I know my silence in regards to my departure from VPR as well as my silence regarding Jasep's BAP have left many wondering what was going on. I have received many messages via PM and other media networks and I apologize for the many I did not respond to. The reason for my silence up until now was because before I posted my thoughts and information I obtained, I had to be 100% without a doubt that I was correct. After consulting with Mark, Pikachar, Kevin, Joe U, and others and considering the dealings I personally had with Johnny, there is not a doubt in my mind about any of the factual information detailed in the this post.
I am battling through some nasty stomach bug at the moment. I haven't eaten much over the last 48 hours so I apologize in advance for grammatical errors and the fact this post may not be as cohesive as I had planned. The urgency of me posting this now is due to the fact I received a text at 530am pst alerting me to the fact that Jasep is actively trying to find investor i.e. have people send him money, for percentages of VPR, a completely worthless website.
Although there is many different parts to this story, I will begin with what I feel is the most important to the community and what has been debated now for weeks.
MY DEALINGS WITH JASEP AND THE BAP
Jasep, Kevin (the 3rd host from filthy limper radio) and myself starting making wagers with each other the last few months of 2012. With Kevin and I, it was only NFL football. With Johnny and I, it was mainly Chinese poker. I ended up owing Kevin 1k, which was the stop loss the 3 of us agreed to, and Johnny ended up losing $600 to me. I immediately paid Kevin through BAC. Johnny decided to call it a loss at $600 and we stopped betting. This also coincided with Johnny telling me for the first time he was having financial problems. I obviously would not have been wagering with him had I known the circumstances. Within a few days of us ceasing to wager, Johnny posted his BAP thread. I felt bad because I had no idea how dire his financial situation was, I had a very good year overall, so I decided to do something I never do. I told him to put the $600 he owed me into the stake. I then bought 9 more shares at $50 a pop so his BAP would sell out. He expressed gratitude and I thought it would avoid an embarrassing situation, in that he had no means to pay me. I had agreed to send him the $450 remaining dollars on the 30th or 31st of the month, as he was not playing until January 2nd.
Two weeks before he was set to begin playing his BAP, he texted me asking me for the $450 that day. This obviously surprised me. I asked him why he needed it over two weeks before he was due to play and he responded that he felt that him and his gf were on the outs (he had given me her BAC account to send the money to) and he was going to split once he got the money from her. This was really the beginning of the end for me. I just didn't believe him. After conferring with Mark, I told Johnny not to worry. I would send him the $ on paypal on the 30th or 31st. I didnt hear back from Johnny. Radio was on hiatus. It became apparent to me that he was pissed that I wouldn't send him the remaining shares I had purchased before the date I said I would. He sent me a few texts at the end of the month asking for the money, but by that time other things (will be detailed in this post) had come to my attention that gave me reason not to trust him, or his BAP. I told myself that at worst I was going to lose $600.
I was dismayed after the first week of the BAP when Johnny was up hundreds of dollars (don't know exact figure) and decided to go against his promise of paying backers every Thursday after radio. He missed a scheduled day that week and posted on Thursday he would send dividends out the following day. The next day (and I predicted this privately to China on the phone) he lost everything he made all week and was up $3, hence no dividends. I didn't text or contact Johnny in regards to how that was handled.
The following week, he claimed a profit for the week. He posted that investors would receive there divends on friday. I never received mine. I texted him late that night asking why I had yet to receive a payment. He said he had forgot and I would be sent it shortly. When I woke up the next morning a paypal ECHECK had been sent to me for roughly $37. I found this odd because I had never received an echeck in other paypal transactions with him prior and it stated it would take 3-5 days to clear. I didnt text Johnny on regards to this. Roughly 4-5 days later I got an email from paypal saying the echeck had bounced due to insufficient funds. I immediately texted Johnny. He replied by saying he had sent me an email earlier regarding this. He claimed via text that he had made a "clerical error" and accidentally sent my payment and the payment for two others to an inactive bank account. I checked my email and my spam box, yet could find no email. He later sent me a blurry screen shot of what looked like an email but I could not totally read it.
He told me he would paypal me the $37 from a week ago right now. That day went by and I didn't receive a payment. The next day went by and I didn't receive a payment. I finally texted him late on day 2 (roughly 12:30am pst) and told him I didn't appreciate being ignored and treated this way and that I wanted out of the stake. I told him to keep the $37 I had still yet to receive and should send me the $600 he owed me. He immediately sent me $37 (directly, no via echeck) and told me he would have the $600 for me no later than Tuesday January 29th at 6pm Vegas time. He explained that he need the 4 days (my request was made late Thursday night) to get money online.
On Tuesday January 29th at approximately 4:30 pm pst, I received this text.
The next day I texted him asking him if he was going to honor his word. He responded that he was at the police station (more on this later) and would send me $ within the hour. I ended up receiving the $600 later that day (wed the 30th) but LOL it was in the form of an echeck that would take 3-5 days to clear. I immediately texted Johnny asking him why he had me wait 5 days under the pretense that I was waiting for him to get money in the bank, only to send me an echeck. He never responded. I texted him again. No response. I knew the answer of course. To buy time. I have no expectation of this echeck clearing either next week.
Yesterday Wednesday Jan 30th, Kevin contacted me. He told me that JoeU (and investor and supporter of VPR) had told Johnny he was going to swing by Mohegan Sun and sweat him, after Johnny had indicated he would be playing there today. A short time after Johnny heard that JoeU was coming down to Mohegan, he texted him telling him not to. That he wasn't going to be playing today after all. That a threat of violence had been made against him. He then posted this statement on VPR.
***VERY IMPORTANT***
At 12:48 I received a very serious, very scary threat.. The threat contained information about my family, my girlfriend and the car I drove yesterday that is not in my name. The threat also claimed to have knowledge of where I park my car and there was a direct expression of violence. A family member received the same threat about a minute apart. We have both been in contact with the police and I have showed this to one of my investors who I trust the most with personal info and have known the longest. I am pulling the plug on all of this bullshit and taking the advice of my family and those close to me in real life.
No poker forum is worth any of this.
Every investor has $51.75 per share coming to them, over the next couple days I will coordinate 2 friends to accompany me to cash in my chips and to get all money in the bank and then online. I will then send out all shares accordingly. Everyone will receive all of their money within 7 days from today. Once every investor has received their refund I am going to step down from this website as well and close up shop. Maybe I am overreacting, and it is most likely some lunatic with a warped sense of humor, but my family/girlfriend who have been following this story are now genuinely scared and feel like I need to act on it.
I spoke with JoeU on the phone today and he confirmed everything Kevin had told me about the events that has just transpired.
WHO REALLY OWNS VPR???
I was contacted by Pikachar recently. He informed me of an agreement he had with Johnny, that Mark or myself knew nothing of. Before the inception of VPR, pikachar had sent Johnny a payment of $6,000 to purchase a 20% ownership role of filthy limper radio, that carried over into an ownership role on VPR! Pikichar will come into this thread and fill in the details because up until recently Mark and I had no idea of any arrangement/ownership stake besides Jasep/China and myself.
The irony in this is that during an episode of filthy limper radio a user in the chat indicated some sort of problem with the site. Pikachar responded my saying he would log into VPR's server and address it. Both China and I caught this. We waited a while and eventually China sent Johnny an email asking among other things what pikachars role was with VPR and why he had direct server access.
Johnny responded to Mark and I stating that Pikachar "had no affiliation with us"
The arrangement that Mark and I thought we were under is that we each owned 33.3%, which one exception. Johnny had informed Mark and I since day one and several times throughout the course of our partnership that Tim Byrd, the former host of filthy limper radio and part owner, did not want Johnny to buy him out when we started VPR so Johnny agreed to give Tim half of his 33.3%. I spoke with a close friend of Johnny's and Tim's, Kevin Wright regarding this and he stated adamantly that there was never any agreement with Tim involving a ownership role of VPR and Johnny was lying. Kevin also shockingly told me that Johnny had offered him a 20% ownership stake in filthylimper radio, which again was unknown for the entirety of our partnership to Mark or myself.
I was recently informed and it was confirmed that VPR has been using a server that costs $4.99 a month after Johnny had led both Mark and I to believe we were using a higher quality/higher cost server. In reality ALL RADIO BROADCASTS WERE BEING DONE THROUGH PIKICHARS SITE
We were under the impression we were paying close to $100 a month, when in actuality we were paying $4.95! Mark will go into more detail about this. This made a lot of sense considering Mark was suppose to handle the finances of VPR (per our agreement from day 1) and he was repeatedly rebuked or offered an excuse when he tried to gain access to such. It's obvious now the reason was so we would not know what are actual true monthly costs were.
China also was tricked into sending $ to Jasep at the spur of the moment when Jasep texted him saying that a programmer who works for Comedy Centrals website is willing to work on ours but he can only do it today and I need the money ASAP. Suffice to say, the work was never done. China can expand on this.
There a ton of little lies China and I caught him in during the last few months of our partnership. I will gladly go into details later or China feel free. I have been typing this for 2 + hours now and I need to rest. There certainly will be more added my this later.
There two more subjects I feel I need to address before I go.
People may ask, why would you get into a business with someone you didnt know/why didnt you stop the first time there was dishonesty.... The simple answer was at the time we felt there was no risk. China and I from the START did this only for fun and for the enjoyment of the community. Money was never made and we knew that going into it. We both feel sick to our stomachs that possibly our credibility as well as our participation with VPR enabled Jasep to harm and steal from the community.
Lastly, due to all these recent developments, myself, Mark and others have been asked about money that was handled through our 22q marathon podcast, which was one of the proudest things I ever did in my life. I was informed that out of the roughly $6500 raised, $3500 went directly to 22q and the remaining 3k was handled and sent to Jasep, who had agreed to send that amount to 22q directly. Due to all that has gone one and to end speculation regarding this, Jasep please post publically a picture of the check that was sent to 22q.
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