Well, we can look back at past mistakes; or we can look forward. Yes someone made a serious error in trusting what some of us early on and most everyone now realizes is a con man. But, instead of blaming (and laughing at) the victim, wouldn’t it be more useful to give advice going forward and suggest methods that might reduce future victims?
I don’t have the answers. The answer for LC lies in the con man’s intent, assets, form and substance of agreements, communications, and claims. Clearly it is lawyer time. Unfortunately, lawyers are expensive and the law is slow. And I don’t know if small claims fits the bill.
The other question is avoidance of other such future problems. I started
http://www.blackjack-scams.com as a tiny attempt to spread info on the problems in our field. But, it has commanded little attention. (Although I’m happy to say it gets more hits than the scammer du jour’s site.) We that are a part of the advantage player community would do well to police ourselves and find ways to spread information about the con-men about us rather than laugh at the victims. Otherwise, what jury would look on us with favor when we ask the court’s help after a back-rooming? And I include among those con-men, dice system sellers, pushers of weak strategies and popular, sleazy BJ forum owners that selectively censor posts. (Fortunately this is not one such site.)
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