Story checks out

Did CTS ever get paid?

take a wild guess

lol what i dont get is everyone itt being like they are from some other planet. What happened to Eli makes perfect sense, pretty bad player with huge ego and willing to do anything to stay in those games, happens every day in every city, every day, obviously at smaller scale mostly but not even that, people borrow millions to gamble, lose it all, lose everything, it happens all the time, its the only possible scenario, or lets say 99% scenario for some people, its very much normal, its the ego on this guy that he just keeps trying to portray himself as someone he is not that is the pathetic.

wow if true

Why are you bumping this nonsense?

Time to refire infractions for no-content bumps.

2019 WSOP UPDATES
$1,500 Seven-Card Stud (EV#20)
Previous Event Next Event
Entries: 285 Remaining: 8
PLAYER
CHIP COUNTS
Eli Elezra
1,221,000

Chip leader

1st gets $93k

Eli won it

My guess is that the people he owe will get nothing.

93k will probably just cover some other WSOP buyins or maybe couple shots in boobys room , not exactly gonna clear his millions of debt

If he even had 100% of himself in this event ^

And pokernews and other outlets still cover this fool like he is some great person. This guy makes thieves like Chino Rheem look like Pope John Paul. Look I think in life we have probably all been taken or tricked to a degree. I know I have. But this scum has made zero effort paying anybody back or making it right. And he still obviously can walk around the Rio and play big events with zero consequences whatsoever. It's baffling to me.

Be interested to see if cole south or shaun deeb get a few quid out of this.

I am pretty sure he got all of his debt paid off from his massive book sales.

Yeah I know, it’s kinda ridiculous. I watched multiple pokergo mixed game streams with him on and none of the players or either of the commentators uttered a word about his scumbaggery. I mean Shaun ****ing Deeb was on one of them and even he didn’t say anything. Pretty amazing what people can get away with in the poker world.

It would probably not be a very good idea to talk about debts and scams of poker players on televised/streamed events that reach a broader audience. It would not shed a good light on the poker world for a casual viewer. No wonder there is no mention of it

Eh, maybe you have a point. But I’m not convinced that much of the broader audience are subscribing to pokergo and watching mixed limit games, but I could be wrong.

You could also go the other way and say that if all these scumbags are called out and eliminated from the game then the game would grow in reputation and the broader audience would grow, but again maybe i’m wrong; just one man’s opinion.

I agree with this POV. Also, I'd be surprised if producers/announcers/players had an understanding not to air dirty laundry, when they can easily speak privately about it on breaks.

I'd guess there's a lot of people that subscribe to Pokergo that are either rec players, pro players that don't follow/care about the gossip, or are players that don't play mix but want to learn, or are curious about these games.

It was the tv stuff - from Moneymaker to High Stakes Poker and Poker after Dark, that got the general public so excited and invested in this great game and the characters in it. Let's hope Pokergo and all the other content producers (from podcasts, streaming, tv, etc) carry the mantle the best they can, so that poker trends upward amongst the general public and the poker economy grows.

An alternate POV would be that controversies lead to better ratings and more exposure. When I was watching this in passing I actually didn't remember his story until I saw this thread.

Cole South said in a tweet they are now in contact and Eli is chipping away at the debt.

Ok fair play if he’s actually working on paying his debts. And congrats on the bracelet.

Nice to see scumbag Elezra playing the 50k championship today. Must be nice to cheat and owe millions but can walk around the Rio with pride and play $50,000 tournaments. Total f'n joke.

I am very interested in what Mason and his team delivers, Joey I have never been interested in reading Eli's book.