Gordon Vayo is facing a $279,000 legal bill...and the wrath of #pokertwitter.

Upon first blush, there doesn’t seem to be a lot of sympathy for 2016 World Series of Poker Main Event runner-up Gordon Vayo and his current predicament with online poker giant PokerStars.

It was revealed this week that Vayo unconditionally dropped his $600,000 lawsuit against PokerStars for withholding the bulk of his winnings from Event #1 of the 2017 SCOOP. PokerStars did so after evidence that Vayo broke the terms of service and played the event from inside the U.S. Vayo provided documents alleging that he was actually in Canada, as he claimed, but after a “third party” provided PokerStars proof that those documents were forged, Vayo is now being countersued for PokerStars legal fees of over $279,000.

In other words:

One of the players who chimed in was top-flight Belgian tournament pro ‘Girafganger7’ (aka ‘Giraf’). Giraf, who we spoke to about this just weeks ago, technically finished as the runner-up in the event that Vayo won, even though he took home the bulk of the prize pool in a final table deal.

The notion of using forged documents in a lawsuit, especially against a company with as many resources as PokerStars struck people as not the brightest thing to do. For instance here’s Luke Vrabel‘s take:

While there seems to be no question as to whether forging documents was a good idea. There was some question about what PokerStars should do with the winning. (Note: according to reports Vayo’s sum will be given to charity.)

Former PokerStars employee Michael Josem took these questions and explained the difference between someone out-and-out cheating and breaking the terms of service.

Of course, Giraf has an idea of where the money should go.

And as the poker community is wont to do, when there’s an opportunity for a needle – needles will be given and just like the internet in general, poker players have a long memory.

PocketFives own Lance Bradley sums it up nicely.