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Poker Forums / Diaries and Blogs / Re: Vegas & The Aftermath - Diary
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on: May 29, 2026, 02:54:06 AM
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Best of luck Tony, will be following your progress with interest, whether it be via your updates or on chip count lists and results sheets. As for me, i’ve had another topsy turvy year. When I was last briefly active on here last year, i’d been writing for a site called Poker Pro, having published a bot farm expose story on there the previous year. I did quite a lot of reporting last year at live poker events and covered UK players’ progress in a regular report throughout the WSOP (from afar). Since then i’ve set up my own site www.mttdb.com and together with one other co-founder we are running that and a poker news site called www.pokerindustrynews.com. They are meant to be side projects but as I don’t have any significant paid gigs at the moment, apart from a spot of SEO writing for gambling.com, they’ve become my main focus, especially MTTDB, which is a live and online poker event planner and analytics site. It’s just 7 months old but has come a long way and we are quite proud of what we’re building. It’s not perfect, has glitches and some mistakes, but we’re aiming to curate the most comprehensive poker db with just two people, so it’s gonna happen like that until we either make a bit of cash or get some volunteers to help fill and check the accuracy of it all. We have over 200 live festivals listed, 70 venues (mostly in USA) with daily schedules plus over a dozen online poker room mttt schedules. We also have results and player pages from key tours, but not a full data set. We’re not aiming to be the hendon mob, although there’s some overlap. Just launched a live events news feed so will be experimenting with some live event coverage on that, for the wsop and other events. Speaking of which (brag time) i’ve just won two seats into the Battle of Malta (i live here) Main Event from an accumulator milestone satellite. €70 into 2 x €600 seats. Will be playing on Friday afternoon. Keen to hear feedback on the sites, good and bad. |
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Poker Forums / Live Tournament Staking / Re: Stu Rutter WSOP Package, Wednesday 28th May 2025, selling at 1.05
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on: July 25, 2025, 08:29:22 AM
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I wrote a regular report on the World Series of Poker and I wrote an article at the start of the series about players being staked. I was going to write a follow up on this, including a section about easypickings, his staking offer and the events that unfolded at the WSOP that led to him admitting in his own thread that “the rumours are true.”
I contacted him by private messages to ask him for more info, telling him I intend to write about it in an article on Poker.Pro. He responded, pleading me not to do this, but told me no details about what had transpired.
I then received two messages from other people, asking me not to do this. At no point had I publicly posted that I’m going to do this, so these people must have been informed by easypickings of my intentions. Their messages were very similar, arriving shortly after each other.
I replied to one of these, saying that the story is already out there, easypickings has already admitted it, that the poker community needs to know about these sort of things, for it’s own protection and self-policing.
RobS posted some details of what may have happened. Easypickings sends me another message saying that the info posted is not correct. I asked him to explain further. I’ve had no response on this question, just further messages pleading me not to publish anything, including saying that publishing this would likely lead to another suicide attempt.
He says that literally everyone in UK poker knows the story now, so there’s no moral obligation for me to publish it. No need to warn anyone who might be a future backer, as they all know already and he’s done with it anyway, won’t be seeking any more backing ever again. He says it would simply be punishing him to put it in an article.
So I told easypickings that i was troubled by his statement that he’s done with “uk poker” and he should be quitting all poker, anywhere. That his future, for the good of his family, probably shouldn’t involve card games for money. I suggested he should make a statement to that affect and then I wouldn’t need to publish this piece. He wouldn’t commit to that however.
easypickings clearly needs help and I hope he gets it soon. He was in a terrible state of mind for months, due to his football conviction, yet actively sought out backers. Not for small change, for a significant six figure playing schedule.
People do like to help people out who are down on their luck and I can understand that some sympathy backing will take place and that’s ok, but for in excess of $60k? Really? This is not small change.
There were red flags here, did the backers know about the football conviction and poor state of mind caused by it? If they did, it’s surprising that they would agree to commit funds to someone in that state of mind.
There does need to be an article about staking and the dangers/things to look out for/how to do it safely and transparently. There are responsible gaming issues that need to be considered when staking, you could simply be feeding addiction by backing someone. The first red flag should be that someone, claiming to be a pro, is seeking backing at all. In all cases, the reason/need for backing should be explained. There are valid reasons for staking and safe ways to stake people or be staked (scamming works both ways) and I will cover this when i publish a piece about it. Whether it includes this sorry ass story, i’m not so sure.
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Poker Forums / Diaries and Blogs / Re: Vegas & The Aftermath - Diary
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on: June 17, 2025, 06:32:11 AM
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Hi Tony, did you yet, or are you planning to play WSOP Event #46 $1,000 Seniors NLH Championship? Asking as it’s one of the events I’m doing the event report for (I’m doing about a dozen event reports throughout the series, as well
as the Brit reports).
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Poker Forums / The Rail / Re: Brits at the 2025 WSOP
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on: June 14, 2025, 04:21:33 PM
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Bugger! Dont know how I've managed to miss these updates. Very nicely done, thank you. Can't wait to read about the last 15 years.
 +1. Would love to read about what's been happening since you moved on from GUKPT & then the Eureka Tour. That must have been best part of 15 years ago. He's been mainly turning up on the same flights as me, or stays at a 'friends' half a mile from where I stay in England for a few days or when I'm in Scotland he 'surprises' me and tell me he's close by if I want to meet up. Yet somehow we have avoided each other for the last few years (outside of poker events) despite living a few miles apart in Malta. And at Christmas Illuminations event a few years back. As Celtic says, we've ended up on the same flight to and from the UK randomly, usually on adjacent rows, at least three times. To help prevent this occurrence we usually share travel dates, but when we forget to, it always seems to happen.  |
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