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El Diablo Says:Â Â

Hi LoL. I hope you chime in on this thread:

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=8865423&page=0&vc=#Post8865423

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Hi El D–

I am going to reply to you in a new post since I was just about to comment on this situation anyway.  Actually I was going to comment on the companion thread in the Poker World gossip forum in which the former 16 year old paramour of Poker Maven volunteers to answer all questions. First of all, I will never again post directly on Poker World because I will never forgive the treatment my son and daughter-in-law received there, and I do not mean the mouth-running of the little poker dudes. I mean the behavior of Mr. Poker Publisher who is so proud of his integrity and of the quality of his products and of his business acumen and who has alienated almost everyone in the poker business, even those (perhaps relatively few) who are standup people, and who has certainly alienated the hell out of me.

What sort of quality and integrity is it when Mr. Poker Publisher permits the now 21-year-old former paramour to discuss the size of his prize author’s virile member (we are coyly given to understand that it is not inconsiderable) on the website which represents his beloved high quality business (and which indeed is a lucrative, very lucrative, part of said publishing company)? And to discuss a threesome in which Poker Maven disported himself with the 16 year old runaway (”SauraV”) and a 32 year old woman (who was almost too old for the decidedly middleaged Poker Maven)? On a website where threads are locked and deleted willy-nilly and posters are constantly being banned for offenses which range from nothing much to racist and anti-Semitic remarks, SauraV’s thread is allowed to stand, and not only that, Mr. Poker Publisher has posted in the thread to mention that he and his wife socialized with Poker Maven and Ms. 16 year old runaway. And no one seems to think any of this is inappropriate. Indeed Poker Maven himself states that he encouraged SauraV’s thread to demonstrate that he is not a predator. All I can say is OyVey!

Now to Poker Maven’s original post in the thread you cited…..Poker Maven only cares about what people think of him in the (presumably rare) case that such people are smart enough and knowledgeable enough to play in his league. Fair enough. I myself certainly only care about the opinions of people whom I respect. However, Poker Maven has a very narrow definition of what constitutes smart and knowledgeable–which boils down to people who have high mathematical aptitude as he constantly tells us he does. My view is that people who are worthy of respect can have a variety of different characteristics, personalities, and capabilities. And there are people with high SAT math scores (Poker Maven’s ultimate guide to human worth, near as I can tell) who are pieces of dirt and whose opinions of me (or anything else) I don’t care about in the slightest. For what little it’s worth, I am quite sure that my combined SAT scores (from roughly the same era as Poker Maven’s) are higher than his. My verbal and math scores were statistically equivalent and very very high, and I rather doubt that Poker Maven’s verbal score was anything to get excited about. Certainly he never mentions it (not my knowledge), and I have read his raw writing (before anyone has tried to make it readable). And yet I am quite sure Poker Maven would be dismissive of anything I have to say (including my opinion of him). After all, I am female, old, and not hot, so why would he care? Of course, he himself is not high on my list of people I respect, so I imagine we’re even.Â

In any case, only someone who did in fact care about what people think would have started such a thread. He has been criticized for harboring an almost underage runaway in exchange for sexual access, and that criticism must have stung, because he doesn’t want to be thought a “predator.” So he gets the former runaway to say what a wonderful influence he has been on her life. That’s got to be the case since the next thing she did after leaving Poker Maven’s safe haven was get herself, a young single woman, knocked up. Of course she was better off with Poker Maven than falling into the hands of some pimp and getting herself turned out on the streets and addicted to drugs. But I can’t give Poker Maven a pass on this. Clearly his ego is fed when he buys sexual access to very young women, but a responsible man in his 50s would look more closely into the situation before he started screwing a random young waif who showed up in his doorstep. I will admit that my ego is fed when I have sexual relations with men who are half my age or younger, but all of them are well over the age of consent and I don’t have to pay/support/buy presents at the mall for any of them. We could argue whether Poker Maven’s behavior is or isn’t predatory, but it sure is skeevy.

Finally El D, your assessment that SauraV is a troubled young woman who should have counseling…. She thinks she’s absolutely hunky-dory, and that pretty much settles it. Whether her self-analysis is right or wrong, counseling is useless for someone who thinks she doesn’t need it.