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Also too, can you imagine the look on his face and the feeling he got when Party sent him that email. I, for one, am a little bet concerned personally for his mental health as a person. Cheater or not, he is human, and as such has rights, and id be concerned for his well-being.

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I feel the same. I don't think the punishment he got from PP is too severe, and I think PS may have been too light. But I do think some of the outright hatred and bile being spewed on this board is unwarranted. If I was 20 and all my buddies were doing this, I can't say 100% that I wouldn't have done it. I think I may have stayed out of it more because I have so much to lose than some moral obligation. But it's hard to have that kind of perspective when you're 20. I know not every 20-year old makes this mistake. I'm just saying a lot, particularly weak people like I was, do.

There are so many little grey areas that we all cross all the time in life, I can see making a jump just a little bit farther to multi-accounting. Doesn't mean I condone it and I hope I wouldn't have done it. But I can understand how one would get there w/o being completely evil. And I don't agree this person cannot be rehabilitated and should be banned from poker for life.

I was scanning his website last night, looking at some of the pictures on the beach, etc. and I really did start to feel sorry for the guy. His world has to be crashing down around him. As it should, but doesn't mean I can't feel some empathy for what he's going through. Certainly he's not a saint of a person to start with, but I don't think he's anything like a scoundrel either. I think a lot of people on this site are getting way too caught up in the mob mentality of crucifying him. I believe he deserves a second chance when he grows up a little and accepts responsibility. And that naturally takes some time.

If he had come out the next day and accepted full responsibility, said all the right things etc. (ala Hugh Grant on Leno), I would tend to think some PR-type person got to him and he was being completely duplicitous. As it was at least he spoke from the heart and we know his position, wrongheaded as it is. This makes me a lot more likely to believe him when/if he does come around someday.