Haralabos Vouglaris goes off on Eric Lindgren...

Daniel to his credit did call Erick out on twitter. But Erick didn’t receive the usual rabid KidPoker treatment. 

How you could not call a guy out who was outright stiffing and slow paying people during the same time period he received $12m in distributions is beyond me?

If you are receiving  ~$250k a month and choosing to gamble that money rather than pay off your debts, in my books that you are a stiff and deserve to be called out for it.

Note that the $12m figure didn’t include an additional $4 million that Erick received immediately before Black Friday. Half of which was a loan, and half of which I believe was theft.

Whats that theft?

Yes there was the small matter of him asking for a $2 million loan from Chris Ferguson in April of 2011 and actually receiving $4 million by mistake. 

Say What?

Jump to around the 10 min mark of this video. 

I commented on twitter that if it was Daniels arch enemy Annie Duke who had borrowed the $2m, and for all intents and purposes “stole” an additional  $2m when refusing to return it, Daniel probably would have been foaming at the mouth to talk about what a thief Annie was. (Yes receiving money in a clerical error and not returning it is usually classified as theft). 

And while I don’t think Daniel is required to attack his friends with the same venom he attacks his enemies. I do think he needs to be a little more balanced about things.

Recall that at one point he video blogged about how he would have loved it if Howard Lederer got  assaulted (I think with a baseball bat I can’t quite remember and can’t be bothered to watch it again),  and yet when it when it came to discussing Erick he kind of shuffled it off.

Daniel even went so far as to split hairs (incorrectly I might add) and claim that although receiving AND KEEPING a $2m clerical error was wrong, it wasn’t actually fraud or theft. 

Newsflash. Some would Disagree. 

Finally I’d like to add that I didn’t really intend this to be an attack on Daniel I just expected him to be a bit more balanced in his critique of Edog. And while Daniel definitely gets a bit too riled up for my taste in his crusade of good vs evil in the poker world. He seems like the kind of person who would rather starve than stiff someone.

In addition Daniel is very loyal to his friends, and I admire that quality. In fact I think that everyone deserves a doggedly loyal friend like Daniel.

 These broke, degenerate losers like Lindgren were doing a great job trying to convince gullible people into believing that they were actually making a living off of a lousy card game.   

Why did we not hear stories of 7-card stud players that were making millions back in the day before Hold Em became popular?

And degenerate losers like Lindgren run the same con.  They tell you how great of a player they are while asking to borrow money in the same sentence.