I just received a bizarre email from a Scott Bell from DoubleHead Pictures seeking information for a documentary film he is allegedly making regarding the Russ Hamilton/UBT/Bet21 fiasco. He had prepostrerous information about purported monetary transactions to which my name was associated. Apparently my name was used by someone else, because I certainly never bet the kind of money the "records" supposedly reflected. HAS ANYONE ELSE BEEN CONTACTED BY THIS GUY LOOKING FOR INFORMATION FOR THIS DOCUMENTARY? DOES ANYONE KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT THIS? This Scott Bell is way off base and probably needs to be straightened out before he gets sued for defamation and slander.
Sounds really fishy to me. Why would anyone want to do a documentary on an organization which was merely a blip on the radar of the grand scheme of life? Run, Forrest, RUN.
I decided to google his name and certain key words. Here is a link: http://pokernewsboy.com/online-poke...ut-forthcoming-ultimate-bet-documentary/12856
At the risk of opening up old wounds... I've not seen it, but the film is out. I just listened to an interview with Scott Bell - http://www.richardmunchkin.com/2013/10/gambling-with-edge-guest-scott-bell-aka.html. Some interesting/contentious stuff; particularly if you listen all the way to the end!
I bought and watched it. I found it about as interesting as reading a mutual fund prospectus. And the topic interests me, so I can't imagine any normal soul sitting through the whole thing! This scandal deserves a good documentary, but this isn't it. The interview was more interesting than the film, but I think Bell's comments about Joe Pane are irresponsibly reaching. That spot in the film seemed like filler (there was a lot of filler!), and I was surprised to hear Bell defending it in the interview. I'm looking forward to Joe's rebuttal in an upcoming week on the Gambling with an Edge show. GWAE is highly recommended by the way. Excellent weekly show/podcast.
My level of interest is a bit less, so I was never going to pay to see it. If at some point it appears for free, I might try and struggle through it. Should be entertaining. Yeah, I regularly listen to the podcasts. Any chance you might appear as their guest one day?
I was invited a year or more ago and I didn't have anything at the time that I really wanted to discuss. With the relaunch here as well as other new developments, I plan to contact them to get back on the slate soon. In fact that was on my list yesterday and I never got around to it.
I thought the documentary was pretty good. It was certainly dense, and I had to do some liberal rewinding to take it all in. I think of it more as the official Wikipedia entry of the scandal than a documentary designed to be entertaining. The amazing part is that just about all of the information was essentially crowdsourced from pro poker players, but amateur detectives on the two plus two forums
Done... See this: https://www.blackjacktournaments.co...ambling-with-an-edge-radio-show-podcast.8344/
Hi everyone was talking about blackjack today and realized I had not been on here for a few years! So hope your all well and winning x
