Poker Player Brad Booth stole ~$28,000 from Me
I recently had the misfortune of coming across brad booth via one of my friends. He was playing in some of the higher stakes games at the wynn, and Brad told him that he was looking to get back into playing online. At the time he had something like $50,000 on him, as a rough estimate that I was given by my friend. My friend had been hanging out with him a bit outside of poker and they had gotten dinner several times. I was relayed the information that Brad Booth was looking for a transfer for lock poker. I asked him if he thought it was safe to transfer. He told me that he wasnt really sure, but that Brad did have a lot of money on him so it seemed like it would be ok. With this information I sent Brad $13,000 online for what was presumably $13,000 cash. He wanted more, but i declined as i was looking to limit my risk.
Brad then gave my friend an envelope with $13,000 cash, which was given to me. Then Brad asked if he could get a bigger transfer. It seemed to me like it was safer, with the first transfer being successful. At this point he asked for ~$30,000, which I sent him online. Several days later, when we were trying to reach an agreement on when to meet up and transfer, he told me the unfortunate news via text message. The messages are long and rambly, but we eventually agreed to meet up and discuss things. When we met up, he told me the unsettling news of many of his other debts, how little money he has, and the inside scoop on many additional things. I told him if he continues to work with me and stay in contact, and make some small payments at a time, that we can work things out. He agreed, and a week later made me a payment of $2,200. However since then, he has left the country, changed his phone number, and has started completely ignoring me.
Im not really looking for sympathy, its a ****ty situation and I wish things hadnt gone this direction. I am very unfamiliar with the live poker arena, and i have now been informed this is somewhat standard for Brad. I guess i made a mistake in trusting someone because i had seen them play in "high stakes" poker and had heard he had money on him.
I know of many of Brads Debts, and i have some other information about him as well. I also have our complete text message log. Unless Brad finds a way to get into contact with me I will be releasing this information. I feel like this should have happened a long time ago, but many people worried about not seeing payment havent come out and outed him. Im not going to take this approach. Brad is a scammer and a thief, and if this had happened earlier perhaps it would of saved me $27,800, so hopefully if this saves someone else some money, then its worth it.
Brad Booth was seen playing online ~2 weeks later at 10/20 plo on stars. I can only imagine something similar had happened in that scenario. He was also playing with me in some of the las vegas games with money that he had on a stake, while he owed me the money. Any information that can be offered as to the whereabouts or contact information that results in me seeing additional money back will not go unrewarded.
I want my money Brad, and im not going to just stay quiet until i am paid or the world knows what a scumbag you truly are.
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Where is Brad now? Last I saw him he was playing at Peppermill a bunch
With all Doug's success now it's funny to look back and seeing him do stupid **** like sending Brad Booth 13k on Lock poker.
he's at GSR some days
I was the one who reported Brad missing. We lived together for about a year, I REGRETFULLY loaned him money so he could get his life together on the promise he would pay it back. His car was repossessed about a month after he came to my house. I let him use my Toyota Tacoma while he "worked" and looked for another vehicle. One day he said he was going camping and asked to take my truck for a couple days. He loaded it up with camping gear and that was the last I ever heard from him. He literally left everything he owned (clothes, gun, personal documents like birth certificate etc) at my house, which is why I thought something bad happened to him. But nope. He just stole my truck and money, and there wasn't anything I could do about it. Oregon police found him a few months after the police report was made, but they let him go because they didn't know he was driving a stolen truck. Any woman who gets suckered into Brad's sorry excuse for a life should immediately call the cops and run the other way. He will never pay back any of his debts, and he will ALWAYS BE A LOSER.
If he spent the last 20 years working he probably could have paid the money back lol
I was the one who reported Brad missing. We lived together for about a year, I REGRETFULLY loaned him money so he could get his life together on the promise he would pay it back. His car was repossessed about a month after he came to my house. I let him use my Toyota Tacoma while he "worked" and looked for another vehicle. One day he said he was going camping and asked to take my truck for a couple days. He loaded it up with camping gear and that was the last I ever heard from him. He literally
Sorry man. Hope you get your Tacoma back
How do you know he wants his Tacoma back when he didn't give any indication that that's a high priority oh wait never mind carry on
Reading this thread reminds me of a couple times I got scammed. Worst was by someone I played high school sports with, I hadn’t seen him in several years and we ran into each other in a private game. He seemed like he was a good player and having a good time, had a good apartment and was a 5/10 reg at a local casino. I told him I was going to the WSOP and asked if he wanted to come with me, he said sure so we went and had a fun few weeks I think he won or lost a few thousand overall during it, can’t remember, we mostly just played cash games.
A few weeks after we came back he called me and told me this story, that he’d crashed his car after having an epileptic seizure, he ended up with a fat hospital bill, lost his drivers license, and lost his bankroll dealing with it all. He asked if he could roommate with me for awhile and if I could stake him so he could build his bankroll back up while he looked for regular work. I said sure, no problem.
Fast forward like 5 months later he’s $15k in makeup, no job, and three months back on rent. I told him I had to cut him off and he flipped his ****. I was talking to another player I knew and he was like I thought you knew about that guy, he’s a scammer, I was like wdym. Turns out he was never an epileptic at all, he’d crashed his car 2 years before that while drunk and lost his license, and he’d collectively scammed players in that private game out of close to $100k with different stories like he needed money for surgery, or his mom had cancer, or whatever, all of it bullshit. Apparently one of the times I staked him he just went to another more shady private game and bought drugs and a hooker with the stake and texted me a picture of felt at an empty table and told me he’d lost the stake and to add it to the makeup. Honestly that one is kind of funny now thinking about it.
^^puke^^
Hate hearing stories like this, so many scammers out there thus why I never borrow or lend
as the saying goes, no good deed goes unpunished
Did brad booth pay a higher % of his debt than coinflex? Should be clsoe
Up a Tacoma, down a Tacoma
Whatever happened to that PSUMike that used to scam at the airport? This story reminds me of that.
Whatever happened to that PSUMike that used to scam at the airport? This story reminds me of that.
Let's remember a moment!
Allen Kessler: "My friend Mikey has a gambling problem, but he doesn't need to stop gambling, he just needs to only gamble at games that are beatable, and I'll stake him for it!"
Apparently one of the times I staked him he just went to another more shady private game and bought drugs and a hooker with the stake and texted me a picture of felt at an empty table and told me he’d lost the stake and to add it to the makeup. Honestly that one is kind of funny now thinking about it.
LMAO, it is very funny. But sucks that you got scammed. I feel like almost every poker player gets scammed at some point.
