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601  Poker Forums / The Rail / Re: Interview wtih london pro Michael Piper (Wazz) on: September 21, 2010, 05:35:04 PM
I was sat at a cash table at DTD a few months back (think it was the Pokerstars thing) when this clown walked by looking like something out of a Showaddywaddy tribute band with his girlfriend. He pauses as they pass the table and points to a couple of young lads sat next to me. His girlfriend then stops as he scurries away, she then proceeds to lay into these 2 guys about money they seem to owe her boyfriend. She threatens to call police, the management and at one point I am sure she mentioned Tony Soprano. the young lads answers ranged from the money was sent to it wasn't me a big lad did it and ran away. After she left as they spoke to each other I heard the immortal lines "Railtard told me he had sent the money!!"


LOL multi level grimmaments. Poker players eh? what a stinking bunch......

Please get your facts straight before you make posts like this.

I do not look like anything out of a Showaddywaddy tribute band, whatever the hell that might be!

Partly relevant, but that was my ex-girlfriend. Not going into details publicly, but she believed he had scammed her new boyfriend. Out of loyalty to her (and her new boyfriend, who is one of the nicest guys in poker that I know and I'm sure you'd all agree), I pointed out who it was when she asked. I was not involved in any way shape or form other than helping identify the potential perp.
602  Poker Forums / The Rail / Re: Interview wtih london pro Michael Piper (Wazz) on: September 21, 2010, 05:34:17 PM
guy in my cash game last night who will remain nameless, and knows mike said he was pretty convinced he was using the money to play with.

I won't ask you to provide me with that name, but please be aware that he was very wrong.

My intentions were never to scam anyone or hold anyone's money for ransom: I'd suffered a lot of logistical problems in moving the money round without having me or the investors taking a hit in the form of charges, so to say sorry to my investors, I wanted to surprise them with a little extra profit.

I've been a professional poker player for over 4 years now, have been put in many compromising situations, and have come out of all of them with my head held high that I did the right thing. I have been coaching people, both live and online, for the last 3 years, and have never done anything the remotest bit dodgy in that time, again despite having many opportunities. I would like to make the bold claim that I have over 50 ex-students who would be willing to say publicly that, aside from being somewhere between a good and great coach, I have never done them bad in the slightest; one ex-student asked for his money back (and I gave it to him) after I missed a couple of appointments ~2.5 years ago, when I was going through personal troubles, and other than that, I highly doubt one single person would even be willing to say privately that I had acted in the slightest bit dodgy. I've also escrowed something in the region of $30k for other people and had the privileges of mod powers on 2+2 for about 6 months I think, and never abused those powers.

NumptyD summed it up well. I do and always have had the best of intentions, but from time to time show a lack of judgement.
603  Poker Forums / The Rail / Re: Interview wtih london pro Michael Piper (Wazz) on: September 21, 2010, 05:20:17 PM
Hi guys. I've paid everyone off now, and fwiw I'm still left with a healthy bankroll.

Made this post on 2+2 hopefully to underline the whole issue. I would like to be able to rejoin the live UK poker community and not have people judging me for a lack of complete information or gossip.

'So now everyone is paid off.

I'd like to repeat that I'm sorry for letting people down. A lot of people defended me, and while that fills my heart with warmth, I'm disappointed in myself that I've made other people look bad.

I'd like to say sorry publicly to all the moderators and powers that be on 2p2 for showing me patience.

I completely understand the attitude in this forum, fwiw. The poker community has been through a number of scandals and traumas in the last couple of years, and with the benefit of hindsight I can see why this looked so bad. I bear absolutely no ill will towards anyone who said anything in the slightest big negative about me, either publicly here or in private.

I would like to repeat that there was never anything scammy going on in my head whatsoever. To make up for the delay in paying out my investors, I wanted to surprise them with a little extra money, and didn't see anything wrong with making a bit for myself at the same time. When deciding to proceed with this plan, I just didn't consider it from all the angles.

For what it's worth, I did contact all my creditors and asked them whether they were happy to wait until all the stuff in London rolled round, and if they said no, I would have found a way to pay them before. They were all happy with the plan, so I saw no reason not to go ahead.

At the end of the day, in my mind, this was a mix of a lot of bad luck, from not being able to receive my winnings in my stars account to the bank screwing me over repeatedly, and a healthy dose of incompetence, lack of foresight, irresponsibiliity and arrogance on my part. I've learnt that the most important thing when it comes to debts and investors is to put them first.'

Would like to say thanks to jackinbeat, numptyd and dmorgan for standing up to me.

Would also like to say sorry publicly to luckyscrote - thanks for putting up with me this summer, I wasn't aware of how selfish I was at the time. I had a really good time in that house this summer btw.
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