OJ was one of the greatest players of all time though.

OJ at least was a great talented player.
But if the achievments are being sponsored by fulltilt and the contributions are all the money he lost playing at high stakes, then he deserves to be in the HOF.

Did Eli own a photo booth years ago and blackmail people for their unique let’s say personal pictures?
Did Eli go after and slander the families and kids he owed money?
Did Eli buy votes from a few dubious, broke HOF players?
Does Eli have Felonies for some of his unscrupulous business rackets?
Did Eli con and lie to Mason M to back his book?
Did Eli scam everyone in his AME posts?
Did Eli just move to Israel to evade the law and dozens of lawsuits against him?
The answer, yes he did.

This is only a small proportion, the rest would fill 5 pages on this thread!

While Eli has more than his share of skeletons in his closet and I do not agree with his selection to the HOF, you are making some factual accusations which may be difficult to support. IMO you appear to be treading very close to slander unless you can support your statements. Factually supporting statements which impugn motivation are difficult to prove.

Not that difficult

Have at it, then. For starters, try providing evidence for the felonies. And were they felony charges or felony convictions?

Well, it’s posted on this thread and it looks like it is Las Vegas charges and lawsuits. Either look through all the annoying post or in clerk of court in Nevada,California and other states. I don’t have the time.

First it was “not that difficult”. Now you don’t have time and suggest we do your work for you.

You made the claims. It would be on you to support them.

Lawsuits are not felonies. Those will only be adjudicated in criminal court. As to what is posted here would at best be hear say evidence. Just because you saw something does not make it true or accurate. Note that saying I saw it posted is not a defense for posting the claim yourself.

He has both, which is in this thread and in Clark County Clerk of court. As I noted, I’m not going to do the work for YOU. Look through it yourself. I’m certainly not going to fight over that Eli dirt bag with you or answer to your ignorance.

Obviously, your not in the same poker world that most of us are!

Listen carefully from about the 11' mark. Chip Reese, when it came to gambling, was nobody's "friend." I won't say he was always cutthroat, but he was a shrewd, Ivy League educated professional gambler. When Eli explains that Chip would ask him to call Doyle, Eli's perception seems incredibly naïve even decades later. Chip and Doyle played a lot together. They would often hang out and slowly, casually play heads up, waiting for a sucker to stumble upon the poker action. Chip needed Eli to call Doyle, so Doyle could hear in Eli's own words that some high stakes poker action was about to start. What good would it have done Chip or Doyle for either of them to speculate with each other about whether Eli was going to play?

Chip and Doyle really understood the ecosystem and how to build a game. Eli says the games were juicy, so there must have been fishier action to at least keep him alive in them. Chip and Doyle knew they couldn't just play $1k/$2k with Eli forever. He'd be tapped out in no time. They assembled a network of poker that was probably worth into the 8 figures for each of them in the decade from '95 or so until Chip's death.

Eli takes pride in his friendships with Doyle and the late Chip Reese, but Eli and his family would have been so much better off never knowing either of them. On the other hand, life isn't all about money.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Zefc2upplA

Interesting points. Why could have Doyle trust Chip's comments. Seems like really risking tapping the glass.

Doyle had been a road gambler. Chip was going to go to a top MBA school. There are MBA corporate managers and investment bankers who make even more money by doing somewhat shady stuff. Same with doctors and lawyers.

Presumably Doyle and Chip could start a short-handed $1K/2K or whatever game and at least hold their own against any reg who joined. Maybe that is the basis of the story Moss told about playing Dandalos HU in 1949. Maybe they played HU partly for the challenge, but made money if some sucker or weaker reg decided to join for a while.

I would assume that once they got one or two suckers / recreational players, a full table would appear to play $1K/2K+. It would be hard for them to keep it 3-handed with a fish.

Those $1K/$2K plus mixed games do not seem to be going as much now. Some of it seems to be at Aria rather than Bellegio. Maybe fish are more careful with their money with the virus and so on. At least from what I can see on Bravo, their do not seem to be much high stakes games now, mixed, PLO, or NLHE.

There have been some strange HOF elections, but this is maybe the strangest, and it is obvious something is going on.

Eli appeared on early televised poker tournaments. I think he won one in WPT Season 1. He just finished well in the $50K 8-game with 60 entries, and had the lead at the final table.

I remember an apparent random at a mid-stakes game tell stories about playing 200-400 in the 90s with all these big names. Some people are willing to pay partly to feel apart of that.

It sounds kind of like hustling, and something a lot of people would not want to get involved in. However, it may be sort of standard for top players to play HU at high stakes. Online, you can just sit in whatever room, and it is definitely a way to get a game going. Sometimes, I was trying to start an uncommon game online and it was sort of a problem as you had to play HU against a good reg to get it started and if you were winning, sometimes the other player would leave.

I remember seeing 3 players, 2 of them I knew from TV playing 50/100 PLO8 around 2005. I would assume they tip or pay off the floor to start a short handed game. Management may like it, as it may attract people to the poker room and casino. They set up the room called Bobby's Room. I played at Bellagio during the WSOP partly to see the big names in the big games there. Now sometimes it might be empty, as they sometimes have nothing higher than 5/10NL or 40/80 holdem. Moss said he played Dandalos in the front of the casino and sometimes fish would buy into the game. So maybe it attracted spectators, who would play slots or whatever.

It seems kind of win/win. At worst Doyle and Chip get to practice playing a top player HU. If some regular joins, they probably make money, if a fish joins, then more. Once a sucker / rec joins, they probably get full table of regs and can probably beat all of them. Seems a little man bites dog for the 2 British American guys (one red necky and the other preppy) to be the ones scamming.

Uh.....

I just wanted to say you have no idea how much I love the color purple. It is my favorite color by far. I sacrificed a lot to earn a purple scree name and also chose my university entirely because it’s color and mascot was purple and I would go back in time and fight for the carthaginians because they made their wealth with purple dye and every time I see something purple I fall in love again. Any amount of prose I devoted to the color of purple would misunderestimate my love of purple.

I fell asleep in the theater while watching The Color Purple.

^ can confirm, I watched Dream Crusher sleep in the theater

Eli just won the$10k WSOP plo hi-lo for $600k interestingly Chino Rheem second for $377k

yhtsi unless Eli pays back some debts...

He'll never pay back his debts. Neither will Chino. They deserve each other.

Dnegs in todays vlog mentioned along the lines of

"someone who won a bracelet this year has owed me 20k for like a decade, lets see if I get any taste! Probably not because most of these people who don't pay think I don't need the money - even though I don't its still mine! "

Made me immediately think of Elezra

I wonder if with Chino being sober has any effect on his abilities to repay his debts going forward.


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That's a pretty funny 1-2. Elezra has 5 bracelets now, which obviously makes him one of the best poker players around.

I’m sure his list of who he owes is quite long. Daniel might be near the bottom of importance.

It's almost like they worked in tandem

Why would Daniel be at the bottom of importance?

The whole you don’t need the money as an excuse not to pay someone back tilts me so much… I’ve heard people say this on multiple occasion.

It’s actually a really self centered thought imo. Like bc someone worked harder or has more than me I’m entitled to screw them somehow.

It’s a complete and total disrespect for others.

I don’t care if I owed warren buffet $20 I would still make right on my debts.

It’s not that hard people to live up to your word.

End rant