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    Jeff Boski takes double payment from a tournament cash (Update: He was BANNED by YouTube on May 10, 2020)



    (Note on 5/10/2020: Video is gone because his channel is deleted.)

    Any thoughts? Notice he never says he got double paid, he also doesn’t deny the accusations.

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    Wow.

    Lots to say about this one.

    First off, not only doesn't he deny it, but I think this was intentional.

    He quickly showed this screen shot from the Rio's system:

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    Notice the top four lines. He got paid on July 1, and then got paid again on July 14.

    He says that it had to do with his payout ticket (which they give to all people who cash at the WSOP) not initially being collected, which means the second wasn't a default payout. He actually showed up with it again and collected the money a second time.

    There's no chance this was a mistake.

    He cashed only 3 times at the 2018 WSOP: http://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/player.php?a=r&n=101781

    The $4938 cash was his final one, on June 27.

    It looks likely that he decided to take a shot at redeeming the cash again 13 days after he did it the first time, and it worked.

    Then some auditor found it and locked his account until he paid the money back.

    I'm very surprised the consequences were so light.

    This was clearly intentional. It's not like he can claim he had 13 cashes and got confused. He cashed THREE TIMES the entire WSOP, and this was his biggest one. He definitely didn't get confused.

    If I were Caesars, I would have banned his ass for life.

    However, I also know that the WSOP is very social media wary (they don't like having visible people on poker social media bashing them), so it's possible Boski (real name Jeff Sluzinski) got a pass based upon his highly popular vlog.

    LOL at giving the guy a $100 food voucher for paying back the money he scammed from them.

    Unbelievable.

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    His explanation for double cashing is on the YouTube comments Pinned to the top. It’s really something to LOL at

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    This is pretty lol ... jesus the poker world is scummy

     
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dan Druff View Post
    LOL at giving the guy a $100 food voucher for paying back the money he scammed from them.

    Unbelievable.
    Damn, I once got accidentally overpaid at a Venetian tournament and got nothing for being honest and giving the money back. *angrily shakes fist at uncle sheldon*

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    Here's his explanation, from his YouTube page (thanks Drawingdead):

    Quote Originally Posted by Jeff Boski
    When you cash a WSOP event, a dealer walks you over to another employee that has a computer and they take your ID and input what MTT you cashed in and what place you got. They also give you a payout card that you can keep as a souvenir or give to the person at the payout cage. You don't need possession of your payout card to get paid since they already have all your info. You just need a passport or drivers license.

    Historically, when I cash events at the WSOP, I don't get paid out right away for various reasons. There may already be a long line from all the recent min cashers, or I might just need to register another event.

    At the end of every WSOP, I go to the cage to get a printout of all of my buy ins and cashes for tax purposes and to claim any unpaid cashes. AFAIK, if you don't claim them, WSOP keeps them. They said I didn't get paid for my tag team cash, so I got paid cash. I didn't think it was possible for the computer system to pay me twice for the same cash.


    He is correct that indeed you get the payout card, and indeed he delayed cashing out by 3 days (he cashed on June 28, and collected the money on July 1).

    However, his own story about showing up on July 14 to "claim unpaid cashes" is such BS. When you play a ton of WSOP events and end up with three small cashes, you remember every fucking one (especially the final and largest one), and you know exactly what you collected and didn't collect. Again, if he had 13 cashes and showed up on July 14 to make sure he got them all, and then got double-paid without his knowledge, that story would be semi-believable. Not with three.

    What I believe really happened is that he had a crappy series, and was probably staring at that 12th place payout card, wondering if he could trick Caesars into double-paying him.

    So rather than showing up and outright claiming, "You didn't pay me" and then most likely getting caught lying, he showed up asking, "Hey, I'm not 100% sure, but I think I never collected this win, because I still have this payout card."

    Then the rep took a look, didn't see it when the event finished in late June (because he cashed July 1), and double-paid him.

    It's even possible he collected the money first on July 1 (instead of June 28) specifically to make them more confused when he attempted to pull this.

    His own words from the video also contradict his explanation. He seems proud that the WSOP just invented the "Boski Rule" for 2019, which eliminates the payout cards. So this mistake definitely has something to do with the payout card. His story above claims that he simply showed up and had them check for the computer for unpaid cashes, which should have NOTHING to do with the payout card.

    Surely the payout card had something to do with all of this, if they eliminated it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dan Druff View Post
    Here's his explanation, from his YouTube page (thanks Drawingdead):

    Quote Originally Posted by Jeff Boski
    When you cash a WSOP event, a dealer walks you over to another employee that has a computer and they take your ID and input what MTT you cashed in and what place you got. They also give you a payout card that you can keep as a souvenir or give to the person at the payout cage. You don't need possession of your payout card to get paid since they already have all your info. You just need a passport or drivers license.

    Historically, when I cash events at the WSOP, I don't get paid out right away for various reasons. There may already be a long line from all the recent min cashers, or I might just need to register another event.

    At the end of every WSOP, I go to the cage to get a printout of all of my buy ins and cashes for tax purposes and to claim any unpaid cashes. AFAIK, if you don't claim them, WSOP keeps them. They said I didn't get paid for my tag team cash, so I got paid cash. I didn't think it was possible for the computer system to pay me twice for the same cash.


    He is correct that indeed you get the payout card, and indeed he delayed cashing out by 3 days (he cashed on June 28, and collected the money on July 1).

    However, his own story about showing up on July 14 to "claim unpaid cashes" is such BS. When you play a ton of WSOP events and end up with three small cashes, you remember every fucking one (especially the final and largest one), and you know exactly what you collected and didn't collect. Again, if he had 13 cashes and showed up on July 14 to make sure he got them all, and then got double-paid without his knowledge, that story would be semi-believable. Not with three.

    What I believe really happened is that he had a crappy series, and was probably staring at that 12th place payout card, wondering if he could trick Caesars into double-paying him.

    So rather than showing up and outright claiming, "You didn't pay me" and then most likely getting caught lying, he showed up asking, "Hey, I'm not 100% sure, but I think I never collected this win, because I still have this payout card."

    Then the rep took a look, didn't see it when the event finished in late June (because he cashed July 1), and double-paid him.

    It's even possible he collected the money first on July 1 (instead of June 28) specifically to make them more confused when he attempted to pull this.

    His own words from the video also contradict his explanation. He seems proud that the WSOP just invented the "Boski Rule" for 2019, which eliminates the payout cards. So this mistake definitely has something to do with the payout card. His story above claims that he simply showed up and had them check for the computer for unpaid cashes, which should have NOTHING to do with the payout card.

    Surely the payout card had something to do with all of this, if they eliminated it.


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    Boski deleted my comment calling out his BS.

    Keep in mind my comment was a REPLY and it got more likes than his pinned BS comment I was replying to.

    Bad form. Dude makes a spectacle out of his double-payment, lies about it, and then deletes my comment for calling out that lie?

    I'm gonna call this out on Twitter.

    BTW here was my comment which he deleted:


     
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    Bump.

    Scammers like Christopher Mitchell can keep going while poker vlog channels are getting banned.





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    Quote Originally Posted by Reno View Post
    Scammers like CM can keep going while poker vlog channels are getting banned.




    It really is ridiculous I totally agree. YouTube is very strict when it comes to promoting online gaming sites. I cringed every time Boski would say use promo code “Boski on ACR” because I knew that people could report that either just to be assholes or if they didn’t like him. I think that’s what took him down. I didn’t watch too many of his vlogs but I remember him plugging the site when I did.

    The only major vlogger who has kept the description area clean of real money links is Andrew Neeme. When Brad Owen started promoting PKC (They shutdown months back) both in his videos & in his description I was like how much money could he be possibly getting to risk a channel with nearly 200K subs getting taken down?

    I have reported CM’s videos countless times. I guess the world just doesn’t make sense. They have decided to come down hard on real money gambling advertisements and not scams. Another issue is there is so many “borderline” scams on YouTube I think they feel like it will open Pandora’s box if they start taking some down. The gambling site rule is just so black and white they either did it or not. It’s not even close to fair but we got to work around it. I feel bad for Boski but he had to know that promoting ACR could very well destroy his Channel. I think Mitchell’s channel will go down but we need more and more people reporting it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by JeffDime View Post

    It really is ridiculous I totally agree. YouTube is very strict when it comes to promoting online gaming sites. I cringed every time Boski would say use promo code “Boski on ACR” because I knew that people could report that either just to be assholes or if they didn’t like him. I think that’s what took him down. I didn’t watch too many of his vlogs but I remember him plugging the site when I did.
    Looks like another reason.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Reno View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by JeffDime View Post

    It really is ridiculous I totally agree. YouTube is very strict when it comes to promoting online gaming sites. I cringed every time Boski would say use promo code “Boski on ACR” because I knew that people could report that either just to be assholes or if they didn’t like him. I think that’s what took him down. I didn’t watch too many of his vlogs but I remember him plugging the site when I did.
    Looks like another reason.

    That would explain the third strike while he wasn’t posting anything knew. But all the prior strikes are under “Harmful or Dangerous Content” which I believe are people reporting him.

    Either way it’s super fucked up that Boski’s channel is down & Mitchell’s is still up. Also, fuck Poker Central for putting blanket a copyright claim on all there shit. I’m glad I canceled my subscription to PokerGo a while ago.
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    F Jeff Boski.

    This phony censors criticism the same way Christopher Mitchell does.

    Live by censorship, die by censorship.


     
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dan Druff View Post
    F Jeff Boski.

    This phony censors criticism the same way Christopher Mitchell does.

    Live by censorship, die by censorship.


    I would be pretty disappointed if you're taking your anger out on his obv shady behavior of the double tourney pay and using his youtube banning as evidence that he is shady.

    Did you edit the OP to make it seem that way?

    Am I missing something and the youtube banning is somehow related to the topic of this thread?

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    Quote Originally Posted by duped_samaritan View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by Dan Druff View Post
    F Jeff Boski.

    This phony censors criticism the same way Christopher Mitchell does.

    Live by censorship, die by censorship.


    I would be pretty disappointed if you're taking your anger out on his obv shady behavior of the double tourney pay and using his youtube banning as evidence that he is shady.

    Did you edit the OP to make it seem that way?

    Am I missing something and the youtube banning is somehow related to the topic of this thread?
    The radio segment regarding Boski is coming back to me. I was not on the forum yet at that time but I would say that the closing of his channel belongs here much more than on Mitchell’s thread. I understand Druff putting it here on what is the Boski thread as there is no need for two.

    First off the YouTube comment blocking is pissing me off. I understand blocking comments that are clearly just trolling or mean spirited but allowing any comment to be blocked at the sole discretion of content creator is really ridiculous. I get that YouTube doesn’t want to go through the process of reviewing an appeal to a blocked comment. In no World is that practical. I also get the comment section can be a cesspool & is just nasty for no real reason at times.

    If YouTube sees that a channel is blocking a majority of the comments shouldn’t that be a red flag? This should especially go to a channel which is clearly selling products &/or services. The comments can save so many people from being scammed.

    The rule should be if you are going to hide over a certain percentage of your comments then you need to have your comment function disabled. If you’re spending your whole day hiding comments then you shouldn’t get to cherry pick the few good ones.

    Druff destroyed Boski in a few paragraphs. There is just no way he didn’t know he got paid. There is no fucking way this guy wasn’t going to remember he cashed THREE times. What utter nonsense it is and so dismissive of the audience. Really Jeff you go with a sheet & make sure you got all THREE of your cashes? So instead of looking like a weasel he now can claim he’s such a big shot he must go back to the Rio and make sure he got all those cashes because he so prolific that he just loses count.

    The audience eats up the BS & Druff just wrote what was probably pretty close if not the truth. 3 ways Boski could of dealt with Druff’s comment. 1) Respond to it 2) Ignore it 3) Hide it. 1 is the proper way, 2 is weak but acceptable as others can draw their own conclusion and 3 is just plain chickenshit.

    I will admit there has surely been times in my life at a casino where the dealer clearly made a mistake in my favor or I think I may have been overpaid. On most occasions I will notify the dealer. There have been times where I am sure I haven’t & rationalized it by thinking I’ve got to have been shorted in the casino a number of times when I didn’t notice when it happened. Therefore a mistake or two going my way isn’t such a big deal. I am talking about pit games here not poker of course just strictly playing against the house. I think we all have been in the situation where we see a player get paid when they shouldn’t & in general I think it’s not my place to correct that mistake.

    In Boski’s case this seems to have been premeditated. This story is just ridiculous.
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    While the standard rule is two wrongs don’t make a right as pointed out the fact YouTube allows BS scammers like CM to perpetuate their scams online and monetizing that crap while taking down videos like above just make no sense. The amazing standard of the YouTube Nazis never ceases to amaze me. That should concern everybody. Legit gaming sites are demonetized and kicked out while crooks are allowed to perpetuate their criminal actions essentially.

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    The ACR faucet gets turned back on (Doubt they would pay him nearly the same without YouTube). He was clearly in violation of the gambling promotion TOS. Pretty much all the other vloggers are at least promoting betting apps on their platform so they know if one domino falls they could be next. Still the arbitrary nature of YouTube’s decisions are head scratching. Boski got a lot of equity back here today.

    It appears that @Chen basically unilaterally got this turned around. Would he care enough to take a look at Christopher Mitchell’s page?
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    Can someone tell me who @Chen is? Does he work for YouTube? I see he's followed by a number of poker players. Does he have a poker/gambling association too?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dan Druff View Post
    Can someone tell me who @Chen is? Does he work for YouTube? I see he's followed by a number of poker players. Does he have a poker/gambling association too?
    https://twitter.com/thebradowen/status/1229394656024088577

    All I know is the basics that his name is Lester Chen, he definitely works for YouTube as head of the gaming (which refers to esports not gambling) division in the US and he is the guy that poker vloggers or streamers seem to go to when their channel is shut down or suspended after getting a strike.

    I think Brad Own started this tradition as he has over 200K subs and really freaked the f out when his channel was given its second strike at the time I believe.
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