i'm leaning more towards a website called bradboothisascamer.com or something.
lets it get popular alot quicker.

typical excuse.. i'll stop pming all your friends when you pay doug his money.. doesn't matter why or not he set out to screw someone.. HE DID

what he didn't realize is that WCGRider is a very long time member of the Poker community who has earned the respect of a lot of people who will go to bat for him. Easiest way to make the pain stop is to pay theat man his manies!

Where did he get the money for the video camera? If all I had was $100 at the moment to give towards my balance, you best believe im sending it.

As long as the online sites keep allowing money transfers, the idiots will keep sending money to people whom they have never met or recently met.

OP...you just learned the same lesson that thousands of players have learned in the past, and unfortunately thousands will learn in the future.

Who cares how sincere he is? I'd be sincerely sorry if I got drunk and lost 30k that wasn't mine too. But i'm not that ******ed. Absolute scum. It was a swap, not a loan.

How can online poker be your weakness when you re a professional poker player?

LOL WUT???

Brad is a grown @ss F'n man, a poker celebrity. He has absolutely no defense in this type of situation....

Stealing is stealing --- great job Brad, hope the $28K was worth your dignity.

OP -- you should get the authorities involved, this is grand theft and a felony!

FYI HILARIOUSLY Ironic tweet from him- My god the hypocrisy https://twitter.com/YukonBrad/status/208416461205680129

LOL OMG.. Look at this ****.. he changed the wikipedia post.


In 2012, Brad Booth engaged in a cash for online swap with poker pro Doug Polk that followed a first, successful transaction. He apparently had the funds when the transaction took place but was unable to pay when the two parties met in person. Arrangements were made, but poor communication led to challenges when Booth returned to Canada where he has a different phone SIM/Number. He returned to Las Vegas and is in contact with the other party, though many consider his actions unethical.

i quickly replaced it.

if doug comes in here and confirms this i'll drop it.

foreveralone.jpg

i'm married but GG. just bored.. merge is down yo and dougs a nice dude who deserves his 28k back.

Although I think you mean well, I have to take issue with this. I have seen lots of acts of charity in a casino. A friend of mine once bought a degen a full set of clothes because he was spending ALL his money on poker and had no money for food or clothes...he was homeless, did yardwork for a buy-in and lost it all every day in the poker room. Lots of us have bought him food when it was apparent he wasn't eating. I've given, not loaned, money for a buy-in to people who were down and out and who I knew were not good for a loan. I've been completely broke and had meals and hotel rooms bought for me and I've done the same. There are lots of people with mental problems and gambling addictions in casinos and I take no pleasure in taking their money and it doesn't hurt to show a little kindness. I travel a lot and I've met kind-hearted people in poker rooms all over the world. As a matter of fact I think poker players are more charitable than other people. When I've needed money and asked for a loan I've had friends or family ask me "What do you need it for?"; poker players never ask that, they just say yes and fork over the money.
Johnny, you seem to be trying to paint a picture of the wise old rounder but you're trying too hard. For all I know you've never played a hand of poker. Maybe you were the shoe-shine boy outside Binions?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zbNieYoaos

Just watched this and it's hard to say it's not heartfelt

The power of 2+2.

If you're a creditor who'd rather have YB give you his last monies as partial payment and stop gambling, then you truly are an idiot deserving of ridicule.

And that's why people berating others who post about being scammed is ******ed.. I'm sure there are some who don't like to post threads like this because of all the hostile comments they may get.. (obv not saying it's solved at all but.. provoked a reaction + saved other potential victims)..

That was a sincere video and I feel for him....that being said if you are a grown man and you owe people that much money and you actually want to do something to change it's time to get off your ass and get a real job with guaranteed money. What happens if he strikes out at the World Series and makes no money? Sounds more like a serious addiction to me....tryin to dig yourself out of the hole by doing what originally put you in the hole seems somewhat counter productive. I hope he does well for everyone else's sake...if not I think it's time he seeks professional help.

Good Luck Brad & OP... Hope he gets it right this time around.

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/sh....php?t=1207857

Brad Booth's Apology to WCGrider, Others, and Poker Community

(Mod, should these two threads be merged?)

wow sucks doug - gl getting that loot back

Cool post Johnny. I may not agree with every word of it, but it was well-written and had a real point of view - who gives a fk about anything else!

Loaning money in the poker community is sort of like drinking and driving.

It doesn't matter how many cautionary tales out there, people still insist on making the same mistake over and over and over again.

uhm... and you are posting this why? what do you want us to do with that?

I can't think of anything more idiotic than loaning a gambling addict money to gamble with. Especially a gambling addict that already has creditors up to 7 figures. Anyone who knowingly lends BB money after he has made this public deserves what they get, any other creditors should cut their losses and take this as a lesson learned. There is basically no realistic chance he will be able to raise 7 figures to pay off his debts.
I have personal experience with addiction - not to gambling - and attend various sessions (cbt and self help groups) 2 or three times a week, am doing very well, and want to make it clear I am not judging BB harshly at all, but know that a gambling addict will always **** up until they stop gambling.
The video is just a gambling addict doing what a gambling addict does, nothing more or less.