Kristy Arnett scammed for 20k was karma biting her in the ass

[FRANKRIZZO]

I used to read card player magazine which is owned by barry schulman. He got a subscription poker site up and running hoping poker would be legalized and he would have a huge player base. There where about 10,000ish players on there. He had some pretty big prizes which included a 30k monthly feeroll. Everyone knew Arnett was a promoter of the site and received a paycheck from them. Low and behold the maybe 10th freeroll she played she binked for 7,000 usd and had a player field of around 4,000 or so. Aside from the rig aspect people where up in arms that a paid employee was allowed to play and shouldn't have been. She never played another tournament on the site. Just another shady dealing with Barry Shulman.

[SantaCruz]

Unless Kristy is an owner or works in some capacity in management at CardPlayer, there is no reason in the world she shouldn't be able to play in their games.

Players can contribute to and support various magazines without being restricted from playing in sponsored events just as poker pros for PokerStars can play on PokerStars' tables. It takes more than simply receiving a paycheck to make that person an insider.

More generally speaking, characterizing Kristy, of all people, as a shady character is a real stretch. There are few people in the poker world who are as much of an open book as is Kristy Arnett.

[BeerAndPoker]

I've never heard anyone say anything bad about Kristy that had any merit to it.

As for winning this freeroll anything can happen. If they ran it 10 times and Kristy or other cardplayer employees made up 3 of the winners then I'd question the integrity too, but not from just one tournament. She played it 10 times and won once? The odds are rare for anyone to win a 4000 entry field but if you play 10 times then 10 people are going to win those events so it's not crazy for her to bink one.

Kristy's main flaw in being scammed is because she is too nice that a thief took advantage of her gullibility.

With her involvement in the poker world Kristy should have questioned things going on before jumping in but she got excited with a business idea too much that she just went with it.

If I recall Kristy mentioned in her podcast about how she discussed this mentor business with her husband first so if he was skeptical a bit he should have talked her out of it or done more due diligence himself before they invested.

Kristy clearly got screwed over and didn't deserve to be but she could have done much more investigating, which she admits.

[FRANKRIZZO]

It was her first 10k tournament and last , she never played on spade club again. binking against 4,000 player field? comeon now.


http://www.cardplayer.com/poker-news...esss-39-arnett

Maybe im wrong but would it be above barry to rig it up for her? huge lol at questioner asking her how she heard of spade club in the link above. It was the 2nd 40k freeroll in history of the site she didn't play it 10 times. It was her highest tourney she ever won!!! Get out of town Kristy!

Barry shulman is such a slime bucket. His reasoning for advertising for lock when Lock stopped paying players was a legal obligation. Its not possible he could have programmed the software for the win? 4000 is a lot of donks and she won it on the second time it was run in history of the site and never played at spade club lol again.

[SantaCruz]

First of all, she's a pretty good player.

Secondly, it's pretty hard to fathom that she is some kind of one time superuser.

[TwitchySeal]

Is this a joke?

[FRANKRIZZO]

First of all, she's a pretty good player.

Secondly, it's pretty hard to fathom that she is some kind of one time superuser.

Wish her all the best. Semmes like a genuine and nice person. I was out of bounds. She didn't deserve to be scammed for 20k.

[kristyarnett]

I used to read card player magazine which is owned by barry schulman. He got a subscription poker site up and running hoping poker would be legalized and he would have a huge player base. There where about 10,000ish players on there. He had some pretty big prizes which included a 30k monthly feeroll. Everyone knew Arnett was a promoter of the site and received a paycheck from them. Low and behold the maybe 10th freeroll she played she binked for 7,000 usd and had a player field of around 4,000 or so. Aside from the rig aspect people where up in arms that a paid employee was allowed to play and shouldn't have been. She never played another tournament on the site. Just another shady dealing with Barry Shulman.

I'm not sure if this allowed, but I'd love to comment on this. I've never commented on SpadeClub until now. I know this thread is pretty old, but it's my name, and truth is important to me.

SpadeClub was born from the Shulman's who owned CardPlayer. When they started the company, they made it separate from CardPlayer but existed under the same roof. It was clear whether you worked for SpadeClub or you worked for CardPlayer. Because we were totally separate, SpadeClub employees were not allowed to play but CardPlayer employees were encouraged to play, try out the beta, and give feedback.

Every month there was a "Main Event" and the top prize was $10,000. I played all of them with not much luck until the one I won. As CP employees, we ALL played because the layover was so big! I remember sitting on the couch playing and I was so nervous!! When the last card was dealt, I was in disbelief. It was more money than I'd ever come close to winning before. I was so happy.

When I came to work the next day, I was excited, but quickly felt self conscious because it didn't seem like anyone was really excited for me. My boss, Justin Marchand was always in my corner and said, "Don't worry, you didn't do anything wrong." But I remember SpadeClub managers needing have a meeting for how they were going to handle me winning since there were already SpadeClub members irate because I won. They kept posting RIGGED everywhere. If any other CardPlayer employee had won, it wouldn't have been a big deal, but I was one of the faces of the company.


I really appreciate this website because it gives people the opportunity to share and tell truths to prevent other people from getting scammed. I also am really aware of how dangerous it can be when throwing people under the bus with the words "scam." It's really important to understand these are real humans. Before you post something like that you want to have REAL evidence.

I also appreciate those who have commented about my character.

And just quickly, about me getting scammed- you know the saying, "If you never get bluffed, you're calling too much?" -That's how I think about it. I choose to see the best in people while of course being smart and learning from my mistakes. It was embarrassing to talk about all the mistakes I'd made, but I wanted to prevent other people from getting scammed as well.

Thanks guys.
Kristy Arnett

[Dan Druff]

Thank you for your comments, Kristy.

(Also, it's verified that the above post was really her.)

I don't feel you did anything wrong regarding Spade Club, nor do I think it was rigged in any way.

You've always seemed like a very nice person, and I felt very bad for you when I read your heartfelt blog about being scammed. I completely believed your story.

Thanks for posting.

[JoeD]

She can and should sue for her $20k imo.

[Dive_Bar_Dave]

She is playing on a LATB streaming WSOPC Final Table on Youtube right now. 9th is 20k. First is 217k. 1700 buy-in.

[BeerAndPoker]

I just saw this on twitter.

Kristy sure was a luck sack in this hand.

Embedded Tweet

https://twitter.com/twt/status/973697248998633474

You probably have to click the image to see it but what a sick run out.