Sounds like my speed, I'm a donk.
Too rich for my blood. I am of the "nickel ante quarter limit" class of poker players.
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Sounds like my speed, I'm a donk.
You are right! But on MSNBC isI don't mean to knit-pick and this doesn't make a bit of difference I'm sure.
20/20 is an ABC network show.
Tonly poker I know is Blackjack and I'm usually done after the second card.Sounds like my speed, I'm a donk.
The date was off- not days but a whole year, February 14, 2009 was the tourny , $15 buy in and the prize was $538.00. Twice Irish will appreciate this one
I know this has nothing to do with the case ..but every time yall discuss a Donk or being a Donk ... This always is the first thing I think about ......Sounds like my speed, I'm a donk.
Has anyone noticed the massive scar on Paulus' skull just below his
hairline on the left side? War wound? Auto accident? Surgery?
I appreciate all the information that members post. I probably should have been clearer in my earlier post regarding my interest in the tournament registration and why I was asking that question.
I was curious as to whether the poker players have to register in advance for a tournament and if you had read anything about that on the website you had found. Or if it's possible for them to just show up and buy-in. My train of thought at that time was whether Joran had registered for the tournament in Peru, and if so, if there could be a paper trail showing that was his intent. That would call into question whether he had been lured to Peru by someone and if that someone had paid for everything.
I only play online for play money so have no idea how professional tournaments operate.
Thanks though!
I found another discrepancy in the reporting of this case. It probably has no bearing in the overall picture, but I just hate it when the facts don't gel!!
A report from the main newspaper in Chile states "... the young foreigner was arrested at the height of Curacaví while traveling in a rental car to the capital , coming from Viña del Mar, in which he was staying in a guesthouse." He was captured on Thurs., June 3.
All other reports we've seen to-date say that he was traveling from Santiago by taxi...ugh!!!
http://www.emol.com/noticias/nacional/detalle/detallenoticias.asp?idnoticia=416897
This same newspaper also reported that the police returned with him to Viña del Mar "where he [had] spent Wednesday night, to seize [his] clothes and electronic species, but the measure [was] not successful, because the detainee forgot the address of the place where he slept."
http://www.emol.com/noticias/nacional/detalle/detallenoticias.asp?idnoticia=417128
These reports don't agree with VDS's confession, but do somewhat agree to what he told the PLE ... that he left his credit cards, etc. in his hotel in Chile.
My inclination is to believe the Chilean news reports since that's where it happened.
IF this incident ever happened, Joran and his friends were minors. The guy, who is depicted as the aggressor, was an adult. HE would have been charged with assault. An adult cannot go around attempting to start physical altercations with minors.
No one here would look at this the same way if Joran wasn't involved.
I think I heard or read not sure which but I understood it to be...if he told the truth, they would have Natalee's body....if he didn't it would be extortion. I'm pretty sure they knew he wouldn't tell the truth but I would think Natalee's family was desperate to at least get Joran off the street. But I also think Beth had a little flicker of hope that he would tell the truth. I would imagine that Beth has a desperate need to bring Natalee home and to know the truth.
I've taught high school and college kids, and if one of them threw someone off a bridge for the reason stated in the posted article, I would think he or she had committed assault. Self defense only allows sufficient fierce to stop an aggressor. As I've remarked before, the worst thing adults can do to young people (short of physical and psychological abuse) is let them get away with things that are clearly wrong, to make excuses for their antisocial behavior, to turn a blind eye to signs that something is very wrong.
Tonight on a repeat of NG, I saw the undercover video with Joran talking about one version of what happened to Natalee. How do you account for his confession in this instance (not to mention the other confessions that he was present at her death and disposed of her body)--which would have been unnecessary if her death had been an accident? How do you account for his lies or his calling Natalee a terrible, derogatory names? What kind of person talks about a person who died in his presence in such derogatory terms? I'd still like to see one bit of EVIDENCE to show that anyone else killed Stephany.
I appreciate all the information that members post. I probably should have been clearer in my earlier post regarding my interest in the tournament registration and why I was asking that question.
I was curious as to whether the poker players have to register in advance for a tournament and if you had read anything about that on the website you had found. Or if it's possible for them to just show up and buy-in. My train of thought at that time was whether Joran had registered for the tournament in Peru, and if so, if there could be a paper trail showing that was his intent. That would call into question whether he had been lured to Peru by someone and if that someone had paid for everything.
I only play online for play money so have no idea how professional tournaments operate.
Thanks though!
I've taught high school and college kids, and if one of them threw someone off a bridge for the reason stated in the posted article, I would think he or she had committed assault. Self defense only allows sufficient fierce to stop an aggressor. As I've remarked before, the worst thing adults can do to young people (short of physical and psychological abuse) is let them get away with things that are clearly wrong, to make excuses for their antisocial behavior, to turn a blind eye to signs that something is very wrong.
Tonight on a repeat of NG, I saw the undercover video Joran talking about one version of what happened to Natalee. How do you account for his confession in this instance (not to mention the other confessions that he was present at her death and disposed of her body)--which would have been unnecessary if her death had been an accident? How do you account for his lies or his calling Natalee a terrible, derogatory names? What kind of person talks about a person who died in his presence in such derogatory terms? I'd still like to see one bit of EVIDENCE to show that anyone else killed Stephany.
presence--and whose body he admits to hiding--in such derogatory terms?
Has anyone noticed the massive scar on Paulus' skull just below his
hairline on the left side? War wound? Auto accident? Surgery?
Isn't it still extortion either way? What I mean is, even if he had told the truth which led to Natalee's remains, isn't that still extortion?
Wasn't that the same confession where he said he wasn't even sure if she was actually dead when they threw her in the ocean? The way I look at it, if he thought that she might be alive but unconscious before throwing her into the water, miles off shore,that is actually admitting to murder.
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I know this has nothing to do with the case ..but every time yall discuss a Donk or being a Donk ... This always is the first thing I think about ......
badonkadonk
If you understood American law, at least, you would know that no minor would be charged for assault in such a situation.
But then again, those who believe Joran is a serial killer will fit these incidents from the past into their fimly established image of him.
Merged posts, snipped.
Now you're really being silly. EVERY minor would be charged with assault in that situation. Every last one of them. You want some case law to back that up? Let me know what state your in, and I'll pull several thousand juvenile, AND juvenile charged as adult, cases off of Westlaw or LexisNexis just from your state.
Skewed again: And, Joran's "image" in the minds of others is not a result of others' conjuring an image in a vacuum, it is the image HE firmly established of himself.