Topic: Poker
Note: If you're not a regular visitor to the Gutshot club or its website, then the following will make little sense to you. Normal service will be resumed tomorrow.
Observant followers of the Gutshot forum will have noticed that I have not posted since the end of February. That was the moment when I realised that the fun had been squeezed out of it, for myself and several friends, by a relentless tide of nastiness from one rather sad individual. Since my withdrawal, others have been on the receiving end of the abuse. Here is a piece of world-beating hypocrisy and stupidity from a March 27th entry concerning my friend Allan Engel:
'Evil Engel thinks he's the Lone Ranger with Willy Purle, Plug and Comic Boy fighting wrong wherever it is typed on a forum. Of course logging in under a false name and abusing Gutshot and Mr Lloyd is all part of noble fight....
Got that? Allan Engel is a Lone Ranger, along with three other people!??! And isn't it awful that he posts under an alias? Who does such a thing?
Matters reached a new low yesterday when this person said this concerning 'Catman':
'Catman tells us this just before a photo of the famed Marbella Fiasco, a delight indeed as he breaks down like a little girl who lost her parents.'
He's talking about the a Channel Four documentary in which Catman did indeed break down ... rather like a grown man who had lost his parents. Both died in the year prior to filming and that was made clear in the programme. His father had in fact committed suicide following the death of Catman's mother. Hardly comic material.
I made Gutshot aware of this and the offending material was removed. But now this troll is claiming that it never happened. Specifically he writes:
I have never made snide remarks about the death of anyones parents on an internet forum. You accuse me of something that has already been sorted out by The Catman and Baby in private.
Judge for yourself. By the way, if anyone is prepared to crawl through the sewer that this person's posting history, let me know if you find a post that contains any poker content at all. There might be one, but I can't think of any from memory. Don't get your hopes up.
And don't expect consistency either. That March 27th entry informs Allan: 'I granted Mr Young a truce a while ago, something it looks like you don't know about, he's free to post without mocking by me. If he does not want to, thanks for the memories.'
Allan was indeed aware of what I had been told. But he correctly surmised that it was not a truce, as the exact wording of the message I got was:
Mr Young I shall leave you alone for a while, enough people take the piss out of you without Baby tearing you a new arsehole every week.
Be lucky
which Allan and I both instantly recognised as what Islamic scholars would call a Hudna. That is to say that it is a truce with a time-limit (note the words 'for a while'). In any case, not long after I received note of the Hudna, this appeared on the forum (Feb 28th)
You know full well why I dislike you, we have done it to death, you treat people(dealers, casino staff, players you don't rate) like shit and you are a hypocrite. I am prepared to draw a line under it, but if you want to continue fine, Baby won't dodge a challenge.
Thanks for saving UK poker.
The above followed a post in which I made it perfectly clear that my attempts to preserve poker in the UK had failed, and that it was TV's Late Night Poker that rescued it from decline. Presented, again, with the declaration that I mistreated casino staff and dealers 'like shit', I gave a list of 8 Gutshot dealers and asked which of them had a problem with me. Given that I always get welcomed by the dealers at the club, I looked forward to finding out. Alas, answer came there none.
I hesitated to write about this sad troll on my website, but eventually I decided that someone had to point out the sad decline of a once-fun forum. New contributors will come and go. But if abuse of the order that I, Catman, Dom Sutton, Engel, Commie Boy, Jamie, Gryko and Roland have been expected to tolerate carries on, then many will wonder why they are providing free content in return for abuse. The troll thinks this is all part of the deal and tells one victim:
You always come back for more Dom, Baby is like the custard slice, you just can't resist.
Some of us are closing the cookie drawer for good.
_ DY
at 7:04 PM GMT
