Interesting Article about El Cap and the a side bet about the TLB race

TomHimself · #1 09-03-2005, 09:38 PM

discuss

CardSharpCook · #2 09-03-2005, 10:02 PM

So it sounds like you have El Capo with 6 players all playing the same account vs JJ (who I assume plays by himself) vs Gigabet (who also seems to play by himself). Some bet. Sounds like a fools bet to me.

Lloyd · #3 09-03-2005, 10:10 PM

Interesting. Didn't know that Colson and Schaefer were in the action as well.

TomHimself · #4 09-03-2005, 10:11 PM

yea its intersting but i dont think bigslick had any idea el capitano account was gonna get pretty much hijacked for the rest of the month.

edit- so the team was
thor
unknown
t soprano
noah
colson
schaefer

did i get it right lol?

Lloyd · #5 09-03-2005, 10:18 PM

I also thought that Marcel Luske and Noah Boeken play under El Capitano.

CardSharpCook · #6 09-03-2005, 10:25 PM

BigSlick got HOSED!!! Basically this was all just a big setup to get 100K out of BS.

Schaefer · #7 09-03-2005, 10:54 PM

I can't say for sure since I didn't originate the bet but I don't think Big Slick got set up at all. I think he learned why you don't make a 100K bet without covering all of your bases first. AND, it's not like El Cap won TLB and Giga came in 2nd. JJ kicked butt and BigSlick's horse was down around 10th. How did BigSlick get HOSED?

Schaefer

Schaefer · #8 09-03-2005, 10:50 PM

Really, El Cap wasn't about battling anyone. The bet had nothing to do with El Cap or JJ winning TLB. It had everything to do with Giga not winning. The whole El Cap thing was just to cover our bases in case JJ fell off and Giga went on a run. Clearly it elevated the level of competition and JJ really stepped up huge. Believe it or not I was rooting hard for him to pull it off and I'm really glad that he did it. Mad props, sir.

Schaefer

davidross · #9 09-03-2005, 11:52 PM

I don't have a problem with people getting fleeced because they made a stupid bet, but I am concerned about the image of impropriety this sends out about online poker. It sure wouldn't take much to spin this so it looks real bad.

Imagine a magazine article describing 6 of the best online players around sharing accounts to win side bets, possible playing on several accounts at the same time, maybe dumping chips to each other. I'm not suggeting any of this happens or happened, but it certainly opens doors for speculation that could do nothing but hurt the game overall.

I guess there is no way to prevent stuff like this, but I sure hope we won't make it so high profile anymore.

MLG · #10 09-03-2005, 11:56 PM

I happen to agree that situations where side bets are much higher in value than the actual tournies being played are open invitations to collusion and other forms of cheating. There was nothing unethical here, but with the money involved if these types of bets continue I fear it wont be long until there is.