:DLosing player ends up in court after threatening to shoot poker site staff*»*Bluff Europe Magazine
Losing player ends up in court after threatening to shoot poker site staff
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:DLosing player ends up in court after threatening to shoot poker site staff*»*Bluff Europe Magazine
Losing player ends up in court after threatening to shoot poker site staff
WTF? and thats why kids or adults with kid mentality dont need to be playing poker...
PS the site is Pokerstars lol
well that goes to show u if u cant lose it lol
dont threaten either
Zab should turn in all the violent offenders here. They would need to build jails for all the violations.
that is funny, you do the crime you do the time
Seems like a common sense thing not to threaten anyone's life, law enforcement frowns on that.
glad we don't have microphones attached, I would have been locked up with lilg a long time ago ;)
wtf fu drywall
no WITH rofl ;)
you wanna fight about it rofl
wtf this is nuts
nice thread prity cool
Unfortunately I suppose thsi kind of thing does happen. But people refuse to simply grow up these days.
I mean change is coming no matter what. But change in the attitudes of poker player seem to be turning violent in a heartbeat now.
I guess they want to live by the old school rules of: "If ya can't beat 'em on the felt, then beat 'em in the alley" hahahahaha
What offensed have this ?
very good reason to have a age min. keep the 14 year old kids outta here
good luck
lol that's funny.. you have to be more creative though
Yeah people don't take "terroristic threatening" lightly, so I don't advise it.
An online poker player who lost almost £19,000 ($30,000) before threatening the company’s Isle of Man head office via e-mail, has now received a three month jail sentence by a UK court.
Michael Gallagher, 35, of Redcar, North Yorkshire, was so incensed after losing the money over a year period between June 2010 and May 2011, that he threatened to massacre the company’s staff at the unamed online poker site unless they paid him £30,000 ($50,000).
Before his trial was about to take place, Gallagher admitted to the lesser charge of ‘sending an electronic communication conveying a threat’ instead of the more serious charge of ‘blackmail,’ which could have carried up to a 14 year sentence.
Judge Peter Fox even expressed surprise that the blackmail charge had been dropped against Gallagher, as he considered the case to bear all the hallmarks of blackmail. In his e-mail, the unemployed man threatened to shoot the online poker site’s staff with a sawn-off shotgun, with his communication continuing:
“I hope you take me seriously because I swear to God I’m going to do it. I will have my vengeance. I have planned this for six months. It’s what makes me sleep a night.”
“Drifting off to sleep, thinking about what I am going to do, knowing full well that the butchering I do will get you exposed for what you are… I will gladly take a life sentence for that. Believe me, it will be my finest hour… $50,000 in my account, or believe me, you will all be dead.”
The next morning, however, a contrite Michael Gallagher tried to pass off the incident as merely drunken behaviour and sent a follow-up e-mail expressing regret. The online poker site understandably were not prepared to take any risks and so Gallagher was arrested the next day, although no guns were found on his property.
Dismissing his drunken excuse, Judge Fox told Gallagher: “It is no excuse, at all, that you were affected by drink.”
http://www.onlinepoker.net/poker-new...11/10/gall.jpg
wow that is nuts but I guess they do take that stuff seriously
wow that was one crazy bastard,or a drunk some beach,either way he got a vacation for 3 months
I say shoot anyone who doesn't agree with me.....
crazy bastard!!!! wonder if he will play cards in jail?
So dumb, even if you had a bad downswing, thats the last thing you should do. Definitely no excuse at all for what he did, he probably shouldn't have been playing online in the first place.