Given the situation, there is no way we could consider restaking him and it is important this thread is on here so others are away of his behaviour. If a player plays in accordance to the contract then I agree they are not obliged to pay back make up if dropped, but if a player seriously violates the contract there needs to be protection for the backer that the player will be punished in this instance otherwise there is no incentive for them not to do it again (i.e being obliged to pay back the make up). These terms are clearly laid out in any contract we give to a player.

Update:
We exchanged some e-mails with Mark where he offered to pay back the stolen money and play to make back the make up. Given the situation, we explained restarting the deal was not an option (given he was out of contact for months and any personal issues cited took place before we took him on and were never mentioed prior to our last email exchanges) and we are more than happy for a third party knowlegable in these situations to adjudicate the fairest outcome. He was adamant in wanting no third party mediation and has not sent back anything.

Full Name: Mark Hawkins
2+2 username: The Falcon
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PokerStars: Kinghawko
Betfair: TheFalcon
Blonde Poker: Kinghawko



Mark Hawkins applied to Fish&Chips around March 10 looking for a long term stake in 180s. After confirming his details and getting in touch with his reference we took him on a makeup deal. He kept in touch regularly and kept playing for us until June 20; at that point he was 1.4k$ in makeup and had 600$ left in the pokerstars account (we sent him 2k$ including reloads). After that day he completely disappeared, we tried contacting him repeatedly with no success. We got in touch with his reference a few weeks ago; he told us that Mark would contact us shortly on skype to clear things up. We gave him plenty of time to do so, but he never materialized online so it has come to this.