oh, i thought it was a pic of the guy who created o town and is now in jail for 25years for stealing 300M from investors. i think his name is ron pearlman or something like that.

Lou Pearlman...and he's twice as fat!

I'm a UM student in Ann Arbor this summer taking classes. I also play the 2/5 game about once a week at MGM and I think I have an idea who Alex might be...does he have an eastern-EU accent like ukranian or polish? Does he wear a sports jacket all the time? Check your PMs.

Is there any more posters who claim to know OP or Alex? Last call...

This is getting worse than a FPP satellite! Now we're running the "I think I know Alex" angle?

OP I am not giving you any credit for logic cuz you have done nothing but one shady, short term gain at the expense of your own future thing after another throughout this whole story. Your recent enlightenment is more suspicious than admirable.

There are four possibilities here:

1. Story is phony.

2. A third party stole the money.

3. Alex scammed you

4. You scammed Alex


#3 Comical. There is zero chance this is a scam by Alex on you. You are broke and nobody pulls elaborate scams on people with no money, ever. Waste of time. Killing you doesn't fit with this scenario anyway so this line of thinking is a waste of time.

2/3rds of the remaining options leave you as a liar and or thief, both of which you are, by your own admission, but for arguments sake (by scenario):

1. Stop it.

2. Do not pay him. Involve police if you are scared. Period.

4. Pay him.

I think you did it, you are going to pay him, problem solved.

if OP did take the money, how would he hide it? and how would he get it out of the country?

This is goot line!

OP needs to wax this chump like a candle.
Light up his stage and rock the mic like a vandal!

I think I know Alex. Start of this year I admitted that I was interested in moving to France on these forums.

I was contacted by a guy who called himself Alex and he said if I could prove I was a winning player then he could stake me for live and online games working from Nice. That this was standard practice for him as long as I was a young male and a winning poker player.

It seemed strange and I didn't need staking of any kind so after exchanging a number of messages I broke off contact.

P.S. Needless to say, now I'm quite happy I didn't take on his offer lol.

I don't mean to be harsh at you....it's just there's all these people coming out of the dark and claiming things to "back" this story. I just don't like some of these threads here. Especially one that seems sooooooooooo outlandish and is full of holes.

Would you please stop trying to play Tom Cruise in "A Few Good Men"?

One could read this thread and determine you're sleeping with the OP!

+1 for lyrics

-1 for choice of artist

Well I think scepticism is healthy; it's what made me not go to Nice with Alex and would have helped the OP too.

shipshipship,

can you find that thread?

His post has nothing to do with this.....let's not sidetrack you nit!

shipshipship is clearly an old account of someones (probly OP, but could be one of the other "detectives")

Well!

There's a new technoish/house mix I heard last night(morning) at the Phuket after hours Club. The new mix/version doesn't even have the original singer.

+1 for using remix

why does none of the logic in this story make sense to me. alex gets 30k euro stolen and u have to pay it back? he says he'd respect u more if u actually stole the monies instead of stealing the steaks he gave u? weird people, must be a michigan thing.

What is the latest in this thread? Anyone actual proof that it's true or false yet?

[x] French Alex needs to post moar

OP you said earlier Alex knows about twoplustwo and has read this thread specifically. That being said, why would you say you plan on paying him back some money then seeing if he demands more or continues to threaten you to determine if he was indeed scamming you? Obviously stating this as your plan to determine if he is a scammer is flat out ******ed given your statements about his knowledge of this thread.

Also, chances of someone RANDOMLY checking OPs/Alex's apartment door to see if it was unlocked then breaking in is HIGHLY unlikely. Theives usually dont just pick random apartment complexes and go door to door checking to see which is unlocked. What is even more unlikely is that they found 30k stashed in the apartment without tearing the place apart. It almost seems like, strangely enough, they knew where to find it. Im surprised more people aren't brining this up.

Given this, it seems you or Alex is lying. Given you show all the markings of a complete degen (busting roll playing drunk, lying constantly to Alex/your friend etc...) and you were quite desperate (online account broke, no money, losing quite a bit in your staking agreement) I really think you just stumbled upon the 30k yourself and prolly couldn't resist.

You knew you were going to get kicked out at the end of the month if you hadnt shown a profit and you had been losing quite a bit so showing that profit seemed quite unlikely. You also have lied quite often to Alex and shown some ridiculously immature and douchey behavior. You seem like the perfect candidate for just stealing the money yourself and making up some BS story about how you lsot your key and left door unlocked. In retrospect you probably shouldve just kicked in the door or at least trashed the place to make it look realistic because no thief is going to find 30k hidden away quickly without tossing through everything. Also, no thief is going door to door looking for an unlocked apartment. No thief is going to leave everything else neat and orderly because theyre usually rushing like hell to get valuables and get out. Speaking of valuables, most thieves are probably carrying a duffel bag or something and making away with other valuables, not just looking for straight cash. while the thief may have just left once he found 30k the chances of him finding that first are rare so he probably would've been stuffing any valuable electronics, etc into his bag first.

However, also story seems weird from Alex's view. Why would he even bring you to France if you had been losing before? Also, who leaves 30k with some random low stakes grinder you are staking in the same apartment? Why wouldn't he want to get police involved if he had legitimately been robbed of 30k?

Cliff notes: Does not sound like work of a real burglar. Alex or OP is lying. Given OP's history and previous shady behavior, most likely OP. If story isn't a level OP prolly took 30k. If not Alex is prolly trying to con him (staking someone and bringing them to France with you seems a little questionable).

Confirmed

Maybe its just me, but i hear you can hide money and move it across borders using some new fangled invention called a bank.

Anyway, i only read OP and skimmed the first couple of replies and this last page, why is this thread so long when its clearly a made up story?

Cliffnotes if there is anything juicy in the past 600 or so posts?

lol

Does anyone else find peculiar the repeated and strenuous assertiions by OP apologists that there are "no holes" in the story and "no contradictions" and thus, OP's story is "100% true"?

Last I checked OP has brought forth zero evidence as to the ultimate facts in the story: (1) OP held 10k for Alex while crossing international lines; (2) Alex kicked OP out of apartment for the supposed theft of 30k; (3) OP was homeless for 5 days; and (4) OP did not bring an ATM/Debit/Credit card to France for what potentially was a multi-month trip and so essentially left the United States in sole reliance on Alex bankrolling his poker game, food and lodging.

Last I checked, proof of extraneous facts does not a truthteller make, though certainly an art of thieves. Hence the BBV mantra: Pics or GTFO.

Sincerely,
The Magnificent Matty Moose