A valuable lesson

After my big win on Bugsys, a staff member on another forum asked me to transfer $10 to him to seed his bankroll on Bugsys, and he'd pay me back. I did.

I received message reply notifications in my email for new messages in my threads on that forum several times a day. I also received daily private messages from that staff member keeping me up to date on his bankroll's progress. He kept saying he was at $20 and would pay me back once he hit $30.

Yesterday, my bankroll expired, and I am 2 player points away from collecting $10 of my deposit bonus. I posted this fact on the other forum. Not a peep from anyone there since then. The silence is highly unusual, but I guess not unexpected.

Mike

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In the land of the blind, the one-eyed King flops a boat.

Eat, breathe, and sleep poker, but pee and poo something else.

personally i never lend money to folks I havent seen in real life. I think thats the best way to do it. It is odd that it was staff involved in this. I would contact the site owner and it is reasonably likely that there will be one less staff member by the end of it.

this happened to me on another forum i was heavily involved with but it was not $10 it was $200 money i had worked hard to win i wont name names but i trusted this person as we had become good friends and i had lent him up to $500 before and had always been paid back well i learned my lesson this time i will never lend money again

Ben, the staff member is a FTF buddy of the owner. Likely I'd just be deleted as a member...not that I'll ever go back there again.

Mike

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In the land of the blind, the one-eyed King flops a boat.

Eat, breathe, and sleep poker, but pee and poo something else.

Wow, the guy paid me back! I won't be quite so quick to judge next time.

Mike

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In the land of the blind, the one-eyed King flops a boat.

Eat, breathe, and sleep poker, but pee and poo something else.

There is a very small group of players I would transfer money too (all members of the same poker league). Anyone else - nope

I'm glad you got your money back

The guy was part of a group on CardCrusade that spent a lot of time in conversation before the site closed. We had played against each other bunches of times and talked for hours and hours. I just thought money had ruined what was becoming a friendship.

On another site, while playing freerolls, I kept running into this relatively large depositor and chatting with him. Without me asking first, he offered to transfer $3 to me provided I eventually paid him back $5. I thought about it and agreed. So we entered a 50-cent rebuy where I knocked him down to zero and caused him to rebuy six times. I did pay him back, but he didn't quite make the profit he expected.

Mike

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In the land of the blind, the one-eyed King flops a boat.

Eat, breathe, and sleep poker, but pee and poo something else.