https://twitter.com/PuntingStacks/status/1701121589948157960
I wonder if this will be played on Vertucci's show today.
It has not been publicly released yet, and I never heard all of this the first time around.
https://twitter.com/PuntingStacks/status/1701121589948157960
I wonder if this will be played on Vertucci's show today.
It has not been publicly released yet, and I never heard all of this the first time around.
Nick gets the people around him to invest in someones fake cancer scam, take no accountability, and then uses the publicity around the scam as an opportunity to tweet out click bait thumbnails.Originally Posted by Dan Druff
Sounds perfectly in line with everything the Nick Vertucci is.
I know all the PFA listeners and readers know the Druff is extremely detailed in both his writings & radio segments. Well …Vertucci is not a details guy. I know it seems like I’m always hammering him here but he releases this video today that gives us absolutely nothing new. Just total click bait bullshit.
Really….nothing new. Around 7:00 he even says he doesn’t really know what the donations were because he “wasn’t in charge of the gofundme”. Nick, the GoFundme accounted for around 12K. The vast majority of the money was given directly to him separate of that by a lot of your friends.
There is a massive edit at 7:28. Maybe he was going to give some detail and decided against it.
Details about Blank Check Ben? No. Anything about how the complaining about the Bellagio Suite went down? No. Just as Nick would say a total “Nothing Burger”. He really speaks a lot without saying much. Which is why he was so good at what he did before. But that isn’t going to get people to tune into a podcast. People want the real deal. This is simply a summary of what we already knew weeks ago. Druff’s radio segment covered all of this.
Just kind of to prove a point Nick did a podcast with Nik Airball click baited is “Airball Broke?” Spoiler alert…he’s not. Nick thought this was going to break the internet and no one gave a shit. Airball is so overexposed at this point people are so over it. But when that podcast didn’t break the internet all of a sudden poker news did a advertorial and some other poker “news” site I never even heard of wrote an article. I suppose that is why Nick is releasing this video weeks too late. He’s clearly very frustrated with the numbers the podcast is doing.
Sorry to say this isn’t even worth a listen.
Nick no one gives a shit man. Another advertorial with no engagement.
https://twitter.com/highstakesdb/status/1703778653153161363
I lost interest in the Nik Airball show.
Everything with him is a cry for attention. There's no way to determine what is real and what is fake regarding him.
The only thing clear is that he has access to a lot of cash, presumably from a trust fund or inheritance.
In his whole feud with Garrett, it was hard to root for anyone. You had a phony attention whore trying to play the role of livestream villain versus a phony attention whore trying to play the role of Mr. Clean.
I don’t have to listen to this to tell you there’s nothing new in it. Vertucci making the rounds. You would think he’s got a movie coming out.
https://twitter.com/TeamPokerFlops/status/1704148793246019656
Good news. Hopefully he can go home and have some normalcy soon.
https://twitter.com/CodyDaniels88/status/1704226183200850161
Hilarious that he had an air mattress brought in. I guess the hospital bed was uncomfortable. Never seen that before.
But yeah, I saw that earlier and was very happy to see it ended up okay. The "things are going the wrong direction, I'm on a breathing machine" post, followed by silence, was very ominous.
Went with the old bloody nips story. Def didn’t see that one coming.
https://twitter.com/PuntingStacks/status/1704549217719697768
SO basically, this dipshit self-diagnosed himself. How fucking stupid can you be. Doctors probably wish WebMD and other sites didn't exist for strictly the hey Doc I think I'm dying morons out there. Dude clearly has major mental issues. If he dies more likely it'll be because he offed himself or is the new PC term Unalive wtf seriously.
‘What I did was wrong’: Poker player lied about having cancer to play in WSOP Main Event
https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports...event-2907765/
Mercer received donations estimated to be valued between $30,000 to $50,000, including a suite at Bellagio in July during the WSOP.
That includes $2,500 he was given by Cody Daniels, a chronically ill poker player from Lake Havasu City, Arizona, who was similarly staked into the Main Event.
Mercer confirmed he was contacted by a representative from GoFundMe for violating its terms of service. He said has no plans to repay the money since he believes he has undiagnosed breast cancer and the donations were made because he was sick.
LOL.
Gofundme refunding everyone, I'm guessing because of the LVRJ article revealing that he admitted to them that the terminal cancer was fake.
I actually predicted this earlier today:
https://twitter.com/ToddWitteles/status/1704529509440172104
https://twitter.com/daniel_shak/status/1704693020703252847
Now TMZ is covering it.
https://www.tmz.com/2023/09/20/poker...nt-apologizes/
Unfortunately, the Vallejo police (where Mercer lives) refused to open a case about it, incorrectly calling it a "civil matter".
I encourage anyone who donated to Rob to go to their own local PD and report it, especially if you live in California. Anyone who didn't donate to him cannot report it, as they were not victims.
Perhaps I'll call Vallejo PD tomorrow and see if I can get a lieutenant or captain on the phone, and alert them to the LVRJ and TMZ articles. Sometimes these police departments will respond to potential bad press.
I did nott screenshot it but I do remember Benjamin Lee (Blank Check Ben) donated almost 6K in his name on the GoFundme. Pretty dam close to half the money. I know in his tweet he said he and his friends donated something like 13K total. Still nice to get half of it back.
There are plenty of things wrong with GoFundMe but at least there is a trail. Those who gave wads of cash for him to go balls deep with the Pai Gow really got punished. Maybe another lesson is if someone needs a main event buyin…in the future maybe get them the 10K and some reasonable expense money or accommodations. No need for the degen wads to ignite in the pit.
100% agree.
What annoys me about Gofundme, and fundraisers for individuals in general, is that it becomes an exercise in virtue signaling and less about getting someone the help they need.
When fundraising drives widely exceed the person's stated need, then the money is just being wasted and might as well go elsewhere. The problem is that people donate over the needed amount because they want to feel like they helped, too. That's why some of these well-publicized Gofundmes have raised hundreds of thousands when the person is asking for orders of magnitude less. The best known one was the generous gas station bum, and that entire thing ended up being a hoax for the purposes of duping the internet into funding all of their lifestyles.
I've always made sure that in the few cases where PFA is raising money for someone, we do it up to the amount needed and then stop. For example, when we raised the $1500 for AHoosierA's legal defense fund, I promised that we would stop raising money at $1500, which was his verified legal bill.
Even if Mercer was telling the truth about the terminal cancer, the proper amount to raise would be $10k plus reasonable travel/hotel expenses, and that's it. No Bellagio suites, no money for the pits, no former porn star hookers, no lavish meals. You want to have a drive to sponsor you for the Main? Great, but your expenses to play it shouldn't be any more than mine, were I pay my own way and stick to the essentials.
Not sure why people kept lavishing money beyond the $12k he asked for. What did they expect he'd do with it? Why was it surprising to see him degenning it off in the pits?
That's actually kind of interesting because I don't know that charges strictly have to be based on the location of the perpetrator. The first thing that comes to mind is that the people who were defrauded could see if they can file charges against him in their own jurisdictions. I'm obviously not a lawyer, much less a prosecutor, but I think there's also the possibility for Federal Wire Fraud if there was anything by way of interstate (he and sender being in different states) transactions.
Don't Tread on Anyone, mothafucka!
100% federal charges could happen here, but it's hard to get the FBI to start cases.That's actually kind of interesting because I don't know that charges strictly have to be based on the location of the perpetrator. The first thing that comes to mind is that the people who were defrauded could see if they can file charges against him in their own jurisdictions. I'm obviously not a lawyer, much less a prosecutor, but I think there's also the possibility for Federal Wire Fraud if there was anything by way of interstate (he and sender being in different states) transactions.
Better off with the local PD and go from there.
Made Los Angeles TV news:
https://twitter.com/1350leather/status/1704926356075880525
This story is blowing up all over the country.
Mercer is such a moron. If he just vanished after his first rambling explanation failed, none of this would be happening. I have no idea what he thought he'd accomplish by admitting guilt to Cody Daniels and then to the Las Vegas Review Journal. The LVRJ part was dumbest, as this allowed other mainstream news sources around the country to pick it up and reference them, without fear of being sued.
I agree. I suppose that it's good that everyone who did the GoFundMe is getting a refund. I guess civil suits for anything that didn't take place on GoFundMe/wasn't refunded might be theoretically possible, as well, but that would depend on applicable laws in the jurisdiction; more than that, it's hard to say whether or not Mercer would ever be capable of paying a judgment against him anyway.100% federal charges could happen here, but it's hard to get the FBI to start cases.
Better off with the local PD and go from there.
As far as Federal goes---it's a slam dunk (provided anything was interstate) if they wanted to pursue it. Mercer has already confessed---twice. On the other hand, there's no real point in pursuing it if he's not going to do time and I don't think him doing time really accomplishes anything aside from wasting Government resources. Not to mention the trial, public defender, etc. Maybe some attorney would offer to defend him, pro bono, seeing the potential media coverage as payment (advertising) in itself.
As far as civil cases go for GoFundMe, I'm not certain that one could still be brought since those donators were made whole. GoFundMe itself isn't actually out much aside from the small(ish) cut of everything they take in and processing fees on the refunds, so I doubt they'd go after Mercer civilly. I guess they're out the money---but that's nothing for them and going after Mercer would keep the bad publicity going more.
I just yanked this off Google, so it's not an advertisement for this law firm (that I haven't even heard of before just now) whatsoever, but:
https://www.bochettoandlentz.com/cri...ts-difference/
It seems to me to be a cut and dry civil fraud case for anyone who did anything off of GoFundMe and incurred actual material losses in so doing. Evidence? Well, Mercer has twice admitted guilt. To me, the only question would be whether or not an attorney would be willing to take it on a contingency fee basis, which could depend on the potential monetary judgment and whether or not the attorney thinks Mercer would be capable of eventually satisfying (read: paying) the judgment.
Don't Tread on Anyone, mothafucka!
Snoopdoug and Cody Daniels featured in this news report.
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