Originally Posted by
ShadyJ
How many things have to go down involving Drexel before we start looking at him?
This thread has become to huge and diluted for me to copy and paste every question and now attack thrown my way. I'm going try to state everything I wish to in this one post on a variety of subjects.
22q- To clear it up for everyone, it was Jasep's idea and solely his to have the 22q charity podcast. He approached JoeU with the idea. Joeu TOLD me on the phone that he asked Jasep why he wanted to put in so much work for a charity he just heard about and Jasep responded that "he hoped if he ever needed help (context was in reference to a disease) others would do something like this for him. Jasep then approached Kevin and I and start is how the process started.
Per Jasep, and this was his word without me ever seeing proof, the only person that cashed out of the poker room was Beebs. I dont remember the exact amount but it was less than $25. She can of course fill in the correct numbers.
I had a balance in the poker room of over $400. I staked a ton of people in the main event tournament and the balance was removed by Jasep after 22q.
I admit I never followed up on the monies he was suppose to send or ask him for any proof. He told me he was taking care of it. I assumed months ago everything had been handled correctly. It was only within the past week and change that thought first crossed my mind that there was a possibility monies might not have been paid. It was also brought to my attention that he had stated publically after 22q he was going to borgota to play for about 7-10 days.
When we all settled up our prop bets (Kevin, myself and Jasep) I sent Kevin the 1k I owed him, I offered to put the $600 Jasep owed me in his bap, again he stated to both Kevin and I that he was putting thee $600 in himself. I again fully agree I should have posted or had him post that he was putting in the $600 due to monies owed me. There were other prior investors as well (I didnt know this at the time) who rolled over monies he had owed them from previous baps as well. He may very well had only received 3500-4k in cash from new investors. A new thread can determine this.
I had expressed my displeasure of working with Johnny to Mark on the phone almost daily months before this BAP started. I also had told him back in December I planned on resigning. He asked me to hold off and see if things improved. I did this out of respect to Mark.
The issues for wanting to resign were for a number of reasons. There was an email that Mark sent out to him speaking on my behalf as well that addressed these concerns. We wanted to know once and for all the blind squirrel figures. We wanted Mark to handle the finance (this had been agreed since before we opened shop) and we asked him about the pikachar involvement in the site. My main issue was he had made a number of significant decisions we had found out either by seeing them or from behind the scenes without consulting us. This severely violated our original agreement in which we all pledged to communicate and make consensus decisions.I also was angry because we had a skype meeting in Novmeber in which Johnny basicallyy admonished Mark and I for not selling ads or doing enough to make income for the site. He also stated he had stopped playing poker for months to dedicate himself to the website and insinuated that WE were the cause of lost income he would have had if he wasn't working 10-12 hours a day on VPR. Mark and I laughed privately about this.
These were the reasons I quit VPR. The only shady monetary thing involved Mark sending him $250 at the spur of the moment one day when asked so that a guy who does web work for comedy central could work on our site. He indicated the work could only be done that day. he needed the money that day or we would have had to wait over 3 months for his services again. Mark sent him the money. He gave excuses weeks later as to what had been done. He claimed to Mark the work had been done, but certain things had to still be installed, so on and so forth. Mark can elaborate but suffice to say neither one of us had the technical aptitude to verify what if any work was done.
I had already planned to quit VPR in December. I had already resigned before he began his BAP. There was nothing I knew that I could have reported that would have affected this. Honestly I had suspcions. But so did others. I had zero concrete proof he was or wasn't playing.
I wasn't going to post the behind the scenes VPR conversations and issues as that was irrelevant to everything. It served no purpose nor was anyones business but Mark, Jaseps and mind. And think back, if I resigned publically, blasted another former business partner/friend how would i come across after last years events? As ShadyJ said "drexel is always involved when there is drama" I didnt want this again. I knew me writing that first post would cause this but after realizing by him not paying me and continually buying time, I had to report my dealings with him. At that point I knew he didnt have the 5k roll he claimed to have.
My character. I have been on the forums since 2007. It's funny how events from 6 years ago are still used to question my character and yes I am referring to Julia. I exhibited bad taste and acted awful back in 2008 when i didn't pick her up from the airport and spoke of it. This should be afterthought now. I apologized years ago. She forgave me. We have been close friends since. She was a neighbor of mind for quite some time and ironically enough she is in town for the Superbowl and a group of us are having dinner tonight. I really don't think anything I have done in the past should be used to attack my character now or as shadyj said " maybe we should start looking at drexel"
I'm going to keep my word. I will work with JoeU. I will contact the authorities and fly to RI if necessary. I will keep everyone that has been working on this and communicating with me updated offline. I will do all I can to help restitution be made. But besides that I'm done. I've donated enough time over the years trying to entertain and make people laugh to have numerous posters (and not trolls) have the audacity to say "maybe we should look at drexel" and then I read 5 pages further and no one responds or felt the need to respond. Cmon.
edit: Mark plz feel free to add/correct anything in regards to the VPR issues since you were involved with all of this with me
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