Hello all this is my friends account I am posting on. My name is Mark Herm aka dipthrong I am a fairly well known backer in the mtt community. I had a situation come up where I felt as though someone tried to scam me and I will post about it here. The person this involves is Ben Warrington aka Kidcardiff6 on pokerstars aka benwa1 on Twitter. I bought 25 % of this player at 1.15 mu in the venetian 5k main event. I sent him the money on pokerstars for two bullets as he requested. I noticed he posted this on twitter monday


5:34 pm est "@benwa1: Venetian 5k #tripsaver"

Then shortly thereafter I receive some messages from him on fb updating me on his status in the event. (note timestamps)

6:49 pm est Ben Warrington: Ugly beat- firing second
7:09 pm est Mark Herm: KK gl
5:26 am est Ben Warrington: didnt make day 2...didnt run good today :/
11:39 am est Mark Herm: all good bro thanks for the sweat. can u send me a picture of the tourney receipts?

Something about the nature of the messages had me be a bit suspicious but regardless I did my due diligence as a backer and asked him for a picture of the tourney receipts as you see above. After several hours (note the timestamps) I received this back

6:23 pm est Ben Warrington: Just fired one in the end mark, was gonna re enter then spun it up from 1200 at 150/300 to 25k but busted after dinner, didn't re enter yday and reged for today 1c for 2nd bullet but decided to skip it, honestly am just ready to go home, I probably have the receipt in my trousers somehwere tbh i don't usually keep them but i will have a look


(posts picture of one receipt)

Found it- if thats the receipt u meant
$1437.50 back to the account received?


Upon receiving these messages I was very suspicious and believed as though I had been scammed as his story changed from 2 bullets to 1 when I asked him for a tournament receipt. The long amount of time in between messages didn't help his case either.


Ben Warrington: Sorry- was planning on firing second today but being honest I had a heavy night last night and am not in good shape to fire it

Mark Herm: Its super obvious you tried stealing from me

Ben Warrington: Thats not the case Mark. Have never stolen from an investor. Can we have skype call please.

Mark Herm: Thats comforting to know. Send me my ****ing money back.



Obviously I was super aggravated at this point and I proceeded to talk to him over the phone and he said that vegas had him all disoriented and he was quite out of it. Also he mentioned getting drunk that night and that had something to do with it. I told him I was going to post this here on 2p2 and he really did not want me to do that as it may hurt his chances of selling in the future.

Upon our talk on the phone Ben immediately sent half the money back so our issue is resolved but I felt the need to post this here as I feel I was trying to be taken advantage of. So there's all the information obviously it's clear what my stance on the situation is but that's all I will say about it. Any other questions feel free to ask.