BTOC = honestperson = brtinla = BrandiRose?

gTg

Edit: JennFox:

i haven't been directly affected by brandi. jenn put her heart into trying to help brandi, and she's been hurt by some things that have been said and done, ****ed up things that i've personally witnessed. she's upset and so i'm upset about it. but as far as my refrigerator being taken, things of that nature, i've pretty much tried to stay out of the way as much as possible and truth be told haven't exactly condoned the friendship. so my appliances are safe.

brandi as a friend put it is "aggressively nuts" and it's probably a good bet that any bad thing you've ever heard about her is true.

aj

I think honestperson is either Brandon or someone close to him. Not Brandi.

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/sh...27#post2229727

lol brandi seriously just ****ing get a job as as stripper/hooker full time already you're not good enough for poker or anything that you have to apply yourself at, you're hot, use your talents. seriously, being a hooker is more honorable than ripping off people to make money, AT LEAST YOU'RE HONEST ABOUT WHAT YOU'RE DOING.

these guys are victims? last i heard the sailors said brandi was a fine girl, such a good wife she would be. its just that their life their love and their lady is the sea imo

I know nothing about UFC (my friends love it) or any of that stuff but i met Randy Coture (sp?) and one other guy down in Portland once and they were really super nice guys. I assume being able to kick pretty much anyones ass would pretty much negate any male insecurities. Which is why BTOC sounds to me like: Napoleon Syndrome FTW

All, just an FYI, Sklanskys appliances are safe too- he took out the theft protection insurance from Rent-A-Center. In case you were worried.

I gave that thieving tramp a braided chain of the finest silver from the north of spain and i never saw her again.

Brandi kinda reminds me of my friend Tanya. Tanya's mother was a whore and a heroin dealer. Her sisters were whores, her brothers were bank robbers. When she reached an age when she had to make a living for herself, well, you can guess what industry Tanya was going to go into.

Except she hated it. She hated the customers. Couldn't bear the idea that they thought that their money gave them the right to paw her with their fat, middle aged fingers. A beautiful Nubian queen like Tanya. She might have nothing, but she still had her pride.

So she went into the industry, and now and again, she'd actually turn a trick. If she couldn't see any other way of getting that money. But that wasn't what she was known for. If you asked Tanya what she did for a living, she'd tell you -- she was a clipper. She'd lure customers to a quiet spot, and then she'd beat them and rob them of their money.

Of course, deep down Tanya didn't much like earning a living this way either. So she had to use ever-increasing amounts of heroin and crack cocaine to be able live with herself. And she became famous for it. Whenever the occasional customer went to the cops and reported having been beaten and robbed by a six foot black hooker (she'd have had Sklansky's dough in a flash, obviously), they immediately knew where to go looking.

And so large portions of her adult life were spent in prison. And while there, eventually, she came to a kind of acceptance. She realized she'd lost everything as a consequence of the life that she'd led, including several children, who had been taken into the care of the state. She grieved their loss dreadfully.

After her last prison stint (in which she did four years of an eight year sentence), Tanya went to a specialist 12 step rehab for black women. She'd done rehab before, but it hadn't actually had any impact. This time though, she met women that she could identify with, who had life experiences that she could relate to.

Tanya has been in recovery for nearly ten years now. She works at the BBC, and has been the lead actress in a short series after being discovered by a producer while she was working in the canteen. She's happily married, and has a three year old daughter who lives with her and her new husband.

Most of the professionals who worked with Tanya said that she'd never, ever change, and they all wrote her off, but one woman in particular never gave up on her, and kept on making opportunities for her to have another shot at rehab. Eventually, she just reached a point where her old set of coping strategies had stopped working completely, and she needed to find a new set that really did work for her.

I don't know how hard Brandi's upbringing was, but I'm pretty sure it wasn't as hard as Tanya's.

Why are you so dumb...

I don't buy that honestperson is Brandi because Honestperson said some things that Brandi would not likely have shared.

markksman:
hmmm, I thought that Brandon said somewhere that she was pissed that she didn't get
"credit" for sleeping with some pro last summer.

I think honestperson mentioned Bobby, Gus, Jamie and Carlos?

What would Brandi not likely have shared?

gTg

For me it was the bench press thing. No fighter is going to go around bragging about his bench press.

lol nh...

Poker players need street smarts. You have to know when to walk away and know when to run..Don Schlitz. Burn me once, shame on you. Burn me twice, shame on me.

The most important thing a poker player has is his good word. When you find out someone is a liar, quit believing them! Don't wait for a series of lies. Brand them a liar and watch out! Jenn and the Whining Pimp, from their own accounts, carried Brandi way too far. Are they just super gullible and out of touch with the notion that there are hustling people around gambling that can't be trusted???

At the Shop, the legendary gambling joint in West Texas, I went in with money in my pocket. I knew that the folks there would try to get that money. I would try to get theirs. I protected myself from angles, cons, prop bets. There was almost zero cheating, the crowd being so tough. When someone started some watermelon conversation "story" about a sure thing on a horse or a basketball game or a hot diamond ring, one had layers, filters, preparation, and perceptual tests.

The three big markers of a sociopath are: 1, skilled, frequent lying. 2, no remorse for what their actions do to others. 3. shifting the blame to others when things go bad.

If you catch somebody lying for practice or lying for unknown reasons, red flags should go up. Get rid of them. Stay your distance. Be warned. There are too many good people around poker to waste your time on the hard cases.

Sklansky remembering a year old post is rather impressive. I might write an article about Oswald Jacoby, the smartest card player of all time.

glimmtwin's drama about the bathrobe came straight from some American movie, is it Midnight Cowboy??? The old guy had the bathrobe, the same dialog.

Johnny Hughes

BrandiRose sent me a PM. Her side of the story differs radically from that of the pimp. She didn't mention Jenn.

Johnny Hughes

Breaking development

"Whenever the occasional customer went to the cops and reported having been beaten and robbed by a six foot black hooker (she'd have had Sklansky's dough in a flash, obviously), they immediately knew where to go looking."

I haven't even been friends with a hooker, black or otherwise for 35 years. I met a young black girl (the one who models two plus two tee shirts on this site,) eight years ago along with her friend. She is married to a US Marine and has a kid. Her friend is a surgical nurse. They would sometimes come into the Bellagio to say hello and get a buffet comp and they would also often bring a cute friend along. And I would insist she watch me play for a few minutes. It was just silly fooling around and the regular poker players knew it.

The only reason I even care about setting the record straight is for their sake not mine. I actually have some reasons, which I have discussed elsewhere, for portraying myself in a negative light. Don't want to hijack this thread but they can be summed up by a hypothetical conversation I could have with a kid. "See Johnny, they don't like me but they are all buying my books. That's because my books are based on MATH which they both need and can't do themselves. If my best subject was French, I couldn't do that."

So I let black hooker, young girl stories perpetuate well beyond what was true for the sake of promoting math education? Actually yes. But if you expect me to comment further you will need to take it to the SMP forum.

I'm truly shocked. This changes everything.

Wait wait wait...brandi has a different story that does not involve her robbing someone and taking the goods over state lines....who woulda thought that.

Sounds like an MMA fighter to me. "Uh...ref...HELLO!! That was a low blow."

Whoever said it hit the nail on the head, the person posting on the BTOC account is probably not someone named Mike Sweet (or if it is, the guy is an absolute moron). Every serious athlete knows that bench press doesn't mean ****. Also, the person would also know that anyone serious could look him up to see if he even has any fights, and the name Mike Sweet (or Michael) has never had a professional fight. Beyond that, anyone who knows how MMA training works knows that saying you're in Tito's camp doesn't mean anything more than I train under a guy who trained with a guy who trained under a guy who trained under a guy that trained Tito. Also, even though it's anecdotal, I do MMA, and every fighter that I've met/trained with has an immense amount of respect for the sport and doesn't brandish it as a tool to make them seem tough. Real fighters use it as an outlet for their toughness, and that is why almost all are quite humble and laid back outside of the gym.

seems pretty obv to me that it is brandi posting on the BTOC account under this newfound persona of the mma-meathead, who is likely a real person that she is currently *****/conning.

Sounds like the love of Brandon's life serves a hundred ships a day too.

This is a weird post and I can't tell if it's a level or not.
Just because you met a couple of muscle-guys who were super-nice doesn't mean that they all are.