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Mike Caro

Was looking at some HendonMob lists and saw that Roland de Wolfe is still #15 on the UK list despite his last cash being in 2010. He was 26yo at that time (now 39).

I see a couple people have asked about him in this thread, and I just found this interview from late 2022:

Part 1 of 4:

Part 2: https://youtu.be/oac9UUbTXhM

Part 3: https://youtu.be/bzeFLaqizzw

Part 4: https://youtu.be/jH64qMcvW2w

does anyone know if clanty is still active on GG?

Scott Fischman

Cool thanks. Would swear he was older than that. Sure I was watching him when I first started playing when I was ~15, but he's only a couple of years older than me.

He’s looking well

I have many irl mutuals with him, he quit poker for a number of reasons firstly his family are relatively well off and left him and his brother a business, I believe he lost his parents, secondly he was part of an allegeded 'cheating' scandal in a big private live game in London. I'm not sure he cheated hwoever as the guy who lodged the complaint was a massive whale, a criminal and a gambling degenerate and there was no need to cheat him, so I doubt that's even true. I dont know why he seemingly fell off the scene, unless he went busto betting sports etc (no idea if thats true etc)

in my experience, allegations/suspicion of cheating in high stakes private games are nearly always correct

first year of poker was 99% private games and I saw enough shenanigans to migrate over to regulated environments only

not saying he cheated - but when you're hosting a game and there's thousands of dollars to be had freely at <1% risk of getting caught (and honestly, what's the worst result of getting caught? very little) then at some point you're going to start scooping up the free money

I also have a lot of experience and I know him/the people he played with on some level, even if mutual but I dont really have any alliance with him to stick uo for him. They didnt need to cheat this guy, he was giving it away. https://www.cardplayer.com/poker-news/17...

See here do you think you need to cheat vs someone like this? https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-...

fair enough, thanks for sharing the articles, given that it happened at a regulated environment i would agree he did not cheat, however, I can see him and the other guy softplaying each other ats they are there for the whale's money not to battle each other - but that's just kind of the nature of those games

like i said i have no dog in this fight

but i just want to iterate because my autism won't allow otherwise, that private games are shady af

my career started in a place with no casinos anywhere nearby that had dozens of private games

every single private game I ever played in above 1-2 eventually got busted cheating or had a postle like situation where some guys just never made bad river decisions ever and/or at least 1-2 cold decks each night of someone flopping a boat vs flopped quads but there wasn't proof but it was well beyond the standard variance of the game and literally always the same 2-3 benefactors each time

i've personally witnessed a lot of cheating and seen lots of players who weren't even hosting the game get caught cheating

there's multiple companies that produce cheating equipment disguised as everyday products from kitty cat clocks to microwaves to money counters using tech to cheat in addition to standard sleight of hand and cold deck insertion

even in the mayfair club in nyc, they had a rule that anyone could ask for the deck to cut at any moment, even mid deal, this was because there were so many mechanics in the games, my roomate at the time was the younger brother of a professional magician and thus spent a lot of time growing up being taught card tricks - this guy, who was just a hobbyist but had put in the hours, could shuffle a deck right in front of you, in full sight, telling you he's actively setting a deck so he's going to get aces and you're going to get kings, you're watching his every move and trying to see how and where he does it, you don't see a single thing out of the ordinary, he is shuffling no differently then how anyone else shuffles, even with cutting the deck (which I would do) he would deal AA vs KK every time - it was insane to see how easily he could get away with it

i've even advocated we not ban certain cheats (boy was i dumb and naive back then) because they were such big whales that they lost heavily despite occasionally cheating - i remember how badly i advocated that we not ban a certain movie producer because that guy literally opened 17x every time he played a hand and would then take a check/call stategy post flop where he'd call down super light - he was an absolute money printer for me and without that guy, i genuinely may have never made enough money when i first started playing to realize i could make a living off of doing this

i advocated so hard for that guy "oh well he got caught and learned his lesson, he won't do it again and we now know what to look for" and in hindsight am now very happy i was ignored

even with the unraked and unhosted 1-2 games i played at bars, i had to make a habit of cashing out before the game broke because there was always, and I mean always a chip:bank differential at the end of the night where there would be about $80 or so more chips than money in the pot

at first we thought oh just a 4 beer mistake where someone miscounted, but then it's every night, so then we think perhaps people are sneaking over and adding chips or sneaking money out of the pot or lying about how many chips they had at cashout

so we introduce lockboxes for both the chips and the cash, we make sure all cashouts are verified, the problem still remains, nobody can figure it out at all

it's only after another dozen sessions or so do we realize that the chips at the bar have been increasing over time, we discover this because they no longer fit in all the cases and there's overflow

some enterprising individual went out and bought the same kind of chips used at this bar at the store and each time he played would show up with a few in his pocket and discreetly add them to his stack

so... i'm just saying, in my experience, the longer a private game runs, the likelihood of cheating taking place gets closer to 100%, maybe they weren't even targeting that guy specifically but others, maybe they didn't cheat him at all, or maybe they figured "why allow him to win that 30% of the time a fish will win naturally when we can take him for all he's worth?"

that's the thing about cheating scandals, nearly all the ones that get busted get busted because they got too greedy and took things too far to where it was impossible to not realize what was going on - just look at postle, if he just eased off the gas and earned 2/3 of what he did and didn't exploit for the max each hand he'd still be getting away with cheating today casually bringing in low 6 figures in winnings each year

same with potripper

same with moneytaker69

same with the recent mars la cheating

you can't simply apply logic and wash away accusations because history has shown time and time again that cheaters will defy all logic

the only reason why i can dismiss those allegations are because they happened in a regulated casino, if they happened at a private game then I would instantly believe that roland was cheating

Yeah i get you. I could reel off loads of stories too, I dont trust anyone. We are in agreement and I dont have a dog in the roland fight either, I just think the ev was so high he didnt need to, maybe he did who knows/cares. It is odd he left poker, most people who have their **** together dont ever leave completely. The only ones who do, go busto first and it scares them so they get, I assume he mustve lost his ass prior to moving on.

Raptor was a big part of Durrrr's up bringing in the poker world and they always seemed like closish friends. After peter jetten came out ragging on Dwan im curious what Raptor has been up to and if he has anything to say?

I'm gonna guess he's in the same spot as CTS and Jmo

Where did Raptor discover the strategy he taught dwan? That was pretty new thinking back in those days. Where would he come up with such a strategy in 2005?

Whatever happened to ... the Brandon Adams tweet post Black Friday where he confidently asserted FTP would be fine because they were run by more honorable people than PokerStars?

I will never forget it.

What happened to Tobias Reinkemeier? Just retired?

Some type of therapist, just google his name.

I think a bunch of those guys for the German crew who were playing with 5% of themselves gave it up years ago.

You're not getting confused with this Tobias?

Karina and Chip Jett sighting on American Idol...I can still remember Karina running around the Mirage poker room in the mid 90's before the poker boom along with Matusow, Negreanu, etc...crazy how time flies

Good to see Karina & Chip are still together, looks like they've raised some great kiddos too.

What happened to Dream Crusher? I saw he was banned but not sure why.

I think it's pretty easy to guess why.

I saw Fabian Quoss on the chip counts page of either a WSOP event in the summer or that big WPT championship a few months ago. Can't remember. I wouldn't have even remembered him if I didn't see it. I remember him being a pretty good player back in the 2012-2014 EPT glory days

Didn't everyone learn from CTS?

People made a bunch of money early and quit to do something else with their life. Germany is one of the countries where gambling is even less socially acceptable than in the US and thanks to free college there was zero benefit to dropping out while pursuing poker back in the day. So a lot of guys eventually got their advanced degree (took me almost a decade) which set them up to go a different route.