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In recent years the government has done everything in its powers to take away the freedoms and tax dollars of the American people. Poker railbirds talk about collusion at high stakes online poker tables all the time. They never cease to be convinced that there are cheaters in online poker, but mention government and corporation colluding to take tax dollars and you are labeled as a conspiracy theorist.

We are free to go to the casino and pay an extraordinary rake, but if we attempt to play online poker or play at home we are breaking the law? I went to Mountaineer race track in West Virginia and played some poker at their poker room that opened in last year or two. I paid about 20$ in gas to go there and back, plus food when I got there, paid tips to the dealer, and paid more than double what the online rake is. I looked at the table and it said West Virginia Lottery. I asked the dealer why that was there and she said like 40% of the rake goes to the state. OK, so the state gets half the money and uses it to help people in the state. That’s what we are supposed to believe but the problem is that I just don’t buy it. I pay taxes for real estate, school, income, sales, and a bunch of other crap, but I don’t see any improvements in the country I live in. Our school system is a joke, I still have to pay if I go to the hospital, and my country sends troops all over the world to grant other countries “FREEDOM”. So who is free? Me? I don’t really own my house, the bank does. If I had it paid off, I’d still have to pay $6k in taxes a year plus $10,000 in utilities to rip off utility monopolies. It is my belief that our taxes are not going to help the state, citizens, or cities that collect them (or at least 50% of the money). Not to mention I pay to send my son to private school instead of a public school.

I ask you to question these bailouts, budgets, taxes, school taxes, property taxes, and wage taxes. I ask you to question where this money is actually going and why. Why is it OK to fly to Las Vegas and get a $5,000 chip and place it on red and lose, but it’s not OK to play online poker in the privacy of our homes? Why is it OK to buy 1000 shares of ENE (ENRON), but not play online poker?

The shift in income is huge, so much that I saw Warren Buffet playing heads up poker with Uncle Sam for all the new tax money they are taking from us. They were playing 5 Mil/10mil at the Economy super high stakes tables at Full Tilt Poker!

Here are some pics from the heads up match:

Warren Bluffet VS Uncle Sam 5m 10m No limit holdem

Uncle Sam’s Sharkscope

JK

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A huge scandal on the 2+2 forums has surfaced recently, which involves respected members of the online community. 2+2 moderator, “Cornell Fiji”, whose real name is Steven Ware, has been accused of stealing $30,000 from a fellow veteran 2+2 poster named “Admo”. When Admo first spread the news on the forums, all of his topics were quickly deleted by Steven. This moderator abuse did not last long as word eventually spilled to other parts of the 2+2 forums, beyond Steve’s control. Neverwinpoker.com, another major online poker community, quickly picked up on this information and posted all the dirt on their front page, uncensored and unedited in response to the moderation of Admo’s original topics on 2+2.
The following is a private message from Steve admitting to moderator abuse:

The root of this drama started a few weeks ago around July 15, 2008, when Steven made a thread requesting to trade his cash for online poker money. Admo responded to this thread and a deal was eventually made between the two. After feeling a sense of trust and confidence, Admo decided to send first to Steve and initiate the trade. Admo transferred $30,000 from his Full Tilt Poker account to Steve’s FTP account, “TheMatadorKGB”. After this occurred, Steve was supposed to go to a local bank and deposit $30,000 into Admo’s bank account to finish the deal. Admo did not receive any money in his bank account and grew a little worried. When he tried to contact Steve, he received no reply from private message or text message for two days. Then after three days, Admo received a message from Steve: “well I’m sure you probably guessed what happened…” and it continued on to say that Steve had lost all $30K at the Bellagio in Bobby’s Room and would return to New Jersey to pay back Admo. Admo quickly demanded that Steve send back the funds on FTP, but Steve replied claimed he lost it all to a player named BoostedJ. It is later confirmed that this was a lie and Steve never lost any money to Boosted.
Admo reveals that Steve private messaged him with intentions to repay the lost funds with several options:
(i) Borrow from friends
(ii) Borrow from family
(iii) Sell everything he owns
(iv) Repay via advance from his upcoming book
(v) Repay in a month and a half when he can sell some stock
As of August 5, Admo claims to have not received a single cent from Steve, which prompted Admo to bring attention to this situation on 2+2. Admo has also threatened to file a lawsuit and involve the police in hopes of speeding up the repayment process. Admo has gone as far to create a website which will follow his adventures as he tries to collect his stolen money: stevenwareisathief Dot Com.
He also created a photo edited image poking fun of this scandal:

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Right now on Pocket 5’s and Two plus Two there is posts with evidence that there are Super Accounts that
someone at Absolute poker or an employee there was using to cheat. The accounts were “Super Accounts ” that could see everyone’s hands, IP, names and more! The data was sent to a player who complained to Absolute support and they accidentally sent him the data. He then gave it to his friends who did some serious investigating and data mined the player in question. The account then made a ton of money and dumped it in 200 400 games. The player who won it in the high stakes games was a new account, who then cashed out right away!

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It has come to my attention that there is a Poker “sweatshop” at work at Full Tilt poker. The story was originally posted at Two Plus Two. I have used my resources in Pittsburgh to disclose to me the person in charge of this ring. I cannot tell you that I viewed this in person so this is second hand information. The photo below has been verified!
I was told about this story one year ago but did not remember the guys name. I called a player from one of the rooms that I play in and had them remind me of the name.

The person in question is Charles Kuruzovich (aka full_tilting). Charles goes by “Chuck” in Pittsburgh poker rooms. One day his brother “Fast Eddie”(who is a poker dealer in underground rooms) was bragging about his brother “Chuck” in Johnstown who pays 6-8 people
to sit in a room and play on a system. He pays them $8.00/ hour. He has set rules for the “human bots” to abide by. Once they are in a situation with a big hand, they call the ring leader over to make a decision. Now keep in mind that I do not know for a fact that it is Charles Kuruzovich who is involved. He was the one pointed out in Two Plus Two. His screen name on pokerstars is Chuckk. I don’t see how this can be anyone else. How many people do you know that are heavily involved in poker that run “human bot” operations. I repeat that this is the alleged person. Further investigations must be done to find out the exact facts. I will email Full Tilt and ask some questions today. I do not know if this is cheating but in my opinion it is an unfair advantage. It might as well be cheating.

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