Comments on: Calvin Ayre has $24 million seized by DOJ http://www.natarem.com/2008/07/30/calvin-ayre-has-24-million-seized-by-doj/ You met me at a very strange time in my life. Sun, 28 Feb 2010 08:52:38 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Suzy Wong http://www.natarem.com/2008/07/30/calvin-ayre-has-24-million-seized-by-doj/comment-page-1/#comment-7646 Suzy Wong Sun, 31 Aug 2008 05:56:42 +0000 http://www.natarem.com/?p=617#comment-7646 He did not have anything to do with that title "Catch me if you can" that was totally Forbes doing. He did not even know about that title until the magazine came out. He did not have anything to do with that title “Catch me if you can” that was totally Forbes doing. He did not even know about that title until the magazine came out.

]]> By: greg http://www.natarem.com/2008/07/30/calvin-ayre-has-24-million-seized-by-doj/comment-page-1/#comment-7456 greg Fri, 01 Aug 2008 07:11:32 +0000 http://www.natarem.com/?p=617#comment-7456 Nice article Nat. Also, poker needs to continue preaching the good aspects like Phil Gordon's 1% effort and work done by ppl like Lee Watkinson. Nice article Nat. Also, poker needs to continue preaching the good aspects like Phil Gordon’s 1% effort and work done by ppl like Lee Watkinson.

]]> By: Shaniac http://www.natarem.com/2008/07/30/calvin-ayre-has-24-million-seized-by-doj/comment-page-1/#comment-7451 Shaniac Thu, 31 Jul 2008 10:38:13 +0000 http://www.natarem.com/?p=617#comment-7451 Didn't Ayre also agree to do a 60 Minutes profile, the function of which seemed mostly to cast himself as some kind of Heffner to the gambling world and once again flaunt his billionaire outlaw status on National TV. It's amazing how vanity-driven his business marketing plan seems to be and therefore I guess not so surprising no one was able to convince him to tone it down. I'm assuming the DOJ has been working up to this for a long time and will relish the moment to put Ayre through the ringer as thoroughly as possible. What about all those ".net" sites that accept US players, who advertise using players at the WSOP. Is that not flaunting? Who draws these fine lines in the gray areas? Didn’t Ayre also agree to do a 60 Minutes profile, the function of which seemed mostly to cast himself as some kind of Heffner to the gambling world and once again flaunt his billionaire outlaw status on National TV. It’s amazing how vanity-driven his business marketing plan seems to be and therefore I guess not so surprising no one was able to convince him to tone it down. I’m assuming the DOJ has been working up to this for a long time and will relish the moment to put Ayre through the ringer as thoroughly as possible.

What about all those “.net” sites that accept US players, who advertise using players at the WSOP. Is that not flaunting? Who draws these fine lines in the gray areas?

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