Steve Forte, author of Poker Protection - arrested in NJ

[*TT*]

[ QUOTE ]
Maybe TT or Mason can answer this

[/ QUOTE ]

I am not qualified to answer, I'll leave that for Mason if he wants to respond.

[Professionalpoker]

[ QUOTE ]
Maybe TT or Mason can answer this, since you guys seem to know this guy. What is Steve Forte's backround? How did he get into this line of work? He must have been a magician or slight of hand artist right? Is he one of those reformed cheaters that got busted then decided to use his skills for good? Kinda like that guy in the movie 'Catch me if you Can'.

[/ QUOTE ]

http://www.steveforte.com/author.html

[Troll_Inc]

I'd say 8:1 odds that he is guilty.

5:1 odds that he pleads out.

2:1 odds it goes to trial and he is convicted.

[Shandrax]

The sad part about it is that the name of the player with the fixed i-pod or the relay-device in his shoes didn't become public. Would be really funny if it was a prominent person like...

[+EV]

[ QUOTE ]
[ QUOTE ]
Maybe TT or Mason can answer this, since you guys seem to know this guy. What is Steve Forte's backround? How did he get into this line of work? He must have been a magician or slight of hand artist right? Is he one of those reformed cheaters that got busted then decided to use his skills for good? Kinda like that guy in the movie 'Catch me if you Can'.

[/ QUOTE ]

http://www.steveforte.com/author.html

[/ QUOTE ]

Nice. But in that picture he looks shady.

[ToeHold]

[ QUOTE ]
The sad part about it is that the name of the player with the fixed i-pod or the relay-device in his shoes didn't become public. Would be really funny if it was a prominent person like...

[/ QUOTE ]

Ugh. So is it likely that TDA rules will be updated to ban iPods? Fitting a new shuffle in the casing of a full-size iPod would leave plenty of room for, well, anything really.

[*TT*]

News Update - it was a private game held held in the hotel rooms at the Borgata. Joseph T. Ingargiola, 50, of Playa del Rey, Calif., Stephen Phillips, 52, of Las Vegas, and James Calvin Harrison, 41, of Duluth, Minn., are facing the same charges.

[Humble Pie]

hmmm, not looking good for Steve Forte....

[*TT*]

[ QUOTE ]
hmmm, not looking good for Steve Forte....

[/ QUOTE ]

I was down at the Gamblers Book Club buying his book, they tried to sell me multiple copies because "we expect to sell out". We talked about Steve's situation, the employee said "Steve called and asked us not to comment".

caveat - the employee isn't the most aware guy in the world, Howard probably would have given me a much better and 20x longer comment about Steve Forte - I have lots of [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] for Howard!

[bustedromo]

Don't tell me he was doing research for a new book.