I want to make clear right now that I will be addressing the disparity with the hands posted/mentioned and will be addressing this replies to the backers only.
Before I start let me make it clear that I had 33% of the Grand Prix stake (ask Eso for confirmation), so I feel privileged to be in a position where I can have my questions answered.
This issue has just got way too far out of hand, but let it be clear that it is YOU that allowed yourself to get into this position. There have been many good points in this thread recently by myself and others that you have failed to address. Many attempts have been made to try and help you whilst going easy on some of the mistakes that you have been making.
I was paying serious attention to it as i didn't want to miss the opportunity, so there's a lot of details on the players. Again wish i could have done better for us
Oh the busto hand? JJ into A10 for about 11 bigs, shoved from middle position, ace on the turn...standard really
So to get over this silly business with the GP. You were paying serious attention so you didn't miss anything, then over the course of several days fail to get the bust out hand in this thread and only at the point of someone calling you out do you manage this:
Secondly, and again it's a show of my awful memory...I fucked the bust out hand up because, and I remember this clearly...when the JJ/A10 hand happened it was (as has been mentioned) Inbetween the pocket fours hand that was my bust out and it stuck in my memory more for the line "yeah this always fucking happens to me I swear to god". And as such it's stuck with me as the bust out. Again, wrong, again, stupid. Can't really do much about it, all I can do is apologise for it.
Apart from this been close to incomprehensible, I can make out the phrase “the pocket fours that was my bust out”, but I still don't really have any details. Also you couldn't remember it at the weekend but you remember it now? To be honest I'm not really that bothered that you went on tilt, it was £20, I've dealt with it. There are some more pressing concerns I have though. I know you have been keen to avoid this topic, but selling 90-100% of yourself is literally the most stupid thing I've ever heard of. Pleno took a long time explaining to you how to calculate your hourly a while, I read it, and it was very informative. If I may be so bold, I would like to quote you from earlier:
“Tempted to sell the next fifty events so that I sell all 100% and keep nothing...really fucking tempted”
I'm sure backers will be willing to throw their money at you but let's just take a step back and think of this from your point of view. Out of spite, you're willing to play poker for a year for no potential return? Seems like a smart move. I mean, at least you can't lose your own money. Just waste your own time and the money of hard working people. Of course, you have a spreadsheet for 150 live games that PROVES you're a winning player, assuming that the spreadsheet is more accurate than your HH reports. We must also take into account the largest sample of games we have available:
Peter Thorpe (PokerStars) 1,319 -$1.91 $5.31 -16.9% -$2,523 52
I'm assuming your regular investors have seen this graph of your online results?
Running away from this will not provide you with a solution, and if you had just been honest with people from the start, instead of throwing your toys out the pram like an infant, this could have been sorted out in a few posts and would have gone no further. I fail to believe that you genuinely believe that you're the victim in all of this. I have never felt the need in my entire life to call someone out like this, but your actions are completely unacceptable. I can accept that people mistakes, whatever, shit happens. But you have lied time and time again but this time have been caught out. You said that you have never lied to anyone about HH’s with regards to staking, so maybe you just got unlucky and the first time you made a mistake you got found out.
What was the busto hand, if you don't mind me asking?
This question posted 4 days ago wasn't a happy accident. I really wished you could have just owned up to it in the first instance. I'm sorry if this post feels like it has been harsh, but people have tried in several different ways to get through to you and you have just outright ignored them in some cases. Blondes would love to see improve and make a real go of been a professional, myself included, but whilst you continue to operate like this you will not gain any respect from other members of the community.
Further, when it comes to needing staking as professional, you are going to need a lot of money and a lot of understanding. You will only get that kind of support from the poker community I urge you address these issues before anything is damaged beyond repair.
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