There’s a scammer out there that I want to expose. His name is Steve Da Pimp. He pretends to be poker players like myself and asks to borrow money from people. He has several AIM screen names including Stevedapimp 17, Twin Caracas, RobDaPimp15420, spoony1350, curzdog19, TheRealZeeJustin and JustinBonomo. He also has gone to several poker sites including Full Tilt and made screen names like Curzdog and ZeeJustin (I think support gave that account name to me now). He’s supposedly a 17 year old kid from West Virginia.

In his most recent scam, he has been using the screen name JustinBonomo on aim IMing people saying he’s looking for people to stake. This is just a public service announcement saying do not trust this douche bag who is pretending to be me. I know he has had a lot of success pretending to be the guys listed above, and it makes me sick. If anyone has any information on this guy, please send it to me. There’s nothing I would want more than to see this kid suffer a slow painful death, or at least spend some time behind bars.

It’s been less than 24 hours since I posted my last blog, and I’ve literally gotten over 100 emails about it which is just absurd. I hope you guys understand if I’m unable to respond to most of these. The feedback has been almost completely positive, so I’ll continue with the whole “Dissecting a Hand” thing in the future.

I’ve been getting a ton of messages on MySpace. Feel free to add me as a friend on MySpace (www.MySpace.com/ZeeJustin), but please don’t send me messages on MySpace unless they specifically pertain to MySpace. Their servers are really slow and it takes forever to read and answer those.

I get emails all the time at ZeeJustin@cox.net, and I try to answer almost all of them. Sometimes (like today for example), I just get way too many at once to handle, so I hope everyone understands that my free time is very limited and I don’t always have the time to answer every question I get asked.

Here are some questions I get asked a lot:

1) How did you get started in poker?
A: I go into detail about this on my site. Click on where it says “about” at the top left of the page.

2) I don’t do well in tournaments. What am I doing wrong?
A: Since I don’t know how you play exactly, this question is the same as asking, “Will you teach me how to play tournaments?” and the answer is I don’t have the months to dedicate to you that that would take.

3) Will you mentor me?
A: I get asked this question way too often to ever consider saying yes. I’m not even remotely close to having the amount of free time this would take. 4) Will you send me your hand histories? A: Again, I get asked this question way too often, and it would simply hurt my game way too much to have thousands of people out there knowing exactly how I play.

5) What do you do differently that makes you a winner or what one specific piece of advice would you give me?
A: The key to poker is constant study and improvement. If your game is always getting better, you have no where to go but up. I highly recommend reading as much literature as you can get your hands on. I specifically recommend the forums at http://www.twoplustwo.com and any of the books by their publishing company. I learned a great deal from those forums.

Although it’s not a big deal getting asked these questions, I get tired seeing the same exact ones over and over, so hopefully I’ll get the ones listed above a little less often now. I’m not trying to discourage anyone from emailing me. I just figured I might save a little time by answering these FAQ’s once and for all.

I know this doesn’t really fit in to any topic at hand, but I recently got 21st in the $200 rebuy event of the Paradise Masters out of 846 players. It only paid $1552, but I think I’m supposed to say whenever I get deep in a multi or something. I mean, that is the point of a blog, right? It just didn’t seem eventful enough to write about, so I’m just slipping it in here.