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Druff write an article and post it on the blog about Betoline facilitating the Christopher Mitchell scam with a clickbait headline and then do the same for a radio show. People can then send that to Betoline to demonstrate how Mitchell is hurting their brand.
That's actually not a bad idea. I just have to decide exactly what way to word it.
In November, a girl hit the $250k "must hit" jackpot on Ignition, and they held up her funds for 3 weeks without telling her why. It seemed they were deliberately stalling and trying to find ways not to pay her, and she couldn't get any answers from anyone.
I decided to assist her (even though we didn't know each other), so I posted a sensational headline on Twitter, suggesting that maybe Ignition was broke and that's why they weren't paying her. (This was a possibility because of the FTX-related crypto crash at the time, so it wasn't unreasonable to theorize.) In any case, the tweet got 300k+ views in 24 hours. Ignition realized they had a PR disaster on their hands, and promptly paid her the same day. I asked for nothing in return from her, aside from an appearance on my next radio show.
So this was proof positive that: 1) Massive social media pressure works with these offshore casinos and 2) Even though I only have 4400 followers, I am followed by enough high profile people to amplify important tweets. In fact, I have several tweets which have 6-figure views in the past few months.
The challenge will be getting people interested enough to retweet/like a CM-related story. "Career scammer is an affiliate on BOL" isn't terribly interesting on its face. The reason we all follow Chrissy is because he's so ridiculous and clownish that he's a constant source of entertainment. There are many other YouTube scammers out there, but Chrissy is near the top in the categories of over-the-top lies and ridiculous claims/behavior. The problem is that this is hard to communicate in a tweet.
So I'll have to figure out a proper way to frame this to get people's interest, while not saying anything untrue which would hurt my own reputation.
I do want to give BOL the chance to do the right thing, just like I told that girl on Ignition to call them, ask for the highest manager she could reach, and inform them that a poker influencer was about to blow up this story and make them look bad. Ignition told her they didn't care, probably believing she was bluffing. But I wanted to give Ignition a heads up that this was coming, just in case they were willing to do the right thing and pay her without my having to post something negative about them.
I think my next step will be to contact someone at BOL (I will look into who that might be), and give them a heads up about Chrissy and how he will harm their brand. It needs to be someone influential there, and not just some customer support monkey.
There is a big challenge here, though. Chrissy is clearly driving a lot of profit to BOL. That's why he gets these monthly cash infusions (which he then promptly chunks off via problem gambling). BOL does not want to lose that cash cow. So the only way we are going to have them yank Chrissy's affiliate deal is if they become convinced that being associated with Chrissy will harm their reputation too much.
You should also know that BOL is not against deception in order to get idiots to chunk off money there. That's the whole point of the fake money they give their affiliates to play with on stream. The idea is that the affiliates will show themselves winning big money on stream, and idiots will deposit believing they can accomplish the same. This means that the line of, "OMG GUYZ, DID YA KNOW CHRISTOPHER MITCHELL IS LYING ABOUT HIS STRATEGIES WINNING????" won't fly with them.
I'm going to think about how to best accomplish this. Feel free to post suggestions.
In the meantime, Chrissy, if you don't want this to happen, and if we have you all wrong, I will make an offer to you. If you can prove to me that you are a winning gambler at brick and mortar casinos (I can't trust BOL results for obvious reasons), I will take this thread down, post a public apology, not contact BOL, and pay you $3500 for one of my members to attend your next mastermind event. Get a hold of me by texting (775) 372-8355, and we will hammer out details. Limited time offer.
