Originally Posted by
Fedor Holz
Hello 2+2 Community,
My name is Fedor Holz and after deliberate consideration with Hendrik and ‘BBVisbadforme’ I feel the necessity to share my recent dealings with Alex Dreyfuß and my thoughts on it with you.
On 3rd June 2016, Alex approached me and asked for 10,000$ cash in Vegas to trade for a euro bank transfer, stating that “he spend 50k$ [in the] last few days for [their] studio” now “reaching his daily limits”.
The same day I send him my bank details via e-mail and he responded with “Thanks will be proceed current next week”.
I was very busy in Vegas and didn’t do my accounting until end of July/beginning of August assuming that he wired me the money in euros when this message reached me on 28th July 2016:
"I just wanted to tell you, that I'm a bit late re: the transfer of 10k, as I spent a lot of resources last 6 weeks due to our vegas investment, and I'm in the middle of strategic/financing deal, which - if you allow me - to have few weeks more (end of august, early september) to process the Eur, bank transfer (with interest), would be highly appreciated. I apologizes for delay. Not my style, just Entrepreneur life. Hope it is fine for you."
I responded that “it’s okay, [but] I’d like to get it out of the way as soon as possible”.
I already didn’t feel comfortable with the situation but I had a lot of other stuff on my plate and didn’t spend too much time thinking about it until on 27th August 2016 in Barcelona I randomly find out that he also owes money to Hendrik for a similar timeframe. This is the point where I start to question my decision to give him the benefit of the doubt.
I send Alex a message demanding my money and he says he will put in a wire on 31st August.
I received 9,500€ worth in euros on 2nd September 2016.
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The reason why I post this story is not out of personal interest. I don’t have any reason to harm Alex Dreyfus nor do I in any way profit from posting this (quite the opposite).
The reason why I post this story is because I strongly care for poker and its community and how we get presented to the outside.
In my personal opinion in our two cases he knowingly mislead us to get a 3-months loan out of a declared trade without communicating it in any way for the first 7 weeks.
He represents poker to the outside, so he represents us as a community to the outside.
I think the above story is very questionable behaviour as a serious entrepreneur and a showing of missing integrity.
I really do hope that this was a single misstep.
Fedor