenure anywhere, it sounds more like a guy who got a college degree decades ago, and has done nothing with it in the last 2 decades or so.

The writing is horrible; the purpose meandering. Yeah "great post". Nice cover story. Good try, Mike.

I haven't the slightest clue whether or not the guy's a professor. I don't care. And frankly, it doesn't matter. Let's say the guy is a college professor; his post here on 2p2 saying that the book would captivate him and his colleagues is going to have absolutely no bearing on whether or not Mike's life story will turn into a book or movie. The post changes the chances of a book/movie from 0.000001% to 0.000002%. And I think I'm being generous. So if it's a college professor or if it's Mike trying to keep the idea of a book in everyone's minds, either way it means nothing. All I was doing was saying that it doesn't surprise me that a few professors of psychology would find a detailed and "honest" (by that I just mean honest about the level of degeneracy involved) story of a full blown gambling addict's many years of degernate behavior tied directly to his addiction. It also wouldn't surprise me that the post is entirely made up by Mike to try to boost his chances of a book deal because he probably needs more money to go play Pai Gow and the airport scam can't always be reliable.

Hey, maybe we'd learn that this part or that part of his brain doesn't do this that or has too much this or that. Would help society continue to try to "solve" the full mystery of addiction. And it'd certainly be SOMETHING good to come out of this, because I'm pretty damn confident that there's absolutely nothing else positive that will ever come out of this saga.

Offer definitive proof that you are not Mike. you cannot.

Mike has like 20 fake accounts I'm sure. If he was asking for backers over the years on here he probably had a few fake ones to vouch for him.

Does Yapping Yoda have any life whatsoever outside of harassing PSUmike?

He's got a lot of time on his hands at the moment. It's school holidays.

Hi Yoda....first I'd like to think I'm a reasonable guy although I probably have different views than most like in this thread. Second and for the 100th time I'm not sticking up for mike....I just don't think what he is doing is that big of a deal and definitively far from a serious crime that needs to be investigated like some of you claim. If he was out there actually stealing and robbing people than yes he should be in prison but he isn't.

All the people give him money willingly and it's probably money that they can afford to lose or they wouldn't have given it to him in the first place. These same people are foolish enough to believe his story. Look at his picture at the airport that was posted....you have to be a ****ing moron to believe his story that he was a stranded businessman. You also have to be an even bigger moron to think that he has no way of contacting friends, family, work associates, etc that can help him. I'm sorry but sometimes people have to protect themselves and not believe some random idiot at the airport. If he would have came up and asked me he seriously would have gotten out 3 words before I told him no. It's not like he looked like some clean cut well dressed person. He looks like a bum.

Jman keep saying that he would prosecute this blah blah blah but the fact is that Mike has been doing this for 14+ years and has never been prosecuted. Why? Because it's not worth anyone's time. Jman can say whatever he wants but he's acting on his on personal wishes. Just because he says one thing doesn't mean it he would actually be able to prosecute him. The amount of time and effort it would take to slap mike with a few petty charges isn't worth the time of any DA's office.

Jman...if this is a crime why has it gone on for 14 years with out any thing happening?

Take a guy that stands on the corner and holds a sign that says "homeless - need food" do you guys think he should be charged criminally if he isn't actually homeless and hungry?