What's mind blowing is your emotional screed of how you can't watch a televised poker show because one of the participants owes another person some money, both of whom you don't even know.

I think there have been a couple instances of subtle jabs towards Eli from Doyle and Lamb, but maybe I'm reading too much into it.

How do I get this Poker Go app thingy, asking for a friend..

If someone is staking him in the game, it's not like he can just decide to pay Cole or Abe with that money instead of playing in the game. If he really considers himself a winner in the game and so does his backer, this would be how he potentially makes money to pay his debts (whether he actually intends to do so is a separate issue).

So wish that most of this stuff wasn't just bs lies

I've met both, plus the parrot.

wait a minute....the parrot's name is Leesa!!

I get that but Eli claimed in here that he always has 100% of himself. I think he should put out there for all to see who is staking him if there is a person. Eli could be playing all himself. Unfortunately you can't believe anything that comes out of his mouth so in there lies the problem. Also Eli could just ask 1 of his Israeli friends to lie and say he is staking Eli. No way to ever know the truth.

My favorite post on this entire thread! And just as meaningful.

Not only was Abe not on the list, and cleared of ALL wrongdoing, the judge took a break during the sentencing to publicly berate Preet Brahaha for bringing the charges against him, and wasting government time and resources, stating that he seemed to be nothing more than a brilliant poker and game playing mind, and that he wished that there were more government workers as intelligent as him, because things would run alot smoother.

It is incredibly rare for a federal judge to make this kind of statement about a defendant.

That is the kind of person Abe is. His character shouldn't even get consideration of being lowered because of that whole mess. If anything, it should be raised. It wasn't his business how those russians were getting their money. He was just hustling it off them in card games.

**** Preeth Bahrahrah.

Are you a private investigator, a dead mobster, Abe's girlfriend, or is this really *TT* back from the dead?


funny. when I scanned that post I thought it said "my wife is 6'2 and weighs 225". true story.

Just a quick pop-in. Let's try to tone down the vitriol in this thread a bit (especially among the "spectators"). We don't need a bunch of hot-takes or attempts to one-up the outrage on either "side" here. This thread is naturally wild and woolly all on its own.

And let's eliminate posts calling for mods to do various things. Use the "post report" functionality if you see a particularly egregious post, but please don't call for another poster to be banned in the thread itself (doing so can, paradoxically, result in you receiving a temp-ban). You can be assured that several mods are monitoring this thread (it's a doozy) and, as you can probably tell, are allowing a fair amount of "questionable" posts since this thread is so crazy.

Finally, if one or more posters really annoy you, feel free to skim/skip/ignore their posts. Thank you all very much.

This is like the online version of a murder mystery dinner.

If it were hosted by Linda Belcher.

Can't wait for Elezra to declare his account to be set up with 2p2, so they can get in touch with Abe for the sole reason to find out if he really has a Russian girl or not.

Now the songs have been sung and the dust covers the floor, they've succeeded in making Abe pretend he does have a Russian girl.. but than Abe did catch on their plan and tells the public the girl doesn't exist to save face. In the mids off al this, Eli's book sky rockets and is playing the stakes solely from the royalties.

Next weekend Abe and Eli drink a beer, served by 2p2.

Better grab a Snickers ...

You're telling me. Apparently I got scammed out of a bunch of money I thought was going to a PI firm that was supposed to be posting ITT.

Why wouldn't you want to play against someone that has debt problems?

Which are you: Tito Ortiz, Randy Couture, or Chuck Liddell?

Gan McGee is that you?

So, what you're saying is that it's no different than the games that aren't televised.

Odds that Eli would pay Abe back if Eli won the main event?

Eli is doing the two things he loves.....playing poker and stiffing debts.

What do you want to hear from me? He has won. He ain't paying back **** and the people he owes money to leave him alone.

Good for the guy.

Wrong on both counts.

First of all, he actually pled guilty to multiple counts of tax fraud during this case had a sentencing hearing sometime in 2014. So no he wasn't 'cleared of ALL wrong doing'.

Secondly, you can look through all the court transcripts and documents on pacer and you will not find any mention of this incident of the judge extolling Abe's virtues and berating Preet for bringing this case. This was made up by a now banned forum poster a few years ago.

you are correct.

Original info on this was my fault. After scanning link below, I didn't catch Abe's name until I went back and read more carefully after your post.

Im pretty sure after I posted the link and erroneously said Abe did not plead nor was convicted of anything, whoever was posting on Abe 2+2 acct at the time, posted that this was correct and that they? (Abe) did not plead to anything. Cant find that post.

https://www.fbi.gov/contact-us/field...bling-business


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Oh, the horror! Taxpayer money hard at work.

I don't know about all of you, but I feel much safer knowing that these criminals who facilitate adults being able to make sports bets are prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Merica!

I know there was always speculation about this, but have any of the players on these shows come out and said this 100%? I mean the guys who have lost huge pots sure looked convincing to me. Well, except for lingren. That scumbag just don’t care.

This seems like the type of story you'd make a D-level spy movie out of.

The private investigator angle is nothing more than a deus ex machina designed to cover up any gaps in Abe's posts. After all if it's the PI that controls it, then they can lie to reach their ends without Abe's reputation suffering. Plus, a private investigation firm is...private. Nobody being investigated by a PI firm upon is supposed to know that they are being investigated.

I'd also bet that the podcast/Poker News angle of setting up Leesa as phony to lure Eli to make up a bull**** story in an interview is also a lie. There's absolutely no incentive in doing that because Eli's integrity can't get any lower than it already is. Such an elaborate setup to gain nothing is the kind of incompetence you'd see in an episode of Archer, not in real life.

What really happened was that this is getting way bigger than Abe expected. He lost control of the narrative and is trying to save face from this mess by distancing himself from his previous posts and muddying the waters on what the truth actually is by pinning it on a non-existent entity instead of connecting it to his own reputation.