#918 – Here’s Another Guy Who Enriched My Life by Begging

[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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