I’m back in Las Vegas, and I’ll be here for the duration of the World Series of Poker. Unfortunately, I won’t be playing any WSOP events, but I still expect to have a great Summer.

I’ve been very pleased by the reception to my latest video ‘WSOP – I CAN’T WAIT TO GO!‘. It got a lot of action on PokerNews.com, was covered by various blogs, was warmly received on 2+2, and even got an approving tweet from the WSOP itself.

Today, however, I must address other videos of mine, as I’ve been receiving a ton of inquiries.

The Lost Videos

Over the last several months, many of my songs and videos have disappeared for various reasons. Some of the videos I removed myself due to a misunderstanding of YouTube’s guidelines and a long-term plan of mine to get accepted into the YouTube Partner program. Several videos were removed from QuadJacks’ YouTube channel at my insistence. Some of the lost content will be restored. Some will not. The status and future of these songs are as follows:

• Simakos Series – I removed these myself due to the Partner plan. I still have the original files, and plan to restore the videos. However, those files are on my hard drive at home and I am currently in Las Vegas, so it will be at least a few months before the videos become available again.
• BBV Tales Series – Same deal as Simakos.
• Tony G is Qualified – This was a casualty of the QuadJacks dispute. I can’t restore the video because Zac assisted in its creation. However, they have no rightful claim to any of the music, so I may restore this song with a black screen.
• Fuck You – Similar to Qualified. Marco did the video, music is all me. May be reupped with black screen in the near future.
• We Didn’t Get You Fired – Same deal as Fuck You.
• Fun Police – This was removed during the QuadJacks dispute, but has since been mostly restored on my channel.
• What’s My [Screen] Name? – This was removed during the QJs dispute, but has since been fully restored on my channel.
• Willy Wonka You Get Nothing Remix – This was removed during the QJs dispute, but has since been fully restored on my channel.
• Dice Dice Baby – This song is unique in the fact that I did not write 100% of it myself. Same goes with the video. It will not be restored.
• I’m Not Afraid – I no longer have access to this song, so it probably won’t be restored. Frankly, I don’t really care as I believe it is easily the worst song I have ever produced.
• Lose Yourself (Forgot About Me) – I no longer have access to this song. In contrast to Not Afraid, this is extremely disappointing to me, as I believe it to be one of the better songs I’ve ever produced. It’s probably still sitting on one of the QuadJacks machines, but we’re not exactly on the friendliest terms. This song was made available on the album that QuadJacks sold for a brief period of time, so it is probably out in the world somewhere. If anyone has a copy of this track, please contact me.
• The Joe Sebok Show Series – I removed these from my channel out of respect for Joe Sebok. I hear some of you saying “Joe Sebok doesn’t deserve any respect”. Fair argument, but the fact remains that these videos weren’t really humorous and were just spiteful and mean. That’s not really my style. The song Sunday, which is humorous and pokes fun at Sebok, is still available.
• QuadJacks Song (Wonthem) – I still have a copy of this, but have no desire to restore it.
• DonkDown Song – I still have a copy of this, and may restore it.
• I Got 11 Gold Bracelets (But a Mix Ain’t One) – Technically, this isn’t a full song. A teaser was released, with a partial chorus. It was just a concept, and a bad one in my opinion. I never really wanted to complete it, and thankfully I no longer have any incentive to do so.

Back in Vegas

On a more pleasant note, I’ll be in Las Vegas for the next 2 months. I’ve already had some fun adventures in my short stay, and will hopefully have many more. For example, I participated in a demo run of the “Final Table Experience” yesterday. It’s basically a simulation of playing at a televised final table. Lights, cameras, announcers, everything! It’s really neat, and I believe it will be available to the general public fairly soon.

If you’re in town as well and want to hang out some time, hit me up!

There’s a fun story on the aftermath of this video. Matt Marafioti was extremely upset about it and has made quite a fuss. He has angrily tweeted at me, challenged me to a “rap battle”, and even ranted about it for 10 minutes in a recent interview. This is the first time the subject of one of my videos has come out and voiced displeasure, which is really remarkable when I look back on all the people I’ve poked fun at. I have no personal grudges against any of them, Matt included, so there’s no hard feelings on my end. I certainly have no plans to fly out to participate in any freestyle duels.

Office Space is one of my favorite movies. This video didn’t turn out to be as big of a hit as my other remixes, such as the Willy Wonka You Get Nothing mix, or the Most Annoying Sound in the World remix (a surprise hit in Brazil!). But I think it’s one of the better videos I’ve produced.

This is a remix of the interview Howard Lederer gave to PokerNews. This was the first time Howard had spoken publicly since Black Friday, and many people were very dissatisfied with the answers he gave. Another 2+2 member created a great clip reel of Lederer saying “I don’t know” dozens of different times. My video was aimed more at taking his words out of context, reflecting what people were really thinking, and showing the man having a dancing good time!

This is a parody of a parody. I’m sure you’re all familiar with the mega-viral Gangnam Style by PSY. That video has spawned hundreds of imitations and parodies. Recently, one such spoof gained widespread attention and has been hailed as possibly the worst video on the internet. Spartan High School Style was a school project that was never meant to be seen, but was accidentally uploaded and spread like wildfire. I did my best to “fix” the video.

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And stay tuned for details about my radio program.

Matt Marafioti is very upset with me for making fun of him on the internets.

This is the pilot episode of Sirius Business, essentially a test broadcast make sure I can run things smoothly without setting my house on fire. I recap the psuedo-feud between myself and Matt Marafioti. I catch up with my old friend Guillermo and discuss various topics such as football and the sad news of Marco’s retirement from QuadJacks. Marty (aka Jewdonk) calls in to insult me and attempts to take over my show. I lament the woes of the Houston Texans and outline my quest to get sponsored by Shasta Sodas. Lindsay interrupts my break to lure me to the dark side of Fanta and make a song request, which I abruptly deny. As promised, I give a Snake in the Grass update and reveal my recent discovery that Zac of QJs stiffed me on a web design project. An angry black man calls in and accuses me of having an affair with his girlfriend. I ask Guillermo if he is influenced by marketing that targets hispanics. I give Marty a 2nd chance, and am shortly joined by Todd “Dan Druff” Witteles thereafter; arguments ensue. Forum user Wiz calls in, claiming to be forum user Sonatine, and tells a bizarre story. A chatter berates Druff and challenges him to fisticuffs. We later confirm that it is indeed the PFA user SixToedPete and determine that he’s likely been drinking.

The show starts to get kind of stale after that, so I shut it down and thank everyone for participating. Next week will be the official premiere of Sirius Business, with a more prepared agenda and (hopefully) a booked guest or two.

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Update 1-23-2013: Sorel Mizzi has now removed all of my content from his websites.

This is Zachary Hart. Also known as Zac, Zekday0, Zekda Art, and in some circles as the “Snake in the Grass”. He owns QuadJacks, and for about 8 months we used to work together. I even considered him a friend.

I did lots of work at QuadJacks. I hosted radio, configured the radio server, did programming and web design, photoshopped graphics, and even taught Zac some of my skills. I did all this for nothing in return. Eventually, I got tired of doing all that free work. One day I told Zac and Marco that I didn’t want to do it anymore and that I was going home. This upset them very much. We talked for hours and hours as I explained why wasn’t I interested in continuing my work at QuadJacks, and that nothing was really going to convince me to stay.

The Partnership

However, Zac did find a way to convince me to stay. He proposed a business partnership. I would put my skills to use to design websites, and he would recruit professional poker players as clients. All profits were to be split 50-50. I was happy with this arrangement, so I stopped doing work for QuadJacks and got busy with the web design business right away.

The first client Zac landed was Sorel Mizzi (aka Imper1um). Zac and Sorel are both Canadian, and apparently have been friends for some time. Sorel was dissatisfied with his tarnished reputation from various cheating scandals. He wanted a personal website that he could control. Ideally people would visit his website when they searched his name on Google instead of this article accusing him of cheating John Racener at chinese poker, or his Wikipedia article that mentions his multi-accounting at Full Tilt.

The Project

Zac told me that Sorel had agreed to pay $1,000 for the website, so my cut would be $500. Finally, I was going to get a little money for my hard work! I poured my heart into the project. I grinded away coding the website, creating images, and writing content. I even conducted private Skype interviews with Sorel so that I could write up recaps of his biggest scores. In addition to Sorel’s website, I also created a website for our business and recorded a series of tutorial videos to teach our clients how to maintain their websites.

All in all, I spent over 100 hours working on the business, expecting a decent return. For his part, Zac made some phone calls to poker pros in Vegas. I didn’t mind that I was doing most of the work. I wasn’t interested in shouldering the task of making sales. That’s not my specialty, and I don’t have the connections.

The Breakup

Without going into too much detail, let me just say that Zac is not a very easy guy to get along with. He’s very ambitious, obstinate, outspoken, and at times abusive. This took a toll on me over time, but one night in particular an incident occurred where he said some things to me that I couldn’t tolerate. I decided to dissolve the relationship and return home the very next day. Sorel’s website was 90% complete, but I wasn’t interested in continuing to do business with Zac. I chalked it up as a loss and waste of time, but felt content to go back to Texas and be happier with my life.

As far as I knew, the Sorel Mizzi project was dead. He would just have to find another firm to create his website.

The Theft

I returned home some time around late February or early March of 2012. I continued making music videos and other projects, and was happy to be on my own and with my family. I never heard back from Sorel or Zac about the website project. A few weeks ago (January 2013), I saw a thread on the 2+2 Messageboards about a recent blog by Sorel Mizzi in which he forgives himself for his past misdeeds. Curious, I clicked on the link and was shocked to see that it was the website that I had built myself from scratch. He launched it in April 2012, just a month after I left.

The first thing I did was contact Sorel. I told him that I read his latest blog and that I was very surprised when I saw the design. He replied that QuadJacks made it for him. I informed him that it was in fact me that designed the website, that Zac had sold it to him without my knowledge or consent, that I had never been paid for the work, and that by using my design and written content on his website that copyright infringement had been committed. I also said that if it were some random person using this on their website, I would have simply filed a DMCA takedown notice, but I was willing to sort things out amicably. He replied that he would talk to Zac about it and get back to me.

The Discovery

I never did hear back from Sorel. I knew that Zac would never pay me the money I’m owed. And because Sorel was apparently unaware that he bought stolen content, I wasn’t going to hassle him to pay me either. So I e-mailed him a DMCA takedown notice and requested that he remove all of my content from his website. As a matter of principle, I couldn’t allow my work to be used without compensation. It sucks for Sorel, but he’d have to settle that with Zac, who screwed him by selling him stolen goods.

Sorel never responded to the DMCA, and both websites (sorelmizzi.ca and sorelmizzi.info) are still up. The next logical step would be to take this to court. As I contemplated this, I mentioned the situation to several people. Todd Wittelles of Poker Fraud Alert caught wind of it, and prank called Sorel on his radio show, playing the character of attorney Alvin Finkelstein.

In that call, Sorel revealed that he did talk to Zac, and that Zac claimed that I am crazy and made the whole thing up. He also mentioned that he paid $3,000 for the website. Apparently Zac intended to screw me from the very beginning. He told me that the deal was for $1,000, so his plan was to pay me $500 and keep the remaining $2,500 for himself. Unbelievable. Sorel also said he felt that he hadn’t done anything wrong, and that he shouldn’t be held responsible for hosting my copyrighted material on his website. From his perspective, this had nothing to do with him and should be settled between me and Zac.

The Aftermath

So what happens now? Probably nothing. I accept that I got rolled and that I’ll probably never get compensated for my work. Once again, Zac got the best of me. Maybe I should have known better than to fall for this. Maybe I should have forseen this and taken more steps to protect my work from him. Lesson learned.

As for Sorel Mizzi, I’m not sure how complicit he was in all this. If everything he has said is true, perhaps he’s just a bit naive and doesn’t understand that it’s wrong for him to accept stolen content and host it on his website against my wishes. Or perhaps he believes Zac’s story and thinks I’m a crazy person trying to shake him down for a few thousand dollars.

I’m not writing this as an attempt to get paid or even to gain sympathy. I just want the community to know what sort of a person Zachary Hart of QuadJacks is. This is a man that lies, cheats, and steals to get what he wants. This is a man that will pretend to be your friend and exploit you for personal gain. I don’t think Zac really has any friends; just people that he finds useful. Apparently he is continuing to provide websites for people in the poker community such as Gavin Smith, Matt Stout, and Dr. Ivan Goldsmith. He also has a strange conspiracy theory website called InfoWarsWest. I hope he didn’t trick some poor sap into making those for him free of charge.

If Zach Hart ever approaches you to do business, I warn you to steer clear. I also encourage you to spread the word and warn others, so that they can avoid getting bitten by the Snake in the Grass.

I’m joined by John Devine (Pikachar) of Low Limit Poker Radio. We discuss Greg Raymer’s hooker scandal, Jerry Yang’s financial woes, Dutch Boyd’s Kickstarter project, and other recent stories. A listener calls in to insist that Atlantic City is not a shithole. During the show, news breaks that Lil’ Wayne may be dying or in a coma due to codeine abuse and seizures. I bemoan the unreliability of internet media. John gives Wayne the nickname Lil’ Seizy.

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This is a remix of the interview Howard Lederer gave to PokerNews. This was the first time Howard had spoken publicly since Black Friday, and many people were very dissatisfied with the answers he gave. Another 2+2 member created a great clip reel of Lederer saying “I don’t know” dozens of different times. My video was aimed more at taking his words out of context, reflecting what people were really thinking, and showing the man having a dancing good time!

Office Space is one of my favorite movies. This video didn’t turn out to be as big of a hit as my other remixes, such as the Willy Wonka You Get Nothing mix, or the Most Annoying Sound in the World remix (a surprise hit in Brazil!). But I think it’s one of the better videos I’ve produced.

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