Repaid Loan....

It always feels like a victory when I am paid back what is mine, weird! Well here is a reply made on this loan from the borrower. Only fair I publish both peoples versions of events. After I will make a brief summary.


ThebigD 06 Feb 16:42


Message from Duffs

It’s been very interesting reading the forum the last few days and seeing what people have to say and finding out who your friends are and who likes to stir. I don’t think I have been wicked to people in the past and have always strived to do my best. There are some facts here and some that are complete rubbish but I will attempt to explain and you can draw your own conclusions.

A lot of people slate off Punterz but I always got on OK with him and met him at Wembley and Singapore where apart from talking at 100 mph he was OK. Dealem then asked me if I wanted to do his mortgage for him which I ended up doing and as it wasn’t the easiest mortgage in the world and ended up making a loss if you take into account my time but that’s really not an issue. After that we had numerous chats regarding poker and I stuck by him and never ever said a bad word about him on the forums and relayed my feelings on various posts that I felt he was cheated in the stax promotion.. So I thought we had a reasonable friendship going.

About 4 or 5 months ago there was a deal open to me which I was a few grand short in cash of completing so I asked him if he fancied earning a few hundred quid for a short period of time. He did this and this was repaid a couple of days late due to me not having his bank account details but he was well compensated in ways of the extra interest he got back. I apologised at the time that it was a couple of days late but he said no problems at all.

Just after Christmas I had a very dear friend who was in danger of losing everything and I offered to help them out. A lot of my money is tied up in investments so as the markets are sitting at an all time low asked Punterz if he could help out with 10k and I would pay him 11k back at the end of January. He said no problems and then duly transferred the money.

Now sometimes in life you get hit for six on things and this happened to me at the beginning of January. You will notice that I stopped blogging and was no longer on msn. I went through a period I guess of depression and had my head up my backside.

The days click by without you really noticing and then it was the end of the month. The end of the month fell at the weekend and on Monday I was completely snowed in and actually managed to spend some time with my boys and took them sledging.

On Tuesday I had a vile E Mail from Punterz and then saw the forum where he had posted on his blog that I was a crook and a man with no morals along with my bank account. Now to set the record straight on this one – I know I should have contacted him before but as I have said it was a traumatic time for me and was the end of the month before I knew it and I can only apologise for that. However I did not have ONE single E Mail from him and yet he has my work E Mail AND my msn email. I did not have his mobile phone number as my phone had been wiped after being in for repair. I now know his number and indeed there was a few missed calls from someones mobile which now turns out it was his but he did not leave a single message on my phone. I have an answerphone he could have left a message and he also has my work number where I have voicemail and a secretary and no messages were left. I am also pretty sure he has my home phone number.

So after being 1 day late and making no attempt to contact me ( I know he phoned but as I said made no effort to just say hi its punterz can u give me a buzz) for a reason only known to him he has set out to destroy my reputation. I was in the wrong for letting it slip past the end of the month but there were some very personal reasons that I really don’t want to go into and don’t feel I have to but as I have said it was the end of the month before I knew it.

I have repaid him £10,000 now and will do the other £1,000 tomorrow as my bank only allows a limit of £10k per day.

Make of this what you will but every word I have said here is the truth and I truly will remember all the kind comments on this post and will also remember those that love a little stir.

To the day I die I will never understand why Punterz felt the need to post this in a public domain when all I had done him in the past was favours. He mentions that other people owe him £40k so where is the dirt on them? I really don’t know what I ever did to hurt him and if he had left me one single message at all then I would have replied immediately. Incidentally I have been in communication with him via his threatening E Mails all week and haven’t ignored him since this post.

This is my very last post on this matter and hopefully this can now be put to bed.

PS – No I don’t have any financial difficulties and no I would not gamble with 10k and can assure you I make a profit with my poker and not a loss but thanks for all your concerns



Now personally I think Duffs appears to be a very good father to his kids and a good husband to his wife. This is the main thing in life so if you are not so successful in other areas it is not a bad thing. I will add when it comes to mortgages he definitely knows his stuff there also and I still highly recommend him. One thing I must question is if he has ever made an apology in his entire life? Some people may be nearly always right, but nobody is ever 100% right. Now he has said something to me about the last month which I can relate to and see why he is stressed, yet all he needed to do was tell me a few weeks before and I would never have said anything.

Before anyone asks for loans like I am some kind of loan shark don't bother! £1,000 interest on a £10,000 loan for 6-7 weeks when the money is instantly available to you is not a lot. I absolutely did not do it for the money but as a favour, with a previous loan to duffs I actually asked and accepted for a reduced amount of money than was offered to me. Previously as stated he repaid a week late and I was fine with that, why he can't see things are totally different this time christ only knows.

I will not point out lots of contradictions between what has been said over the last seven weeks as I hope duffs sorts his current problem out fairly quickly, however if months down the line when he is fighting fit and stress free he wishes to add anything so be it. The final thing I will add is that to ask to borrow money to complete a deal when in fact it is to loan to a friend means the whole thing started off with dishonesty. Well I hope duffs sorts everything out and then in a few months time can see things in a different light, if I see him at a live event I will still let him buy me a drink.

Everybody can learn a lesson from this, sometimes both people in a dispute can make mistakes and be wrong on some things. There is nothing wrong with compromise and accepting some fault. I am sure duffs will have a great home game as usual this year, and if anything will get even more entrants due to this bit of publicity!