Hello all,
I am going to do my best to answer all the questions that were asked here. I realize that regardless of my answers there will be a certain number of people who don’t believe me or want to troll me, that’s fine. My only focus from this post forward is the future…
Before I get started, let me say that yesterday I was pretty heated and snapped at a few people, didn’t mean to offend cmoney, didn't mean to call cokehead and the like trolls and certainly was never implying there was anything wrong with China’s BAP, that was just a response to it being mentioned…
Also, I have contacted every one of my investors.
Anyway, the questions/comments will be numbered and bold with my answer below; the questions will be paraphrased obviously..
1.)Jasep was evicted….
I was evicted from my very first apartment when I was 19-20 years old, my heat didn’t work and the place that managed the property was unresponsive to my requests, I was young and on my own and didn’t know the proper way to handle these things so I just moved out. Any other eviction is news to me.
2.)Jasep was arrested….
Yes, I was arrested. My daughter’s mother and I went through a messy custody battle and during that time she filed a report where she exaggerated the details of an actual event. In the end I reviewed all of my options with my lawyer and choose the option that we felt would create the least amount of friction in my daughter’s life and would expedite all 3 of us moving on and focusing on raising our kid. I am not going to go into greater detail here because I am not going to publish anything on the internet that speaks negatively of my daughter’s mother. At the time we disliked each other, now we get along very good. I see her twice a week and we communicate on the phone a lot. After the arrest me and her spoke and began working things out in a much more civilized way, my arrest still existed but I am pretty certain that if we had begun the steps to working out our problems much sooner it would have never happened.
3.)Jasep claims to be a 10 year poker pro but has no online stats or a Hendon Mob page?
I have no idea where this even comes from. I do have a Hendon Mob page, as well as a cardplayer page, etc, and I do have online stats, I have said in the past that I only played online minimally and I never really liked it, but I never said I didn’t play online. I was part of a stable of players that was being coached and staked by isport/daaaang. I didn’t get started playing much online until January of 2011, but I played and learned a lot in the time leading up to black Friday, my stars name was TrupQQ, you can go ahead and find me on OPR. Also, I have a page on the WPT site from a 10k I played and didn’t cash in 2005. The fact is 90% of the poker I have played over the last 12 years isn’t tracked by websites, I have traveled to play but most of my poker has been played at Foxwoods, Mohegan Sun and Private rooms in CT and RI. I never claimed to be anything that I am not, walk in to any poker room and you can point to a dozen or more guys who have no online presence but have been earning a living playing poker for decades. Anyone who has frequented either of the two major poker rooms that I play in will 100% recognize me.
4.)There is no way to track his results so obviously he is lying to his backers or shaving.
The entire project was outlined in advance and everyone knew there was going to be a huge amount of trust involved in participating, no one was ever under the impression that this would happen any other way and everyone who invested must have been comfortable with this. I filmed every day that I played, I am not an award winning actor, I am an honest person. Everything I reported is the truth and not one nickel was shaved, my backers had the option to decide if taking my word was good enough for them and everyone decided that it was, yesterday they were all given the option to again take my word and I will have no hard feelings if anyone chooses not to.
5.)Jasep didn’t play the schedule lined out and makes excuse after excuse.
This is kind of hyperbolic, but yeah I substituted days and times that were not originally part of the plan but were done in the best interest of all of us. I have always been very vulnerable to feeling shitty after spending some time away from a poker room and then going back with regularity. I am on the exact pace that my schedule originally called for and on days when I was sick or not feeling great the decision to not play and make the day up was made in the best interest of all of us. I am not going to go chunk off money simply because it is written on a schedule. I make decisions to protect my financial interests as well as my investors, everyone has to trust that if I miss a day there is a good reason for it and we are all better off if I don’t play that day. I became a poker player for the freedom it allows me, that freedom includes not playing if I feel like I will be at a disadvantage that day. With that said, I now have a regular schedule in mind taking in all the information I gathered in the last month and that schedule should be stuck to completely unless there are events going on that will create more value for us.
6.)Your last name isn’t even Sep…
I have never hidden my name from anyone, Sep is a shortened version of my name that I have been called pretty much since birth, my full last name is long and almost everyone says or spells it incorrectly, the 100 or so people that I have done paypal transactions with are all privy to my last name. My screen name was never even intended to be pronounced “JaySep” it was always intended to be J.A.Sep with my first and middle initial… Also my birth name wasn’t John, I am Hispanic, my birth name was Juan, I changed this in 2007 because literally no one ever called me Juan and I hate the name and changing it made me happy.
7.)I was not able to find property in your name!!!
So? I own 25% of a business that at one time owned 3 restaurants, 2 bars and a bunch of rental properties. Today that business owns one rental property and we sold everything else for profit over the course of the last 7 years. I don’t really see how its relevant but the restaurants names have been published and if any of my investors would like more details I would be happy to provide them privately.
8.)Jasep is such a degenerate; his daughter doesn’t even have health insurance…
This isn’t true, my daughter has tremendous health insurance through her mother’s job and every member of my current household has health insurance except me. There is a reasonable chance that I get married in the next 12-24 months and at that point I will have health insurance as well. Also, I don’t pit or slot gamble and if I am not in a game you can generally find me on my laptop or reading one of the free magazines, not firing away at the roulette table with bad intentions.
9.)Jasep is going underground now that everyone knows he is a scammer…
I am just as above ground as I have always been and I am not and never have been a scammer. Everyone who has invested in project Sep has 4 or 5 ways to get in touch with me including 2 phone numbers etc. if any of them ask they can also have my home address, I am not running or hiding from anything. I may take a break from radio for a week or 2 to find a new co-host and make some changes to VPR or I may do a shortened show this week but I will be back doing it as I always have.
10.)Mark and Brandon left VPR because of this…
You have to ask those guys their reasons for leaving and it is up to them if they want to share them with you. Like I said in the other thread, I consider both of them friends and have no hard feelings with them leaving and I wish them nothing but the best.
I think that covers everything, I may have missed some questions, there is a lot of garbage in this thread. The main point that I want to get across is that I have been in communication with all of my backers and no one has been victimized or ripped off and I am more than willing to talk with any of them about it for as long as they need and give them whatever resolution they are comfortable with.
Now, my job is to go play poker, and do the things I said I was going to do, I am going to play tomorrow, Wednesday and Thursday. And then I will be back on my updated regular schedule. So far my investors are solidly behind me and that is good enough for me. The results of this project will speak for themselves. Anyone is welcome to PM me on VPR if they have any questions.
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Originally Posted by Cokehead
