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Message: [QUOTE="DS3, post: 6482443, member: 407846"] I am near to tapping out on this drama. The employee theft reveal compelled me to wade through Joey Ingram’s stream one more time (at double speed and skipping parts) and I emerged the other end convinced of one thing – this is feeling more like contrived reality TV than an actual incident (s). I am not claiming fabrication as such, but rather embellishment and contradiction at every turn. Regarding Bryan Sagbigsal (the thief), though Robbi stated he did not have a criminal record, he has an extensive one. I do not necessarily think this reflects on Robbi as she said this is what the police told her (when she did not press charges) but it does reflect on HCL. Vertucci was with the police at one point early in his career but this proves security was woeful on the stream. Not simply because Sagbigsal had responsibilities in the secure tech section with hole card information, but because the clown was playing high stakes in the casino itself before and after his shift. That’s right. A lowly paid, young employee was out on the casino floor in front of one and all regularly blowing through tens of thousands without any of the principals twigging he had a gambling habit and was a suspect employee. He had also openly searched for clarity as to how anyone could have assisted in the prior chess cheating scandal. I honestly do not care if he wrote the tweet to Robbi (I thought he had already deleted his Twitter account). He is scheduled to appear on Joey’s next stream. You can’t make this up - the era of no shame. The thrust of this reveal meant during the first half or so of the podcast, guests came on to say this was a farce and it was tipping them towards the cheating theory. Things which have been clarified over the last couple of days. It has now been admitted RIP (Jacob) staked her 100% with a 50/50 split of profits. Except on that stream it was with borrowed funds from yet another Hustler regular (?) as RIP claimed a cash flow problem. Additionally, Beanz got on the podcast (another Hustler player) and revealed he had had prior financial transactions with Robbi but would not reveal why or how much. Odd as she is cast as independently wealthy with a wealthy husband to boot – why is there any need for her to be staked? Further, Eric Persson confirmed no one at the table was aware of the backing deal or Robbi and RIP were in cahoots. However, that means four people were involved in fronting large sums of money back and forth to get on the Hustler Stream. Not necessarily dubious in high stakes circles...except for the fact they all admit they had only known each other for a limited period. Then in the second half of the podcast, Robbi yet again phoned in and it was an absolute cluster****. Shaun Deeb and Haralabus Voulgaris were on stream already. Robbi proceeded to rant for over thirty minutes attacking Shaun Deeb for trying to arrange heads up matches, forgetting she had volunteered to play anyone heads up naked to showcase her ‘poker skills’. She attacked Voulgaris with another round of ‘who the F are you?’ and did likewise to Bill Perkins. ..’who the F was he?’ In fact it was F bomb after F bomb as Robbi lashed out at all of them trying to take her down and ruin her when she was just a simple gal trying to play some poker. She stated Joey was the only one admitting he was nothing but a troll (?) and they were all piling on for the clicks and views. Then she ran out of steam and was close to sweetness and light, conciliatory for the next thirty minutes or so. Just bizarre. However after she was done with excoriating them all for trading off her scandal to raise their own profile, she then mentioned her LA times article and the fact she is flying to Las Vegas today (Saturday) for a wedding and to meet with parties about launching her own poker channel. That’s right. Her own poker channel. I will repeat, once more, I still do not believe this adds up to a ‘technical’ cheating scandal. As I said from the off, I believe Robbi was determined to create a brand and a series of improbable events have fallen into her lap. From that stream, I think she, her husband and several others (such as HCL) have all tried to hype the event as though it was reality TV. Except where it all falls short is that reality television is outlined, scripted and then edited – doh! So these folks can’t keep their stories straight, motives appear sketchy and Joey Ingram might as well be Inspector Clouseau for all his stoner ‘investigating’. Regarding anyone’s ‘truth’ I think the problem we all face is a societal one – truth is now disposable. A character such as Robbi emerges and her economy with the truth and shifting tales are jarring. Except over the longer arc, who cares anymore? Robbi has raised her profile with lightening speed and apparently now has investors interested in backing her. We’ll see. But it should be obvious that those investors aren’t concerned at all with the specifics of what took place at HCL, but whether they can potentially profit of her rocket-like profile to an audience who likely could not give a crap how she got from A to B. I am sure many will conclude this was amazing and credible brand building. [/QUOTE]

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