"I was trying to go out quietly, and all this nonsense is getting really draining. However, I will not allow my integrity or intentions to be attacked. This holds especially true when my integrity is being attacked by this same lowlife who has tried to downgrade me to his level for two years now. He has made numerous falls claims about me for years, including the ones made in this post (that I have been a break even handicapper and I am the owner of POA). They are simply not true. It is posters like this guy that makes it hard for any potential future return, and sure doesn’t make me miss all this internet bullshit (if I can just leave in peace). Can this just end?
Regarding Pitchblack and his history:
This “man” who hides behind this computer screen name lives for “handicapping controversy”. He can not accept there are people out there that can do what he has never been able to accomplish. He finds people he feels are such, and feels the need to degrade them. For this, he has been banned at every forum he has been to. He gives the same old speech that he makes “50 units” every year in every sport, yet is a perennial loser beyond the flip of a coin. He has followed me to every forum just to make up lies about me. Since joining here, he has already accused me of being two touts (he has accused me of being nearly 50 different people now). How can I now be the owner of POA, when I am Joe Gavvazi (the other tout who has been stealing my picks)? Other accusations have been downright ridiculous, comical, and crude. I can only hope someday, he could move above the current state he is as a person and realize how shameful he has been acting.
Regarding Players of America:
I am not the owner of Players of America, and can not say enough bad things about them. The only thing I would recommend regarding them is not to give them a single penny. They sent me an email which included compensation offers for stealing my work. I have not replied, nor tend to do so. Why? Simply put, I do not believe the explanation they gave behind their thievery (and am disappointed that a lot here did). I think it is a one man operation pretending to be a 3 team partnership, and he used one of his false characters as a scapegoat. I feel the guy who was using my plays to charge clients, is the same person that clients are still having to pay for his picks (I can be wrong).
That said, this was a much better excuse than the tout Joe Gavazzi used. Another unethical tout who was doing the same thing.
I have said from day one, I don’t believe in charging nor do I recommend people paying for picks. This holds especially true to the touts mentioned above. There is too much good information given out for free.
This “internet conspiracy” theories are way out of hand. This thread is the epitome of me choosing to step away from the forum scene. I can only hope Pitchblack doesn’t turn a great site like EOG into the playground he has turned many others into. This site is too good for such, and deserves better. I can only hope Mods agree, as it is too draining and time consuming to have to continue to defend myself for the lies that are potentially about to come from him. I guess it is true. No good deed goes unpunished." ~buffetgambler