Public Letter to Neal Ross
Saw a pretty lousy post on rec.gambling.poker from an old disgruntled pokerspot player. There are a lot of them out there, but this one gets under my skin.
I don't take his threats seriously. What really bothers me, though, is that shit escalates... especially when you get a mob of hungry flamers that is RGP. Neal Ross probably more than anyone has always been very public with our talks in what I assume is an effort to light a fire under my ass. I'm sometimes flaky and oftentimes slow... personal flaws that I will readily admit and am constantly working on, with the help of my cool-as-all-hell girlfriend. She didn't do anything to him... has absolutely NOTHING to do with my history with neal. Yet somehow she ends up in the post. I don't like that shit.
So here's the email I sent to Mr. Ross, which I too will make public :
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Neal,
Saw the post on RGP. You're right that I've been slow in following up on this, and I'm sorry about that. But come on, man... it's been four years. This shit is coming out of my bankroll, which is pretty low anyway... not to mention the fact that I'm trying to juggle (1) getting a new company off the ground and not screwing it up like I did the first one, and (2) trying to keep myself afloat by playing poker in my spare time. Throw in way too much travelling and you got the reason it's taken me a little longer than I thought to get this shit in order.
About the post on RGP... say all you want about me. The next time you threaten physical harm onmy girlfriend, family, or friends then you're going on my block list (and right at the bottom of my priority list). And also you'd probably do good to remember that if something ever DID happen to me, well you've made it pretty public that you've taken steps to make it happen.
From my records you had $2173 in your pokerspot account when the site closed. That took me awhile to figure out. It's going to take me even longer to go through the old checks and credit card records to see how much of the $4284 that you cashed out in your pokerspot history actually made it into your hands, which if any were bounced, and what if anything was charged back to your credit cards. Then finally I have to figure out how much of my bankroll I can afford to give you without risking going broke and having to play my way back at the .50/1 tables. This isn't exactly a simple process. It's not exactly like pokerspot was a good model for organization.
For your information I HAVE paid players back. And I've also started paying at least a little bit to players that are owed more than I can afford to settle up... the reason you haven't heard about it is because I haven't required them to do anything except take the money. If you think it's a lie, go ask MS Sunshine if she's gotten anything out of me. And MS didn't even have to physically threaten me to get it.
The post was uncalled for. I'd never ask you to take anything back... but at least take a chill pill. Life's too short to fill it with negativity.
Happy New Year,
Dutch
I don't take his threats seriously. What really bothers me, though, is that shit escalates... especially when you get a mob of hungry flamers that is RGP. Neal Ross probably more than anyone has always been very public with our talks in what I assume is an effort to light a fire under my ass. I'm sometimes flaky and oftentimes slow... personal flaws that I will readily admit and am constantly working on, with the help of my cool-as-all-hell girlfriend. She didn't do anything to him... has absolutely NOTHING to do with my history with neal. Yet somehow she ends up in the post. I don't like that shit.
So here's the email I sent to Mr. Ross, which I too will make public :
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Neal,
Saw the post on RGP. You're right that I've been slow in following up on this, and I'm sorry about that. But come on, man... it's been four years. This shit is coming out of my bankroll, which is pretty low anyway... not to mention the fact that I'm trying to juggle (1) getting a new company off the ground and not screwing it up like I did the first one, and (2) trying to keep myself afloat by playing poker in my spare time. Throw in way too much travelling and you got the reason it's taken me a little longer than I thought to get this shit in order.
About the post on RGP... say all you want about me. The next time you threaten physical harm onmy girlfriend, family, or friends then you're going on my block list (and right at the bottom of my priority list). And also you'd probably do good to remember that if something ever DID happen to me, well you've made it pretty public that you've taken steps to make it happen.
From my records you had $2173 in your pokerspot account when the site closed. That took me awhile to figure out. It's going to take me even longer to go through the old checks and credit card records to see how much of the $4284 that you cashed out in your pokerspot history actually made it into your hands, which if any were bounced, and what if anything was charged back to your credit cards. Then finally I have to figure out how much of my bankroll I can afford to give you without risking going broke and having to play my way back at the .50/1 tables. This isn't exactly a simple process. It's not exactly like pokerspot was a good model for organization.
For your information I HAVE paid players back. And I've also started paying at least a little bit to players that are owed more than I can afford to settle up... the reason you haven't heard about it is because I haven't required them to do anything except take the money. If you think it's a lie, go ask MS Sunshine if she's gotten anything out of me. And MS didn't even have to physically threaten me to get it.
The post was uncalled for. I'd never ask you to take anything back... but at least take a chill pill. Life's too short to fill it with negativity.
Happy New Year,
Dutch
posted by Dutch Boyd at
05:50
2 Comments:
Nice to see your being the bigger man Dutch, I've been reading this blog for the past month or so and finally decided to sign up so I could post comments
Dutch, pay the people back, and shut up. The pity party crap is getting very, very old.
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