On today's episode of the Only Friends podcast (episode #492 – watch it in full above), Matt Berkey and the crew covered the results of the recent arbitration between Peter Jetten and Tom Dwan.
In February, Jetten went public on Twitter/X with a caution to others about doing business with Dwan. According to Jetten, Dwan had owed him $226,000 for four years through a staking deal. Initially, Dwan didn't respond on social media until March, when he recovered access to his Twitter/X account. The threads of Dwan's interactions with Jetten and others in the community have been deleted, but select screenshots have been archived in an r/poker thread on Reddit. Dwan disputed Jetten's version of events.
Eventually, after much back-and-forth online, the two agreed to enlist outside arbitration to settle their dispute.
Recently, Jetten announced that the arbitration had concluded with a ruling in his favor and that the matter was finally resolved, while hinting that Dwan's new sponsorship deal with ACR Poker may have helped with his solvency. However, that tweet, along with everything else on Jetten's timeline going back to 2022, has now been deleted.
"All scrubbed from the internet"
Speaking on the latest episode of the Only Friends podcast, Berkey discovered that wasn't the only material that was deleted, seemingly as part of the settlement.
"They [Dwan and Jetten] went to arbitration, and according to Jetten’s Twitter, Dwan had lost and paid," Berkey said. "There were a handful of tweets that Peter put out last week… all scrubbed from the internet now. He scrubbed his entire Twitter timeline dating back to 2022, so it seems like that was probably part of the agreement for him getting paid.”
Berkey then said that there was an article [from a rival media outlet] that quoted the tweets, and went to put it out on the podcast only to discover that had been taken down too.
“I’m more interested in why this stuff is getting scrubbed," Berkey said. "I don’t know what to make of that…Tom’s not going to have the ability to get articles pulled. I wouldn’t even know where to begin.”
Berkey went on to say this about the situation: "It's just interesting to me that so much of this stuff was forced public... This shaking people down, in the public sphere, it just feels so grimy. Not in the sense that you should be protecting the people that owe – because you absolutely shouldn't – it's just messy. We're publicly engaged now in two people's dirty laundry where we can't possibly ever get the full story. It's going to go to arbitration. The arbiters are still going to be influenced somewhat by public perception. And then this is the most positive outcome I could imagine, because Tom actually has the money to pay."
