Reasons why I ask is it worth it?

[Bongo]

[Woodsey]

For services to anti-grimming in poker, I award Constantine Paperestis this badge.............

[StuartHopkin]

The rest of his team were proud Cos had been awarded the prestigous badge

[jambo22]

FWIW
i thought i would put my thoughts

Marc is no question a very talented poker player. Most of you posting on here would love to be within 50% as good as him at  tournament poker  I'm sure .
Arrogant , obnoxious , outspoken , cocky , and probably this is because he's way too young to have won so much money.He obviously hasn't the wise years of  experience to respect it . Easy come easy go !
He's been stupid with his winnings. Yes both as a player and a backer too.He thought he could gamble his way out of a very ridiculous situation he got himself into considering how much money he has won playing mostly online poker .  
However ,the posters on  this forum and 2+2 need to appreciate just how it feels to win and then gamble away at least over £300k . I suggest almost all of you will have no idea whatsoever.
Gambling on horses , roulette , sports betting on betfair ,poker ,flips for £1k .Winning huge sums makes you feel invincible . Ego overload !

He's not a bad person so lets end the witch hunt eh.

Marc please take some advise from some one twice your age who knows .
 
1.Pay em all back with interest and an apology as soon as you can .
2.Just stick to tournament poker
3.Don't post antagonising crap on poker forums or in poker chat rooms
4. Enjoy the money when you win again instead of degenerate gambling it all away.
5. Your friends will be friends whether you are broke or rolling in it. There's no need to buy people or try to impress.

And finally fwiw i would back you all day long for  tournament poker if i was rolled enough but that don't mean i wanna be your mate : )
 

Don't know the guy, but based on what he's done I don't know how anybody can try and stick up for him and justify his actions. Being a degenerate gambler is NO excuse for stealing from people, and even if does pay everyone back, which i seriously doubt, how can he have the nerve to show his face in a casino again.

[jambo22]

Just to clarify.. in no way am i condoning what Marc has done . Its just sad to see such a talented player resort to such deeds because of an obvious gambling problem.

Skgv's comments with regard to the public accepting theft and seeing it go unpunished in our western society grates me too,as do many crimes that could be deterred by much harsher punishments.
Seeing as im extremely proficient  with an axe  , would i be asked to chop off the offending persons fingers ? lol
Severe punishment for a poker player for obvious reasons .
Hardly crime of the century here me thinks .
However i would gladly do the honour of chopping to some of the greedy thieving scumbags in this world. Like bankers,insurance directors, muggers,etc
Not to mention child molesters and the like  : )  

Sure did sound like it

[Murph1984]

Don't know if it was a joke or not but somebody on the 2+2 thread mentioned Jamie Sykes intended to loan him $50k  

[littlemissC]

GreekStein you either have terrible judgment or are the unluckiest guy walking with regards to friends in poker.

Blatch,Riverdave and now Railtard.

Run better imo.

I think it's a bit of both. I have been friendly with all three but wouldn't count them amongst my 'friends in poker' and I'm sure they wouldn't count me as the same.

If Hopkin, Boshi, Pie, Toby etc ever grim me though, guarantee I'll never touch another card again.

fml known you longer than all those clowns,lol guess that means you dont mind if i grim you 

[GreekStein]

GreekStein you either have terrible judgment or are the unluckiest guy walking with regards to friends in poker.

Blatch,Riverdave and now Railtard.

Run better imo.

I think it's a bit of both. I have been friendly with all three but wouldn't count them amongst my 'friends in poker' and I'm sure they wouldn't count me as the same.

If Hopkin, Boshi, Pie, Toby etc ever grim me though, guarantee I'll never touch another card again.

fml known you longer than all those clowns,lol guess that means you dont mind if i grim you 

The daughter of Apollo Creed couldn't grim

[Woodsey]

GreekStein you either have terrible judgment or are the unluckiest guy walking with regards to friends in poker.

Blatch,Riverdave and now Railtard.

Run better imo.

I think it's a bit of both. I have been friendly with all three but wouldn't count them amongst my 'friends in poker' and I'm sure they wouldn't count me as the same.

If Hopkin, Boshi, Pie, Toby etc ever grim me though, guarantee I'll never touch another card again.

fml known you longer than all those clowns,lol guess that means you dont mind if i grim you 

I reckon I could easily grim Cos for a monkey

[GreekStein]

GreekStein you either have terrible judgment or are the unluckiest guy walking with regards to friends in poker.

Blatch,Riverdave and now Railtard.

Run better imo.

I think it's a bit of both. I have been friendly with all three but wouldn't count them amongst my 'friends in poker' and I'm sure they wouldn't count me as the same.

If Hopkin, Boshi, Pie, Toby etc ever grim me though, guarantee I'll never touch another card again.

fml known you longer than all those clowns,lol guess that means you dont mind if i grim you 

I reckon I could easily grim Cos for a monkey

Yeah prob could

[Claw75]

As long as there are people around who will hero worship others simply because they like to throw their cash around and play the big I am, there will be those that play up to it to make them feel good about themselves, in several cases going to extreme measures not to shatter the illusion.  Seems to be a lot of this about over the last year or two, probably due, I would imagine, to the increase in the number of young players around who bink a decent score or two, having never learnt the true value of money by working hard for it.  I can't see many of these stories ending happily.  The hero worshippers will grow up and what will become of their former idols I don't know.  With poker being so mainstream now though I can't see it being a trend that's going to stop any time soon with new players coming of age (chronologically anyway) every day.

I have read that back and it sounds extremely patronising. not meant to, and certainly not implying that anything but a small minority of the young guys have this mindset, but i'm not great at articulating stuff sometimes.

[jambo22]

Apologies for the long post coming, but it's all thread worthy and may give people more of an understanding of Marc Wright / Railtard1.

Keith - there are several things in Marc's post that appear to be honest and several things that don't make sense so just take it with a lot of caution. There are also masses of entirely relevant things that are ommitted.

I'll try and highlight the things that I know of, some of them from personal experience, some through conversations with others.

There are also several things that are exaggerated to make Marc appear in a better light. (For example where he mentions we parted whilst I was a 'coupla K in makeup'). Marc knows full well my makeup wasn't a coupla K. It had just gone over $1k (Marc had made more than this in profit from me too fwiw) and I went up to DTD with Rookie to play the £300 + £150 at DTD. It was agreed with Marc that I would play these on makeup and he would ship me the money. Despite several calls, messages and conversations Marc still had not sent me the money after I'd busted the first comp. I eventually got this in full (obv late) but it was an absolute headache for me to repeatedly chase. After I busted the £150 Marc again didn't transfer me dollars, which he should have done, and had plenty of time to do prior to the event. I also used to bust his balls over this sort of stuff because I knew he never acted in the proper way. While his excuses would be 'too many tables - will do it after session etc' he was more than able to keep loading up $200-500+ super turbos yet couldn't load his cashier. Paying back money was always something he delayed at and was terrible at even when he had it. It confused myself and many others who knew him as to why.

I had decided that I was going to try and get out of makeup and end things with Marc as soon as I could after Mike Millar came to me and told me that Marc still owed him money from the Irish Open months before. At the time I considered myself mutual between the two and offered to mediate the problem. Marc told me his side and I listened. Meanwhile Mike provided me the log in to his own facebook account where I looked through message exchanges between the two. It seemed clear Marc owed Mike 65% of the action rather than the 35% he claimed. (Note: Marc had not even paid Mike the 35% he claimed he had before the event had started and still has not paid it).

When Marc had not transferred me money from the £150 I said, I don’t mind if you don’t send and we can end things now as Marc had also stated his intentions to me to get out of backing. (I have some of these msn conversations saved). Marc agreed and we parted ways.

I was aware that Marc had some issues with Jon Eames and Matt Perrins before I got involved with him although I don’t know the latter two well and accepted Marc’s story that it was all a misunderstanding whilst they were all drunk. Marc had mentioned to me that he’d changed and was trying to build a respectable reputation and put things like that behind him.

Separately, when not many other people would, Toby showed faith in Marc and began backing him. Whilst Toby was on a plane journey back from somewhere (maybe Australia?) Marc  won a like $40k in a $1k f/o that I’m pretty sure was Toby’s money, or would have been if Marc hadn’t cashed. Anyway, Toby lands and Marc claims he took the shot on his own money.

Marc also had a $14k bink (that was all makeup paid to Toby) and claims this account was then blocked by Stars on his DDfromDS account. I simply don’t believe this. I think Marc either lost that money or used it for himself. If he can provide emails to back up what he claims about this then fine, otherwise I simply don’t believe it. If the account was genuinely locked by stars, his actions in trying to resolve the matter were almost non-existant which is completely unacceptable considering he was meant to have $14k of a backer’s money in there.

Here is another post from someone marc had previous with. Many people will know Steve Ducharme (post 54).  http://www.pocketfives.com/f7/railtard1-ddfromds-scammer-595030/index2.html

So these stories of generosity (the one where he helped Trigg out, or where he bought Toby a watch) weren’t really acts of friendship and he used money I’d class as ‘dirty’ to be able to do this. After all, he needed to be able to keep some people on side, which in retrospect was probably part of  his reason for backing a big mouth like me who likes things to be as they should in the poker world. I also can’t understand how he lost from staking when he had so many huge binks through people he staked.

Finally, the reason Marc lives in Cornwall is because he screwed a lot of people over where he lived previously and moved away with his brother. He stole from his friends/family too some ago.

So, I’ve seen some good in Marc but his lying and devious ways have gone on for YEARS. Don’t be fooled by any of it.

Until he pays everyone back and gets professional help, I would urge people to bare this stuff in mind.

There may be a few tiny holes in this, but only because I’ve written it as quickly as possible during my lunch break but I’m happy to elaborate on other things and try and fill people in on any points.

Cos

(I’m from the internets)

Boy sounds an absolute tosser. Its unbelievable people are trying to defend him.

[Woodsey]

GreekStein you either have terrible judgment or are the unluckiest guy walking with regards to friends in poker.

Blatch,Riverdave and now Railtard.

Run better imo.

I think it's a bit of both. I have been friendly with all three but wouldn't count them amongst my 'friends in poker' and I'm sure they wouldn't count me as the same.

If Hopkin, Boshi, Pie, Toby etc ever grim me though, guarantee I'll never touch another card again.

fml known you longer than all those clowns,lol guess that means you dont mind if i grim you  

I reckon I could easily grim Cos for a monkey

Yeah prob could

If the truth be known I'd be too embarrassed to ask anyone to borrow money  (except my mum), let alone grim them. I'd rather just not play if I didn't have the money, I just don't get this grimming shit.............

[GreekStein]

GreekStein you either have terrible judgment or are the unluckiest guy walking with regards to friends in poker.

Blatch,Riverdave and now Railtard.

Run better imo.

I think it's a bit of both. I have been friendly with all three but wouldn't count them amongst my 'friends in poker' and I'm sure they wouldn't count me as the same.

If Hopkin, Boshi, Pie, Toby etc ever grim me though, guarantee I'll never touch another card again.

fml known you longer than all those clowns,lol guess that means you dont mind if i grim you 

I reckon I could easily grim Cos for a monkey

Yeah prob could

If the truth be known I'd be too embarrassed to ask anyone to borrow money  (except my mum), let alone grim them. I'd rather just not play if I didn't have the money...............

Yeh that's the same way a lot of people feel and rightly so.

There are a lot of people I'd still lend money to if they asked though, you being one of them. If any of the people within the group I'd now lend to grimmed me, I'd almost see it as money worth paying to know what they are really like.

[titaniumbean]

I'm from the internets.