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[Please sign up for my Relay For Life charity tournament on Full Tilt. It starts just a few hours from when I posted this, at 18:00 ET, Sunday, November 22. It's in the Private Tournament listings, $5 + $5 NLHE, 10 red pros already signed up to play, all rake going to the American Cancer Society. The password is "relay".]

As I mentioned in my previous post, my third rule concerns not letting people use me or my Blog or my contacts for their commercial purposes. Naturally, I make exceptions in many circumstances, but I’ve found my presumptively helpful nature is just an invitation to be abused. The Blog program initially didn’t have any spam filter, so I was inundated with advertisements posing as comments. It didn’t take any great artistry or discretion to delete these, just time. A lot of time.

The Full Tilt tech guys fixed that eventually, so now most of the comments are, in fact, comments. Every so often, though, commenters will toss in some commercial pitch, just to keep me on my toes. My post congratulating Joe Cada on winning the Main Event drew a comment asking JOE for money. Flattered as I was that someone would presume that Joe Cada is reading my blog, I noticed that the guy put in an e-mail address so that anyone else disposed to give away money could also contact him.

I thought his pitch was so entertaining that I’m reprinting it here, minus his e-mail address. Other than that, however, I haven’t changed a word. So if, after reading this, it seems vague to you exactly what this guy is soliciting money FOR, you can be assured that was part of the original message:

Whats Joe,

First Congrats on winning the WSOP ME and I wish you much success

I will be holding a tournament for a very worthly cause it is a charity that is very near and dear to my heart and I am sure since you have grew up in pool halls and starting gambling young as i did and I also am a pro pool player.
The charity has nothing to due with pool but when you get the chance if you can mail me [e-mail address omitted] and i will explain to you more in detail what it is for. The buy-in nor the date and time has not been worked out yet but 50% of the buy-ins will go to the charity. I will like to try to get as many Poker pro’s and well known players to sign up for the tournament so others will want to play. Well thank you and i look forward to hearing from you.

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2 Responses to “#918 – Here’s Another Guy Who Enriched My Life by Begging”

1. playedyou73 Says:
   November 22nd, 2009 at 3:08 pm

   Beggars are just annoying…

   I’m a member on a few poker community websites…and i’ve found its just hard to share (brag,lol) about your victories without some twit private messaging you afterwards begging you for 5 bucks or more..

   One time I had just started an OFC buy in event…and got begged for money from a guy who’s a member of the same community website I was. He thought because we were on the same site…it somehow made us ‘friends’.

   Anyways, I said no, and of course he got rude about it. So I ended up reporting him to FTP support and to the community website. I ‘think’ he might have been chat banned for a little while but he’s still around.

   I used to work with gambling addicts for a living..and the last thing i’m going to do is support someone else’s gambling habit that i don’t even know…who obviously isn’t good enough in poker to invest their own money…so why should i invest/give away my hard earned bankroll

2. Bill Parker Says:
   December 29th, 2009 at 11:51 pm

   I have begged in poker rooms for years and have over 30k to show for it.

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