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    *** OFFICIAL *** Poker Fraud Alert Radio Thread for 05/16/2020 *** $50 FREEROLL *** Houston Curtis interview *** 9:30pm PDT start time

    Show begins at approximately 9:30pm PDT, on Saturday, May 16, 2020.

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    Agenda for today:

    - Interview with "card mechanic" Houston Curtis, key figure in "Molly's Game" and longtime Russ Hamilton friend/associate

    - Rampart Casino in Vegas lays off its workers with a voicemail message

    - Is supposed "internal memo" about MGM property reopening dates real or fabricated?

    - Caesars e-mails out "health and safety" video, June seems likely reopening date for some Strip casinos if allowed

    - Four Indian casinos to reopen this week in California, despite state's objections

    - PFA listener takes trip to Harrah's Ak-Chin in Arizona, gives report on reopening

    - Rumor: Alleged party robbery by two NFL players in Florida may have been private blackjack game run by a well known poker pro

    - Jeff Boski's YouTube channel gets suspended

    - Coronavirus discussion:
    -- What are we waiting for? A case for reopening
    -- How much did US mistakes in February and March really end up affecting the situation?
    -- Los Angeles prison inmates are trying to infect each other with COVID-19 in order to get released
    -- Airlines becoming difficult with refunds for cancelled flights
    -- Why are death numbers so inaccurate?

    - Listener e-mail: Have a crowdfunded million-dollar WSOP event, featuring top 100 pros?

    - Please suggest other good topics if you don't see them here!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dan Druff View Post
    Still preparing some stuff. Full agenda to be posted shortly.

    Freeroll will be at 9:30pm and will be $50.
    Please PM me with a freeroll password. Never played before.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jayjami View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by Dan Druff View Post
    Still preparing some stuff. Full agenda to be posted shortly.

    Freeroll will be at 9:30pm and will be $50.
    Please PM me with a freeroll password. Never played before.
    Done

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    https://pokerfraudalert.com/forum/sh...d-***/page1158

    Last post if that’s what you’re talking about

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    Ask about sklansky involvement with spilotro. . There’s a story there. Not sure he’ll know it. I recall reading the original book, and there was mention of a young math whiz under his thumb, and I asked David way back, and he admitted he knew him. Can’t recall if it was poker related or some slot thing. Might be before his time. Don’t know his age. Looks fifties from google. That may be seventies stuff.

    Loved the interview. Like the guy. Old school card mechanic, gambler, etc. Sure he isn’t going to tell you everything. I’d lose respect for him if he did. That guy is a wealth of stories. He’s promoting, so obviously he’ll be more accessible now, but he strikes me as the type that might be good for a few times a year. Don’t give a fuck about knowing Russ and not wanting to pile on .
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    Thumbs up

    Curtis tell Your Good friend Russ that we still think he is a POS/.
    Birds of a feather flock together.. Im gagging listening to this BS.

    Yea right..you did not know ..yea ok.. fahgedaboudit... byby.../

    Todd. He is being deceptive in his Answers many times... imo..

    Curtis >> you make me puke how proud you are to know this shmuck Russ hamilton...your embarrassing yrself...

    "Russ is a Good man..stand up..Did not rat.he is a champion for excluding himself..old skool champ.. " wow...keep glorifying him.
    Russ isn't close to paying for his sins. Druff this guy gives 0 fks what Russ did...he is more concerned with showing off and bragging... i prefer you gett he fk off the air now...
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    Archives: https://pokerfraudalert.com/forum/sh...-Has-a-Problem

    7 hours this week, falling short of the 8 hours we've had the last few weeks. I'm sure you'll all live.

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    Hey Druff.

    I was going to comment a little bit on the Curtis Houston interview before my phone inexplicably died on me mid-call last night, so I'll leave my thoughts here.

    This was an absolutely great get for you and for the show and I'm going to do all I can to spread the word about it in my little corner of the AP community.

    An interview like that puts you in a tough spot as a journalist because of the somewhat unique expectations of a lot of your audience. You mentioned this last night when you said that given the fact that you operate a forum outing shady characters, some listeners would expect you to get him on and just yell at him about the UB/Russ Hamilton stuff.

    I would say to those listeners that if you want any high-profile guests in the future, that's not really an option, especially given the long-form interview style you excel at. No one remotely controversial is going to want to sit through 2 hours of just being berated for their sins. You've always been very fair in your willingness to let anyone who is a topic of conversation in the forum come on and defend themselves, and that serves you well with regard to your ability to get these types of guests on the show. WITH ALL THAT SAID...

    I completely get where Shoeshine Box is coming from in post #6, and I do feel like you missed some opportunities in the 2nd half of the interview to challenge him a little more on some of the UB stuff. In a way I give him some credit; not many people have the chutzpah to stick up for Russ in a public setting. I think you should have at least reminded Mr. Houston of the immense pain and hardship the UB scandal caused so many people. As you correctly noted as well, his refusal to discuss Matloubi and Pierson speaks volumes.

    Overall great interview though, and I hope he comes back.

     
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    I just read the Houston Curtis book. It's a good read. Someone should start a thread about it.

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    Glad to see that most of you liked the interview. I got good feedback via text, as well.

    I never know with these interviews how much people will like them.

    I always want to be respectful to the guest (unless they act disrespectful to me on the show, which Houston obviously wasn't), and I try to come up with questions beforehand which I think the audience would really want to hear answered.

    I thought Shrink's suggestion to have Houson on was a good one, and I'm glad I did it.

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    Excellent interview. You should definitely take up his offer of getting him back on.

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    Quote Originally Posted by MrTickle View Post
    Excellent interview. You should definitely take up his offer of getting him back on.
    Agreed. The best way to expose a lifelong grifter is get them to willingly spin their lies out for all of the public to hear. Just don’t be a sucker and pay money for any book they package their bullshit in.
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    Quote Originally Posted by MumblesBadly View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by MrTickle View Post
    Excellent interview. You should definitely take up his offer of getting him back on.
    Agreed. The best way to expose a lifelong grifter is get them to willingly spin their lies out for all of the public to hear. Just don’t be a sucker and pay money for any book they package their bullshit in.
    Hold on. You think Houston Curtis is "spinning lies"? He's already openly admitting to doing some very shady things. What's he lying about?

    I'll take his version of events over Molly Bloom's every day of the week.

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    Quote Originally Posted by The Shrink View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by MumblesBadly View Post

    Agreed. The best way to expose a lifelong grifter is get them to willingly spin their lies out for all of the public to hear. Just don’t be a sucker and pay money for any book they package their bullshit in.
    Hold on. You think Houston Curtis is "spinning lies"? He's already openly admitting to doing some very shady things. What's he lying about?

    I'll take his version of events over Molly Bloom's every day of the week.
    Please don't quote mumbles, he gets an erection and molests a kitty every time someone does.

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    Quote Originally Posted by The Shrink View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by MumblesBadly View Post

    Agreed. The best way to expose a lifelong grifter is get them to willingly spin their lies out for all of the public to hear. Just don’t be a sucker and pay money for any book they package their bullshit in.
    Hold on. You think Houston Curtis is "spinning lies"? He's already openly admitting to doing some very shady things. What's he lying about?

    I'll take his version of events over Molly Bloom's every day of the week.
    After listening to the HC interview, I have changed my mind about him being a grifter. By how much he trusted others involved in poker that he did business with who ended up screwing him over, e.g. Russ Hamilton and Tobey McGuire come to mind, it sounds more like he is kind of one of the “nice guys” who got ruthlessly suckers by his supposed “friends”.

    And Molly Bloom sounds like a greedy spoiled b-word who spun a ridiculous tale of her gleaming ethical standards in that now-revealed super fake movie. It kinda makes me wish the movie had ended with the scene were she’s standing next to her car in that super tight micro dress after having the big game taken away from her as a follows: Just as she’s about to get back into her car, a beaten down old work truck comes roaring out of nowhere, horn loudly blaring and highbeams a-glaring, and hits her and the car door at high speed, sending her soon-to-be-corpse (along with the now-detached car door) flying off to land crashing onto the ground by the side of the road. And the taillights of the coup-de-grace vehicle continues away from the scene of not-at-accident, a wild-haired chubby female sticks her body out of the passenger door window and yells out screachingly in a Spanish accent, “Take THAT, you B*TCH, for tryin’ to steal half of my Manny’s hard-earned money!!!”
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    Druff I haven’t listened to radio in well over a year. Anyway, the Curtis interview was very interesting, good work!

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    Great episode. Archives are a must-hear for me.

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    The Molly Bloom book was very different than the movie and seemed honest enough to me.

    I guess she could of lied about how unsavory Tobey was or how the game was "stolen" from her on the west coast but at the end of the day she was indicted federally so she certainly had some or a large role in the whole thing.

    I think she told the truth in the book about most or all things, but the movie was the worst.

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