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Originally Posted by Bobo Fett
I'm not sure if you'd consider this evidence, but in the second post of this thread you'll find a link to another thread where someone claimed he had been scammed for $200, which he got back in the end through another 2+2er, and someone else posted in that thread that a buddy of his had been taken for $6,500, and yet another poster mentioned a $3,500 Paypal scam, but neither of them gave anything in the way of details.
https://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/2...rtist-1691531/
Not vouching for any of these claims; just relaying the info.
Thanks, I kinda referenced those things indirectly. I read through the thread a while back when I first started paying a bit more attention to his posts due to this weird poker club. The $200 thing involves a lot of correspondence between them, which I would have to imagine people getting taken for 5k+ would also have. Tbh, somebody willing to ship that amount of money to some idiot on IG... I don't exactly default to believing them. I also don't default to believing some guy that knows a guy, lol.
Dude's been spamming ads nonstop over the last few days, now having ppl contact the people that he gave these sign up bonuses to (I don't want to out them, because I don't know if they are stupid/naive or involved somehow, I tend to think the former.) By getting these other people promoting, he can take a step back from the advertising aspect and distance himself even more so the "500/week for advertising" he claims he gets paid (it's this sort of pandering BS that irks me, but his followers eat it up apparently) could actually ever make sense.
His actual account has little to no mention of pokerclub.ag anymore, but he uses the IG story feature which deletes content after 24hrs. Given HOW MUCH content he pumps out for this site, this alone makes it pretty obvious that he knows what he is doing is super illegal. Now, I know a lot of people that will willingly break the law for $, but won't steal a dollar from another person. Neither are good, obviously, but I've met a lot of real sweetheart criminals in my day, so there are weird distinctions. I'd guess as a poker pro, you have a lot of experience with people like this.
borg, you seem super bitter in every post and I don't really get why. I get that you think he's a douche bag, but outside of this $200 debacle, there's very little actual proof... it's almost all just hearsay. Again,
my gut says he is a scammer, but it's based on very loose facts that really only need verification to flip the switch from "just an idiot trying to hustle" to "dude actually stealing money from people". I actually really hope I am wrong.
"But if someone looks at his Instagram page and is stupid enough to get ripped off by such an obvious over the top crook they almost deserve to get ripped off."
If he's scamming idiots for poker staking, that is way different in my mind than baiting people into depositing into a card room that isn't on the up and up. The latter is not okay at all, and if you seriously think they deserve to be ripped off, you are just as big of a douche bag. As far as the "posted false chip stacks" thing... a -lot- of people do that, it's pretty much how instagram works dude. It doesn't make it right, but it's so commonplace that for the IG pros, it's almost mandatory to present yourself way above your actual means. In poker, we have idiots that have asked for ridiculous mark up and got it. That's the sort of thing that is worthy of criticism, but it's between them and the equivalent of a bad investment. We also have people that oversell to buyers and wind up cashing because they are brain dead morons. In this case the bad information given to investors means a lot more, for obvious reasons. That is the sort of situation that this parallels for me. Is he a douche bag salesman, or an actual thief?
Also fwiw, sorry I said slander, I was way off there, ty for the correction.