bryon was riding a thin line there with the whole 'use gofundme to finance my legal defense' thing, and im guessing they had enough of this fiasco.
bryon was riding a thin line there with the whole 'use gofundme to finance my legal defense' thing, and im guessing they had enough of this fiasco.
"Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness." - Alejandro Jodorowsky
"America is not so much a nightmare as a non-dream. The American non-dream is precisely a move to wipe the dream out of existence. The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set up by the non-dreamers." -- William S. Burroughs
Interesting he was allowed to run his campaign as long as he did considering it was in news articles.
From the terms and conditions at gofundme
WHAT'S NOT ALLOWED
GoFundMe relies on its terms as a guideline in the decision-making process to arrive at its long-standing right to remove any campaign at any time for any reason. GoFundMe will continue to reserve the right to amend its terms as it deems necessary to support the wide and varied use-cases it encounters on its growing platform. No single set of terms will ever encompass every possible variable and GoFundMe will always review questionable campaigns on a case-by-case basis, especially as additional information about campaigns becomes available. Finally, GoFundMe regularly considers information from law enforcement and government agencies to help determine what actions our team will take regarding questionable campaigns.
* Campaigns in defense of formal charges or claims of heinous crimes, violent, hateful, sexual or discriminatory acts
It's official..
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So now he remembers why he's a bitcoin advocate, but 2 weeks ago he said he only wanted donations in FIAT currency.
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I don't think the GoFundMe failure is significant.
Micon is playing some hands and seeing a flop. He didn't hit & it didn't cost him anything. Good game.
Frankly, I think he hasn't been active enough. He doesn't seem to have committed himself in any particular direction. Once he does, the lulz will return.
I don't think inaction is one of his options. Just sitting & waiting quietly.
The heat & the interest is a marketable commodity and it has a shelf life.
Maybe Drexel or someone close can comment on wether Micon was one to act boldly & quickly or was he one to waffle and be indecisive.
You would think his legal bartering would be fairly mature by now.
Come out into the open Micon where we can see you.
LOL at the gofundme site going down. At first I thought their was a chance they would shut it down but after it was up over a week I thought maybe they didn't care?
Time for Micon to shut down his three table internet poker room and just come back to Vegas to face the music.
Possible theory:
Recall that Micon recently won an "anonymizing" war on his page against whoever did that Erin donation (I think simpdog). Instead of back-and-forth anonymous/un-anonymous, it simply vanished.
Very shortly after that, simpdog reported a failure to donate. We assumed it was aimed specifically at him, but now we know it wasn't. Micon's entire account was frozen from receiving new donations.
Since he was apparently violating their weird and unclear TOS ("defense of formal charges"), it's possible that after they agreed to remove the Erin donations, they asked themselves, "What is it about this campaign which is causing things like this?", looked closer, and noticed the TOS violation.
So it's possible that his actions to remove "Erin" might have indirectly killed his gofundme.
As I said earlier, it doesn't matter all that much, since he already got the bulk of donations that he's going to receive, and at most is losing out on a few thousand more (but probably less than that).
If only Micon had his own website to ask for donations.....
PFA Rookie of the Year Awards
2012: The Templar (unknown)
2013: Jasep $5000+
2015: Micon's gofundme legal defense $3k begging for 100k:
2018: 4Dragons
2019: Dutch Boyd: Mike Postle
2020: Covid19
2021: SMIFlorida and some sort of shit coins for $50k
2023: 22nd Feb 4th Dec Youtube channels removed
2024: Dustin Morgan wins Chrissy's $1000 contest: May 3rd another channel gone.
2025 Chrissy loses his FB page in mid January.
Popcorning
Last edited by Tom; 05-16-2015 at 04:42 PM.
Micon should come back to Vegas to play in the WSOP, I'm sure he can find plenty of serious investors to back him.
So NL hold-me in California is kind of jacked. Pechanga has a 1/2 NL and a 1/3 NL game. Jermaine is a reg at the 1/2 game. The min max of that game is $40. Nothing more nothing less. The 1/3 is a 50-200 buy in.
Pechanga is actually a customer of mine. I have a monthly meeting with them, usually early in the morning, catered breakfast, the whole 9 yards type of deal. The meeting ends at 10 am. What I normally do is play cards and squeeze in work. What I do is play in the daily and when I bust I jump in the 1/3 game or 5/5 in the off chance that it goes off at that time (which rarely does)
Jermaine always goes to other tables and bother people's led by acting his tweeker self. He also screams unintelligible shit from his shitty $40 buy in game.
Last edited by Bootsy Collins; 05-17-2015 at 12:50 PM.
The much-maligned betco.in has overtaken swcpoker, and it's not even close.
Pokerscout estimates:
Betcoin: 45 cash players average
Swcpoker: 18 cash players average
Keep in mind that when Seals was up, there was basically no contest. While other BTC poker sites existed (including Betcoin), they were considered non-factors and barely had any traffic.
It seems that now people are choosing Betcoin over Seals. This is the first time in more than 3 years that a site besides Seals/swcpoker led bitcoin poker traffic.
Basically betcoin is winning in the same way that John McCain won the 2008 Republican primary -- by default.
stuck in a very foreign country with two family members who likely dont want to be there and miss their friends and family
cant mooch from people (or launder his own legal defense funds) to fund his attorney down payment (was about 6.8% funded at last check, after several weeks).
his site, if he can ever figure out how to get it back up and running, is in freefall and anyone depositing funds should feel a bit of uncertainty, should anything ever happen to the Antiguan Bitcoin Minister
on the bright side, he has a surprising amount of lemmings who are willing to cheer him on and offer sympathy for his trials (no pun intended) and tribulations. They view him as a martyr, who is being picked on, and offer up ludicrous arguments (Micon gets arrested and Full Tilt people walk free).
What tv show picks this up as a plot?
What is now going through Martha's head right now? If she divorces him, and takes the daughter, can she go after him for support and alimony? She would have to prove he has money, and would have to show where he is hiding his $$$$$$$.
Every day its like a brutal chess game over there...keep the mrs happy, play with the daughter, get your mind off of the situation, call the attorney (send him more money).
Are there any more public statements from Las Vegas?
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