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Originally Posted by NANONUTS
Another week, another moron of an OP gets scammed out of 10's of thousands of dollars by somebody he has never met in real life and can't believe it happened. How many times does this have to happen before people here cop on. When will people learn that you can trust nobody apart from family when it comes to large amounts of cash. Considering the amount of degeneracy and previous incidents in the poker community you would think poker players, more than anyone, would be wary of handing over cash to people they've never met....but no, they just do it again and again.
This was a ridiculous stake from start to finish. Handing over 25K in one go to a degen who you have never met and who has blew his own role in games where he had no edge. A degen who breaks the rules of the stake early on and sits in at a game he was not supposed to where he is the mark. Stake should have been pulled there and then when you see he can't abide be the rules and you already know he is a degen. Then the degen goes on to have a -18K session after he breaks the stop loss rule. And OP yet again shows what a naive fool he is by agreeing with this degen that he "legitimately forgotten about the stop loss agreement". This ROSSA85 dude is not some kind of braindead ****** and a staking agreement is not some super complicated deal. One basic rule was a 10K stop-loss, he said he 'forgot' about this and OP believed him, give me a break, no wonder he was able to blow 25K of stake money when he was dealing with a staker like this.
As with all the other threads where people have been scammed the situation could have been avoided by following the one simple logical rule - only be willing to lend/stake family, or friends you have known for years IRL.
Ok... i'll bite and then leave this thread alone, we get it YOU WOULDN'T OF STAKED HIM.
These types of replies are moronic. Staking is all about risk reward and no doubt jimmy took that into consideration with this stake.
What everyone seems to be forgetting when they type "stupid op, you're always going to get scammed staking", is the fact that most people only ever hear about the stakees that do scam... not about the many many more times everything goes smoothly and the stakee makes both parties decent profits, and in most circumstances outweighing (monetary wise) the times the amounts the staker gets scammed.
If you yourself are not comfortable with staking anyone bar close friends and family then that is fine... but don't preach to others about the rights and wrongs of staking people outside of your inner circle. There are plenty of players and reasons as to why it is perfectly sensible. And there are plenty of stories of close friends and families ****ing each other over too.
Don't let the occasional bad incident close your mind as to why staking people who you don't know but come with decent references can be an extremely plus ev venture. If it wasn't there wouldn't be so many clever and successful players continuing to stake many many players (whilst still being scammed by the occasional degen/thief or ******).