Brad Booth

[Amatay]

Just copied and pasted this from a poster on the Raise The River forum. Its not old news is it?




If this has already been posted, apologies and lock er up.

Recently a thread on 2+2 surfaced from long time respected poster Doug WCGryder in regards to Brad Booth stealing $28,000 from him. The thread can be seen here http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/29/ne ... e-1206724/

Today Brad Booth responded on 2+2 with this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zbNieYoaos

My opinion on the matter is its very clear BB has some gambling and drinking issues and he let both get the better of him. To go from fame to scum is somewhat shocking yet not awfully surprising in the poker world these days. How someone can get taken for 1 million dollars from a superuser, to be scammed like that and to know how it feels and turn around and do it to others sort of blows me away.

From the video he obviously feels terrible and its good to see he has conscience. Hopefully he does something somewhow to repay people back.

The pokerworld sure has taken a dark turn over the last couple of years. It bothers me because he is from the same country as myself (Canada) and he has always been patriotic in the poker world. Trying as hard as he can to represent Canada so this one hits a little closer to home.

[pleno1]

Another guy uninterested in bitb... All your poker interest in there guys

[Amatay]

Another guy uninterested in bitb... All your poker interest in there guys

Whats that?

[mondatoo]

Seems like an absolutely terrible idea to play 100k worth of events at WSOP right now, looks like a broken man.

He seems like a pretty genuine guy who fucked up, gl to him getting sorted.

[Horneris]

I feel sorry for Brad

[GreekStein]

Wasn't Brad in hundreds of K's worth of debt and then spent the last few years (maybe the 4 years he's referring to) grinding his way out of it to pay everyone back, which he did afaik?

respect to him for posting that though. pretty sure wcgrider will get his money eventually

[titaniumbean]

bit of an intense watch.

hope he binks and pays it all back tbh.

[Royal Flush]

I've become quite good friends with Brad over the last 6 months and it was horrible watching that video. The guy has a lot of problems and I hope he gets it sorted, spoke to him earlier and it's the first time I've ever seen him come across as anything but full of life. He's been working so hard at getting out of his hole it's so tilting that he fell victim to the pit. Kudos to him for that video lets hope he gets the lot during the wsop

[DaveShoelace]

I've become quite good friends with Brad over the last 6 months and it was horrible watching that video. The guy has a lot of problems and I hope he gets it sorted, spoke to him earlier and it's the first time I've ever seen him come across as anything but full of life. He's been working so hard at getting out of his hole it's so tilting that he fell victim to the pit. Kudos to him for that video lets hope he gets the lot during the wsop

Long term that is surely the worst thing that could happen?

The guy clearly needs help, I have never been a fan of letting someone with a gambling problem of such severity attempt to play their way out of trouble. I appreciate that this is his job, but what sort of message will that tell the demons inside of him? That everything will be ok as long as he gambles long enough.

He should take the series off, sort himself out, and if he still feels like he can be a professional poker on the other side of that, then he should start grinding the money back for people. Nothing good is likely to come from him playing the series this year, especially because a bunch of pissed of 2+2 types will likely give him shit at some point.

[JK]

Massive respect to him for what hes done in response to this. Obviously what hes done is wrong, but hes holding his hands up and admitting responsibility for his actions and trying to make it right

[MANTIS01]

Yeah, massive respect. Stealing money from your friends and pissing it all away in the pit is nothing. What deserves massive respect in this life is a you tube vid with sniffing. Proper stand up guy obv. The plan is to carry on gambling to pay back and no mention about getting a job. Which is funny really because in the interview room if ur honest about this poker stuff they will lap it up.

[Woodsey]

Yeah, massive respect. Stealing money from your friends and pissing it all away in the pit is nothing. What deserves massive respect in this life is a you tube vid with sniffing. Proper stand up guy obv. The plan is to carry on gambling to pay back and no mention about getting a job. Which is funny really because in the interview room if ur honest about this poker stuff they will lap it up.

Lol

[pleno1]

maybe I'm misunderstood but hasn't he been grimming people for the last 4 years ("have a huge list of people i owe money to") and only made the video because of the huge thread that started on 2p2. If there was no thread there would be no video right?

[Acidmouse]

He just needs to resolve his issues while making decent money playing poker, very hard to do without professional help.

[AlunB]

I only glanced at the video yesterday, and presumed someone had found a sex tape of him.