PROJEKT:SEP **SCAM** (Rolled: A Jasep Saga)

[zealanddonk]

Has it been confirmed that Jasep's birth name was either Juan SEPULVEDA or Juan Estola?

[BetCheckBet]

It looks like his resume was not completely blank. I think Jasep or someone he is close with was involved here:

I was looking around and found Jasep owned a site called "Feast or Famine RI." Seems pretty appropriate.
http://whois.polodomains.com/domain/...Yhlf_info.html

It looks like that was website for 3 restaurants that Jasep was referencing. It looks like they all went out of business. It says in a review all the places were owned by one family. One of the main complaints in the reviews was that the management was never around and the places went down hill. Maybe they let Jasep manage them and he spent more time in the Casino or bed than at the restaurants.
http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/463362
http://www.yelp.com/biz/feast-or-famine-warren
http://www.tripadvisor.com/Restauran...de_Island.html

Picture of the Cranston location:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Fe...Warren,_RI.jpg

"Feast or Famine - 3 RI locations (Cranston - Warren - N.Providence) and the best wood grilled pizza you've ever had! Other great, affordable fare too!"
http://www.tvmaitred.com/tvm_features.asp?eID=41

Actually, your theory about the restaurants is a good one.

A lot of times, family restaurants attempt to give jobs to the "black sheep" of the family, who can't get decent employment anywhere else.

This unfortunately has the frequent result of running these businesses into the ground.

There is actually a local restaurant around me that has that exact problem. It's owned by a family that seems decent, but the family member tasked with day-to-day management is terrible, and has zero customer service skills. She actually yells at employees in front of all of the customers, and has gotten into loud arguments with customers, as well. Many of the family members want to get rid of her, but she's the daughter of a large percentage owner, so they can't. I stopped going there as a result, and there are tons of reviews on Yelp bashing that woman.

I am guessing that Jasep was involved in running these restaurants and neglected them, and that was that.

Probably went down like this



or this

[Baron Von Strucker]

It looks like I'm 40 pages behind on this thread. I've been busy so it looks like I have a lot of reading to do.

The scumbag whose nuts you have been juggling with your toncils turned out to be a thief after all. Maybe you won't send money to people you have never met before? Doubt it. If you were dumb enough to send this fat fuck $ you have shit for brains and that is something that will never change.

Sep came on these forums full on and many........most of the members adopted him as a trusted member and any one who questioned his integrity was assaulted. druff allowed his bap's and pimping his agenda at will, so much that I believe druff may in some way have vouched for him maby not directly but after the templar fuck up which was also very LOL, sep continued to make prop bets and bap's without druff intervening.
So why would the bap's investors question ther IMO very small investment. How would they know? I would say duediligence was sufficient just from his presence as a seemingly trusted member. Good thing it wasn't a 10k bap

[Iamdlloyd]

I read the whole Drexel poor me thing where all he cares about is getting everyone else their money back. It's just hard for me to believe hes so distraught over this shit but has a girl fly out by him and then never pick her up and tell the story like its a joke. Drexel is far from a saint that only cares about the community. He knew Jasep needed stake money to have any chance of recovering the money he was owed. Did Drexel post in the bap thread that he confirmed the pieces he bought? I dont think he did because he didnt want his name on the shit because he knew the shit was not on the up n up. I could be wrong about the last part someone can correct me if thats the case.

How many things have to go down involving Drexel before we start looking at him?

I have been listening to Drex from the DD days, now to PFA and communicate with him via Twitter now and then...As much as I don't agree with Shady J on the above post, Shady J does bring some concerns to light....

From Drex's' 'poor me' post it was interesting to read the happenings that existed within the 'VPR owners' relationship.. Those issues now help the poker community better understand Drex's absence on VPR radio since the beginning of the year......However.....

There is something to be said with what Druff spoke to previously on the radio...that scammers always don't want the conflicting issues spoken about or brought to light...so their (scamming) behaviour will not be out in the open to be scrutinized by the public...

So after Jsep 'happenings' were brought out in the light, scrutinized, analyzed and deduced in detail...Now on Jan.31st, since the beginning of the year, we hear Drexel's side of things in detail...WHY....

Why did it take so long, Why did it take the poker community to deduce the issues, Why did it take people taking exception and being pissed off with the 'criminal' activity taking place before Drexel's account of Jsep's skeptical activity was then sited to the poker community??

The poker community can understand Drexel's absence from VPR radio since the beginning of the year based on his vacation and recent happenings. But why the absence to PFA radio....Absence from PFA to the point that Druff was considering cancelling radio???

Although I believe Drex 100% of his detail of accounts with Jsep, and I believe he is one of the injured parties...

There is something to think about going forward...If shady sh@# is going down around you, or/and with your friends....Speak out Immediately...If you are 'duped' and you are the innocent party, then behave like the innocent party right away. No one will ever 'wrong' you for bringing 'shady' or Scammer behaviour to light (As per Druff)

Because when the criminal activity is only detailed and outlined 'After the fact' you leave reason to 'PAUSE'..And as Much as I believe Drex' 100%, I understand where Shady J's concern is coming from....

[ShadyJ]

Hockey Guy first off is a baller, so Im pretty sure getting rolled isnt the end of the world for him. Plus why keep repeating what everyone has already said. Your not their parent who knows maybe HG invested in other people he didnt know and made alot of money. People worry about yourselves if you didnt invest then pat your self on the back your brilliant.

The guy went out of his way to make sure everyone knew how legitimate and trustworthy Juan was. He has a lot of posts on this site so others who gave Juan $ may have trusted his judgement(I don't feel bad for them). Even when several issues with this whole situation began to be questioned, his ignorance prevailed and he kept making excuses and sticking by Juan's side.

So he was wrong big deal. I considered Johnny trustworthy just from the dealings I had with him, but I didnt ever listen to his radio show and know him like others did. We judge people on how they were with us, and for the most part the guy did what he said he was going to do. He went out of the way to pay me back money I had coming. That kind of shit builds trust with people.

[bukowski72]

From some local Blog:

Man shot and killed this morning at Club Pulse

PROVIDENCE — A club with a history of violence was the scene of the city’s 11th homicide early Christmas morning.

Just after 1:30 this morning shots were fired inside Club Pulse, killing one person and injuring two others, according to police.

The police are not yet releasing the names of the deceased or the other victims, saying they are waiting to notify relatives. No arrests have been made.

-- Scott Mayerowitz, Journal staff writer

Club Pulse, at 86 Crary St., just north of Rhode Island Hospital, has been the scene of several violent outbreaks in recent years.

Arguing in the past for the club’s closure, the police have said its clientele has a “propensity for violence.”

Maj. Paul Fitzgerald, head of the uniform division, told the city’s Board of Licenses in March of 2005 that “if the club continues to stay open, we will continues to have shootings, we will continues to have incidents there.”

Those comments came after an incident that month where someone fired six shots toward a small group standing outside the entrance. The group included three police officers called to the scene to help deal with a disturbance.

The South Providence nightclub was closed but only for two weeks and not because of the violence but because the fire alarm and sprinkler systems were not in compliance with state law. The Board of Licenses ultimately decided that the link between the shooting and the club was too tenuous to blame the owner.

However, after another breakout of violence in November 2005, the board did take action against the club. In March of this year, the board fined the club $1,500 for failing to prevent violence when a large fight began on the dance floor. The club’s security removed the combatants but the police said they were then forced to disperse a group that resumed fighting in the parking lot.

The club, which can hold up to 450 patrons, has been required in the past to hire six police officers on Fridays and three officers on Saturday and Sunday nights. It is owned by Alex Tomasso, who also owns Bar One in Providence and Feast of Famine, a chain of restaurants.

Tomasso has owned several Providence nightclubs, including Sanctuary, which was closed by the city in March 2004 by after violent incidents including a fatal shooting and another shooting months later in the club’s parking lot.

The victim of this morning’s shooting at Club Pulse was pronounced dead at Rhode Island Hospital. The other two victims were in stable condition this morning, according to police.

Posted by Peter Phipps at 12:05 PM | Comment

http://www.beloblog.com/ProJo_Blogs/...hives/2006/12/

[bukowski72]

Inspection Scores
FEAST OR FAMINE
http://food.ri.digitalhealthdepartme...er=F&id=244260

xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

"Best and easiest choice in ages
Hmmm, lemme see, don't tell me. Banquet table groaning with bounty? Or starvation? Uh - feast! FEAST OR FAMINE has come up with the best subliminally effective name since Oklahoma! Subtle subtext: eat hearty - you do not live in Bangladesh. To be fair, chef/proprietor David Sepulveda's menu explanation is: "When it comes to all aspects of food, whether cooking or eating, I think it should be done right, or not done at all. Hence our name." (A bank called Richer or Poorer might be even more successful.) By the way, the food here is quite good, if you can get over the guilt trip. Try their take on the current trend in eggplant rotellini: chèvre-filled, two-tone sauce topping thin eggplant slices not prepped in advance as at most places but fried up to order.
495 Main Street, Warren | 401.289.0422"
http://www.providencephoenix.com/sup...est05/food.asp

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More Reviews and talk of how the place went downhill:
http://www.mojopages.com/biz/feast-o.../02885/8220987

[ShadyJ]

How many things have to go down involving Drexel before we start looking at him?

I have been listening to Drex from the DD days, now to PFA and communicate with him via Twitter now and then...As much as I don't agree with Shady J on the above post, Shady J does bring some concerns to light....

From Drex's' 'poor me' post it was interesting to read the happenings that existed within the 'VPR owners' relationship.. Those issues now help the poker community better understand Drex's absence on VPR radio since the beginning of the year......However.....

There is something to be said with what Druff spoke to previously on the radio...that scammers always don't want the conflicting issues spoken about or brought to light...so their (scamming) behaviour will not be out in the open to be scrutinized by the public...

So after Jsep 'happenings' were brought out in the light, scrutinized, analyzed and deduced in detail...Now on Jan.31st, since the beginning of the year, we hear Drexel's side of things in detail...WHY....

Why did it take so long, Why did it take the poker community to deduce the issues, Why did it take people taking exception and being pissed off with the 'criminal' activity taking place before Drexel's account of Jsep's skeptical activity was then sited to the poker community??

The poker community can understand Drexel's absence from VPR radio since the beginning of the year based on his vacation and recent happenings. But why the absence to PFA radio....Absence from PFA to the point that Druff was considering cancelling radio???

Although I believe Drex 100% of his detail of accounts with Jsep, and I believe he is one of the injured parties...

There is something to think about going forward...If shady sh@# is going down around you, or/and with your friends....Speak out Immediately...If you are 'duped' and you are the innocent party, then behave like the innocent party right away. No one will ever 'wrong' you for bringing 'shady' or Scammer behaviour to light (As per Druff)

Because when the criminal activity is only detailed and outlined 'After the fact' you leave reason to 'PAUSE'..And as Much as I believe Drex' 100%, I understand where Shady J's concern is coming from....

I like Drexel hes great on radio, but he seems to be the common denominator in every issue, and always plays the poor me card. Maybe it is always someone else and hes not the problem, but everytime shit goes down hes involved and he always comes out as the victim. We all knew he visously atacked Druff but we wanted them to reconcile for radio.

[ShadyJ]

You know when all this shit went down Johnny wanted to pull out the stroke card, but thanks to the Templar he had to go with the internet geeks are threatening me card which is far less believeable.

[shortbuspoker]

I just hope after reading everything, Hockey Guy and certain others apologize to me for their nasty posts calling me a "hypocrite" for allowing the initial questioning Jasep's legitimacy to continue.

I will admit that I was wrong about Johnny. I didn't want to believe it, but I was wrong. I was naive to think that someone who had such a seemingly good track record on the forums with bets and contests could be trusted and I was completely wrong and there is no other way to say it.

That said, I will not apologize to you for shit Druff. You allowed nonstop trolling and accusations in a "serious business" thread by people who had no connections or insight into what was going on. Just because those unfounded accusations turned out to be correct does not make the process in which they were leveled any less wrong. If you throw enough shit at a wall some of it will eventually stick.

I still believe, as do others, that you are a hypocrite and I haven't seen or read any of your posts that would lead me to believe otherwise. You own a forum that is supposed to expose scammers and cheaters then you applaud someone who stole. It's ok to steal as long as you steal from people who also steal. That is not right regardless of what you say. Stealing is stealing period. Thankfully though you are getting plenty of traffic out of all of this so good for you.

I was one of the people who ridiculed 4bet and 6tp and I was wrong for doing that. To you two guys, I apologize. I don't feel the urge to post here anymore and I wasn't going to but I got a dm from Drexel on Twitter that made me want to read the rest of this thread. I am done with this place for good and I doubt I will be missed anyways so that doesn't really matter.

Feel free to flame away I'm sure I deserve it.

[SrslySirius]

I remember Jasep mentioning that he co-owned another restaraunt in Rhode Island called Fatty McGees. He said that he cleaned the place up and re-sold it for a healthy profit. Apparently it wasn't a huge hit either.

http://www.urbanspoon.com/r/41/57233...Pub-Providence

http://http://www.yelp.com/biz/fatty-mcgees-providence

Rebecca F.

Minus 5 million points for the stupid name.

I swear, I was only there for Buckhunter. [I don't even like Buckhunter].

As captured in the previous review, this place is not only not special, it's kind of bad. And not awesome dive-bar bad. 18-and-unders sneaking drinks and over-40s leering creepily, this bar has everyone I'm trying to avoid in this town. And all the food I don't want to eat, unseasoned.

They also get a nomination in the "worst bar bathroom" contest, which could appropriately be called a "water closet". Make sure you're up-to-date on your vaccinations before venturing in there.

[Steve-O]

From some local Blog:

Man shot and killed this morning at Club Pulse

PROVIDENCE — A club with a history of violence was the scene of the city’s 11th homicide early Christmas morning.

Just after 1:30 this morning shots were fired inside Club Pulse, killing one person and injuring two others, according to police.

The police are not yet releasing the names of the deceased or the other victims, saying they are waiting to notify relatives. No arrests have been made.

-- Scott Mayerowitz, Journal staff writer

Club Pulse, at 86 Crary St., just north of Rhode Island Hospital, has been the scene of several violent outbreaks in recent years.

Arguing in the past for the club’s closure, the police have said its clientele has a “propensity for violence.”

Maj. Paul Fitzgerald, head of the uniform division, told the city’s Board of Licenses in March of 2005 that “if the club continues to stay open, we will continues to have shootings, we will continues to have incidents there.”

Those comments came after an incident that month where someone fired six shots toward a small group standing outside the entrance. The group included three police officers called to the scene to help deal with a disturbance.

The South Providence nightclub was closed but only for two weeks and not because of the violence but because the fire alarm and sprinkler systems were not in compliance with state law. The Board of Licenses ultimately decided that the link between the shooting and the club was too tenuous to blame the owner.

However, after another breakout of violence in November 2005, the board did take action against the club. In March of this year, the board fined the club $1,500 for failing to prevent violence when a large fight began on the dance floor. The club’s security removed the combatants but the police said they were then forced to disperse a group that resumed fighting in the parking lot.

The club, which can hold up to 450 patrons, has been required in the past to hire six police officers on Fridays and three officers on Saturday and Sunday nights. It is owned by Alex Tomasso, who also owns Bar One in Providence and Feast of Famine, a chain of restaurants.

Tomasso has owned several Providence nightclubs, including Sanctuary, which was closed by the city in March 2004 by after violent incidents including a fatal shooting and another shooting months later in the club’s parking lot.

The victim of this morning’s shooting at Club Pulse was pronounced dead at Rhode Island Hospital. The other two victims were in stable condition this morning, according to police.

Posted by Peter Phipps at 12:05 PM | Comment

http://www.beloblog.com/ProJo_Blogs/...hives/2006/12/

If you checkout RestaurantUnion.org you'll see who the last owner was, who happens to have the same last name as Jasep. Probably bought soon after this, but Jasep said they opened ity themselves and did so good they opened two more locations....

[Dan Druff]

We shouldn't be looking to assign blame to third parties here.

When a scammer commits a theft, it is 100% the fault of the scammer himself, unless knowing accomplices were involved. I don't believe there were any accomplices here.

It is easy to look back in hindsight and point out what everyone could have done differently to prevent this.

You also have to recall that you can't make serious public charges against someone -- especially a friend -- unless you have sufficient evidence to back it up.

Look how much of a beating people took in this thread who were questioning Jasep, prior to all of the evidence being presented. Many didn't even want to discuss this or consider that something could possibly be wrong.

We had the obvious red flag of Jasep missing the Thursday payment and "making up" with a losing session on Friday (thus making it no longer necessary to pay anyone), and very few made a big deal about it. In fact, those questioning the matter (Anal Hershiser and Cokehead come to mind) were slammed pretty hard.

If Brandon had come forward a few weeks earlier and accused his friend and business partner of scamming, without providing sufficient evidence to back up his claims, he would have been attacked mercilessly and accused of being a horrible friend.

Also keep in mind that Brandon and China are not technical people, and did not know that Jasep was running VPR on a $4.95/month server while claiming $120/month expenses. They noticed he was evasive regarding providing them access to the billing info, but he claimed it was because he ran "20 other sites" along with it on the same account, and that it would be too convoluted to understand. Sure, in hindsight they should have been more aggressive about checking into this, but they weren't running VPR for the money, and they knew it was generating relatively small profits at best, so they didn't press the matter.

I am pretty sure that the entire 5k was spent very shortly after it was received. Unless someone spoke up by mid-December (at which point nobody really had the proper evidence to do so), the end result would have likely been the same, aside from the overselling that occurred during the past few weeks.

[chinamaniac]

Brandon was a victim here. He came forth with the info publicly when things really started not adding up on the bap. Again a lot of it was bunches or small things but it helped to open a huge can of worms. Without sep skipping days and missing payments none of this gets out.

The fact that he disappeared has been quite common over the years as at some points he had become burnt out from doing radio. It's not like this is the first time Brandon has gone Mia from the radio and posting. This is actually a short hiatus compared to some in the past

[Anal_Hershiser]

Here is my view - fwiw

Poker / Gambling is an activity where you are looking for an edge on another person or business, in the case of a casino, +EV slots, or card counting in BJ, and also pursuing an enjoyable past time. Some gamble as their main source of a living. Some gamble as a past time. All the drama on these boards is also enjoyable sometimes. But shit is getting very real here as we see from drexel's post above. Clearly a line has been crossed. Our community is a community known to be generous to charities.

From my perspective, here is what could happen.

- Payouts to all cash investors in Projekt:Sep should be made asap since the BAP has been cancelled. These payout should be made using the BAP cash. This should be done with whatever funds Jasep has.
- Payouts to debt investors in the BAP should not be made right away out of the available BAP cash funds for what are obvious reasons. If the cash investors are paid out in full and if funds are still available to payout the debt investors, then those payments can be made as well.
- At this point there may or may not be anything owing. If anything is owing, then individual repayment arrangements should be made. Borrowing from someone else other than a bank to make these repayments, should not happen.
- 22Q, the payment to 22Q should be verified. If this has not been made, then I suggest the community rally immediately to make this right or even righter (as I suspect might happen) and that Jasep then owes the community. I believe badguy23 may have made a payment to 22Q based on what I saw in LLPR chat, but I may have been mistaken. I will pledge a payment to the "22Q Make it Right" fund if one is arranged. By the way, these payments can be made directly to 22Q using their website for most people - but the payment you make can be recorded in the "22Q Make it Right" thread if something is set up for this. I realize that the 22Q Ironman thing was a VPR initiative, but I suspect druff would allow PFA to be used in some way to organize this initiaitive.
- discussions about VPR partnership squabbles and other partnership squabbles should be kept private.

I have not enjoyed Jasep being trashed mercilessly. I do not enjoy any fellow person being trashed mercilessly. If that makes me a pussy - then so be it. People make bad decisions all the time. Who hasn't bought their wife or kid a present they couldn't afford? Many people had an angle in the Projekt:Sep - some wanted to see him succeed, some wanted a way to get a debt repaid, some want to invest, some wanted a sweat and some wanted probably something else, but safe to say everyone wanted something and sometimes things just don't work out the way you want. My point in making this post is not to blame or defend anyone. I think we can all get past this, if we choose and everyone still can do the right thing. I'd rather get things going positively in the right direction again, and if only the trolls would nap it out for a few days, maybe it will.

Go hug a tree you horrible fucking ball gagger. Christ, you make Steve-O and Sirius look like Rambo and the Terminator. Being accepting and forgiving is one thing, but you're just a fucking doormat. Grow a pair, Mr. Ken doll.

[sonatine]

At some point, people are going to have to accept that Jasep probably isnt some calculating monster, just an average, every day dirtbag who tried to get slick and got in way the fuck over his head.

I mean, I get it, people are using histrionics because its a safe angle and they think it legitimizes them in the face of their peers, thats fine, personally I dont expect a lot of adult perspectives from this site so its not like Im disappointed.

But the general trend of demonizing Jasep and looking for more people to throw on his pyre does nothing to further the cause of curing the multitude of simpleton rube marks who call this place home of their naivety.

[Belly Buster]

Much as it pains me Mason was probably right.

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/sh...&postcount=148

[Anal_Hershiser]

That said, I will not apologize to you for shit Druff. You allowed nonstop trolling and accusations in a "serious business" thread by people who had no connections or insight into what was going on. Just because those unfounded accusations turned out to be correct does not make the process in which they were leveled any less wrong. If you throw enough shit at a wall some of it will eventually stick.

[WOOFsam]

From some local Blog:

Man shot and killed this morning at Club Pulse

PROVIDENCE — A club with a history of violence was the scene of the city’s 11th homicide early Christmas morning.

Just after 1:30 this morning shots were fired inside Club Pulse, killing one person and injuring two others, according to police.

The police are not yet releasing the names of the deceased or the other victims, saying they are waiting to notify relatives. No arrests have been made.

-- Scott Mayerowitz, Journal staff writer

Club Pulse, at 86 Crary St., just north of Rhode Island Hospital, has been the scene of several violent outbreaks in recent years.

Arguing in the past for the club’s closure, the police have said its clientele has a “propensity for violence.”

Maj. Paul Fitzgerald, head of the uniform division, told the city’s Board of Licenses in March of 2005 that “if the club continues to stay open, we will continues to have shootings, we will continues to have incidents there.”

Those comments came after an incident that month where someone fired six shots toward a small group standing outside the entrance. The group included three police officers called to the scene to help deal with a disturbance.

The South Providence nightclub was closed but only for two weeks and not because of the violence but because the fire alarm and sprinkler systems were not in compliance with state law. The Board of Licenses ultimately decided that the link between the shooting and the club was too tenuous to blame the owner.

However, after another breakout of violence in November 2005, the board did take action against the club. In March of this year, the board fined the club $1,500 for failing to prevent violence when a large fight began on the dance floor. The club’s security removed the combatants but the police said they were then forced to disperse a group that resumed fighting in the parking lot.

The club, which can hold up to 450 patrons, has been required in the past to hire six police officers on Fridays and three officers on Saturday and Sunday nights. It is owned by Alex Tomasso, who also owns Bar One in Providence and Feast of Famine, a chain of restaurants.

Tomasso has owned several Providence nightclubs, including Sanctuary, which was closed by the city in March 2004 by after violent incidents including a fatal shooting and another shooting months later in the club’s parking lot.

The victim of this morning’s shooting at Club Pulse was pronounced dead at Rhode Island Hospital. The other two victims were in stable condition this morning, according to police.

Posted by Peter Phipps at 12:05 PM | Comment

http://www.beloblog.com/ProJo_Blogs/...hives/2006/12/

If you checkout RestaurantUnion.org you'll see who the last owner was, who happens to have the same last name as Jasep. Probably bought soon after this, but Jasep said they opened ity themselves and did so good they opened two more locations....

,,,,
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if you google that place it has a story about alex the owner surrenduring the license for that place in jan. 2007.....closed...
No Pulse at Club Pulse...

[Belly Buster]

Actually this makes sense after he told this story:

When I first moved to this state I went and set up a bank account with Citizens Bank. I owned 3 restaurants at the time and was drawing money from them monthly and I wanted the money deposited same day instead of having to wait, so I chose the bank that those checks were drawn on.

I opened the account with $10.00 and was expecting to get a few checks in about 4 weeks that should have been around 10k. After moving expenses and buying a new car I wasn't stacked up very well financially, but that was okay I just figured I would live light until I got my checks, no biggie....

About 5 days after opening the account I got a letter from the bank that looked like an overdraft letter, I was like what the fuck? I didn't even use the bank account.

I opened the letter and it was a letter confirming a wire transfer for 50k in to my account....

I didn't know what to do, it was pretty sick, I went to the bank and checked my balance with my temp atm card and sure enough $50,010.00....

The next day was a Friday and I was in a weird spot, I had never had anything like this happen to me before... I called a lawyer friend of mine and he told me to do nothing, ignore the money, don't tell them about it, don't touch it....

In my head I knew that if I lost all of that money I would be in serious trouble, I also knew I had 10k coming in soon so I could replace that much of the money if shit went wrong.

I also knew that because it was Friday nothing could even be done until Monday at the earliest... I called Foxwoods and booked a room.

I went to the bank and withdrew 5k, I then went to the other branch down the street and withdrew another 5k...

I went to Foxwoods and long story short... I won 15k, mostly playing 10/25 NLHE and some 500 a hand paigow.

Monday morning I went to the bank, made a 10k deposit and asked to speak to the branch manager. I told him about the wire, they had no idea what to do, they couldn't figure out where it came from or anything....

They gave me some pens and a gym bag with speakers in it as appreciation...

The money stayed in my account for a while before they retrieved it... but I didn't touch it at all after that

Pretty much the same as you're suggesting, maybe he tried to gamble with the 22Q money and it didn't work out as good as the phantom deposit money

With all the shady shit going down, I was suprised this wasn't mentioned sooner. Jasep talked openly about this on at least two radio shows. On this occasion he lucked out with a big score, but could just have just as easly blown through the whole 50k in one weekend.