Cheating on the gulf coast

For the record I have no personal knowledge to suggest this guy Cody was or is cheating.

I stand by what I said about my concerns from what I experienced in Biloxi. There was really no connection whatsoever with this stable as far as I could know.

I shouldn't have jumped to conclusions making a connection to this stable as it's possible the two things could be completely unrelated.

I started playing live and have always preferred it. You're making assumptions. I also stated my motivations early on in that I think poker had gotten really shady as of late and it makes me sick. I've never made any claims of cheating as the worst I've said is the situation is suspect but not necessarily for reasons others do.

It doesn't matter who these dudes are and the fact you so adamantly defend this guy sounds a little weird.
i Said what you're saying is full of ****, not attacking you personally. Yours and others behavior has been quite strange. The kid is clearly shady in more ways than one and you all so vehemently defending him like he's your child looks horrible for him and whoever you are. Stables are terrible for poker and shilling for bitcoins that lose others money is bad business.

Sure you just blanket cast suspicion on an entire crew of people over something you could have addressed at the very time it happened. Then blanket insulted every person that has worked any event in the south... but yea you are just here for a discussion.... yea eat a dick bud

You again. No I'm not insulting everyone that worked that event! I said there were two dealers I suspected of cheating out of probably 200.

If you were one of those two then you can take it that I'm insulting you!

If you're an honest dealer please don't fall for this blame the victim crap. If all the dealers are placed under scrutiny, it's the fault of the dealers cheating in their midst. It's not the fault of the people outing them.

Yet you associate with Maurice Hawkins. You can throw around all the cliches you want like "with success comes hate" but do you really have to wonder why you have a hard time making a decent percentage of the poker community believe and find you credible when allegations are hurled your way when you are connected to somebody like him

very possible.

however, i will point out that if he invested $80,000 as the token went live at its "IPO" price and he posted a couple days later that he had 27x his money, that would be well over 2 million dollars on paper.

Fun thread. Whoever said it reminds them of rec poker, yeah. Get Russ G in here.

So this dude associates with Hawkins. Maybe broke the law (IANAL) to pump and dump a fraud coin, but was completely innocent because he had no idea such things occurred. Definitely breaks the law and is willing to risk prison to fleece people with an illegal sports book, but didn't do anything wrong there either and heck, that's no different than rolling through a stop sign. We are all just as guilty as he is. Plays as part of a team. Has a bunch of random new accounts show up to tell us what a great guy he is and they don't mind losing to a team at all. Says over and over again what a great guy he is, a family man and says things like "my truth" when making disingenuous arguments.

But the one thing he would absolutely never do is collude with his team at the poker table, which carries no risk whatsoever. He'll be happy to take Joe's retirement fund in an illegal book making operation, again, risking prison. He'll tell Joe to buy a fraud coin, which is really no different from suggesting someone buy his wife's craftwork, you know. He'll form a team to play against Joe at the table. But for the same team to do something legal and risk free to gain an edge at the table? Totally unthinkable.

My guess is that the kind of mind that thinks an illegal book making operation is just like rolling through a stop sign, and pumping and dumping a coin is just like posting about your wife's craft business also thinks colluding with your team in tournaments is just like a husband and wife soft playing each other at 1/2.

That's the most suspicious thing here, and certainly my impression as well.

But if that's the most suspicious thing, we probably shouldn't be talking about this at all.

Funny thing is probably no one would be talking about it if they didn’t bump the thread with all the fake account posts. I never clicked on this thread before because I assumed it was about cheating in some Alabama house game or something.

it's more amusing to me that a bunch of brand new posters all type in a similar style and a bunch use the same term "competitor" which isn't commonly used in poker. A good rule of thumb is when a bunch of new accounts are all defending someone those new accounts are that someone.

The entire thing with stables in general stinks. You have to be extremely naive to think most if not all stables aren't cheating in some way especially in tournaments because of diminishing returns on chips and how valuable just staying alive is.

I've never played in the gulf coast but obviously the games are super soft if a braindead piece of human garbage like Maurice Hawkins has done well there.

After reading through this thread it's obvious something stinks.

All of these people being "fierce competitors" and top notch players- yet despite playing poker for years in super soft games/events basically none of them have any money so they're all staked in very small buy in events which makes no sense at all if it's on the up and up.

If they're such crushers they'd have money and wouldn't be playing on stake like this. So what motivation would they really have to play under the same bankroll?
The fact Maurice does well there and nowhere else, same as these other people makes it pretty obvious it's some kind of "club" you're either in and playing with the team or you're out and playing on your own against the team.

I've seen this type of **** before both live and online. You're new to the site/poker room and people realize you know what you're doing so they'll pull you aside and want you to join them.
That makes way more sense to be playing on a shared bankroll in small buy in events than people are crushers, playing on the up and up yet they have no money.

If you're at a final table with a bunch of people playing on the same bank roll you're getting cheated- period. They might be nice and charming (and a lot of hustlers are both of these things) but they at minimum definitely want to keep each other afloat as long as possible and knock you out. That doesn't mean all groups will be as ruthless, or cheat the same. It doesn't mean it will be obvious. It also doesn't mean one will never knock the other out, but you're a HUGE disadvantage. They can't just fold to each other every single time but calling sometimes and putting the shorter stack at risk doesn't mean the play is on the level.

Additionally even if someone is good at poker but a complete degenerate gambler so they're often broke, they'd still be playing high buy in events after big scores outside of this small area and because they're good should have success at some point. Degenerates don't stay in small areas and stick to small buy ins when they come into money because they're big on game selection. They're also way more susceptible to be willing to cheat to stay in action.

Things just don't add up overall at all.

On the comedy side we have hendon mob mentioned a few times- which is something scammers love to bring up to naive potential backers. Anyone who understand poker and what hendon is knows the site is a joke and only lists gross cashes so it's meaningless. We also had a couple of lol bracelets mentioned as though that's a barometer at to whether or not someone is good at poker.

It's amazing how these wizards who crush poker and have such impressive lol hendon pages can't buy in to 500 dollar circuit events on their own dime.
I sure wish I had a hendon with a bunch of cashes instead of being able to play poker with my own money.

"random" people.

yea I carefully worded that lol, I'm happy at least someone can recognize the absurdity that I can clearly see

this so much, i never met cody but this is a terrible look with all these brand new accounts appearing out of nowhere to defend lolololol

best way to clear your name here is provide the wallet info where people can see the history of transactions where you put in 80k and lost it

we're not even halfway through and reached peak lol

Gotta put my foot down for Cody here. Seems like almost every anon acct hasn’t actually met him in real life. He’s one of the best gamblers I’ve ever know, but he also has a heart of GOLD. He takes a lot of shots (36 in the Biloxi opener as you all know lol) but he’s also very diversified and calculated.

Sometimes his heart mixes deep into his calculations and guess what… he’s human. Y’all wanna judge him for the crypto and/or Maurice? Well, he took a calculated risk in those spots. Sometimes it works out and sometimes it doesn’t. But you know what? He’s done well in life bc he’s willing to take those risks, knowing the upside and downside.

Speculating about someone you’ve never met and blindly jumping on his back with pitch forks is wild to me. Meet him in person sometime. Play poker with him sometime. He’ll read right through your soul and might just take all your money. But I guarantee he’s gonna buy you dinner afterwards.

What’s ironic is the only offering their real names are the people willing to vouch for those accused by the anons.

New accounts? Well, I’m 36 and haven’t been on this site for over a decade. Couldn’t remember my original account/password so had to make a new one when this thread popped up. Probably the same for most people we know in the south.

#occamsrazor

Before you criticize, do. Just try it out sometime. See how easy it is to sustain a family playing poker for a living. There’s so much you’re missing.

Maurice? One of the best live circuit players by far. Not saying I’d ever back him, but you’re incredibly misguided by calling him “brain dead”. Play with him sometime.

Instead of jumping on the bandwagon do a little research. Everyone accused here has been successful at all stakes all around the country. Sure, we don’t consistently play high rollers for 10-15% of our action against the best players in the world. Wanna know why? BRM.

You don’t have to be broke to be backed. You just have to be smart enough to not go broke. Especially when you have a family to support. It’s actually that simple.