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various US online poker media outlets
Pro poker player and co-creator of "The Simpsons", Sam Simon, claims that an unnamed "nosebleed player" has been scammed for more than $4 million by means of a hidden camera.
Simon, who created "The Simpsons" alongside Matt Groening and James L. Brooks in 1987, claims that a high stakes player has lost more $4 million after he fell victim to an elaborate scam.
According to Simon's account of the events, the unnamed player found a hidden camera installed above his computer after his house had been broken into, but at that point the damages had already been done.
"He found a camera stuck in his ceiling, looking at the computer screen," Simon told the Las Vegas Review Journal.
"He was losing, losing and losing," he added.
It was at this point the player, described by Simon as "someone the poker community knows very well" and "one of the biggest nosebleed players out there", realized that he had been the victim of a fraud.
The case has now been handed over to the authorities.
Simon also commented on Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's efforts to push through an Online Poker Act.
Reid's bill would legalize online poker in the States, but would also impose a 15 month blackout period, in which only licensed brick-and-mortar casinos would be allowed to run online operations, while sites like PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker would be left in the dark.
"I think it's the most obvious, corrupt, terrible thing I've ever heard of," Simon said.
"That is giving a monopoly to your friends. That is to the detriment of everyone who wants to have fun playing poker." he added.
Sam Simon himself is an accomplished tournament player with lifetime cashes of more than $334,000.
His biggest cash to date was of $33,445 and was won at the 2007 WSOP Main Event, where he finished in 329th position.
He no longer plays online.
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Re: Scam in the Homer of a High Profile Player....
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December 14, 2010, 05:56:00 PM »
Matusow springs to mind...v inventive scam....wiring in a live feed...lol
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i wonder who it is?
gus has lost alot online
lars lusak doesnt seem to have a winning session recently
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Townsend...........
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wow sick. Gotta be townsend.
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Isn't this just a version of the old Johnny Lodden story?
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Yea pretty sure this is Townsend, so so sick that something like this could be carried out, dont understand how it could be transmitted and how the camera stayed charged unless there was a socket in the loft or some sparks broke in and hard wired it in. Sick scam
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Surely the gulity parties are obvious through hand histories...and they have a start on tracking them down....
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Quote from: bhoywonder on December 14, 2010, 08:36:49 PM
Surely the gulity parties are obvious through hand histories
They would be if there was any truth in the story.
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WOW!!! Tht's sick!! Genius, but sick...
Hope the scammer had the decency to 'turn the other cheek' while the player was attending to their other online business
Eeeeeeeewwwwww
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December 15, 2010, 12:28:27 PM »
So, someone states that he knows someone this happened to (no name mentioned obviously) and immediately every forum states "this happens"? Have they all been taking journalism classes from Sky news or something?
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Quote from: TRIP5 on December 14, 2010, 09:16:35 PM
WOW!!! Tht's sick!! Genius, but sick...
Hope the scammer had the decency to 'turn the other cheek' while the player was attending to their
other online business
Eeeeeeeewwwwww
xx
Nice touch.
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Quote from: boldie on December 15, 2010, 12:28:27 PM
So, someone states that he knows someone this happened to (no name mentioned obviously) and immediately every forum states "this happens"? Have they all been taking journalism classes from Sky news or something?
It was on a poker forum, so it must be true. We even know the culprit. I mean, it can only be him, eh?
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Quote from: EvilPie on December 15, 2010, 01:56:49 PM
Quote from: TRIP5 on December 14, 2010, 09:16:35 PM
WOW!!! Tht's sick!! Genius, but sick...
Hope the scammer had the decency to 'turn the other cheek' while the player was attending to their
other online business
Eeeeeeeewwwwww
xx
Nice touch.
I thought so ;o)
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December 15, 2010, 06:01:51 PM »
Is the 'Homer' in the title a typo, reference to lord Floppy, or a pun that I'm not getting?
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