Here is the official Lock Poker statement regarding what's been going on with Jose 'Girah' Macedo. If you're not familiar with the situation more can be found in the NVG thread here:

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/29...-scam-1079792/

Official Lock Statement

"All of us at Lock are horrified and incredibly disappointed by Jose's actions. Within 10 minutes of finding out about the fraudulent behavior his LockPRO contract was terminated and his account was banned permanently. says Jennifer Larson Owner/CEO "At Lock our philosophy is based on building a deep relationship with our players and at the core of this is trust, legitimacy and loyalty. Jose's has defrauded the players, the art of poker and the basic human relationship. LockPRO is a strong team of great people and will continue to find like minded, trust worthy, passionate players who will make us proud to be in this industry."

-Rizen

What a bunch of BS. 10 mins? What about when you caught him cheating the first time 3 months ago?

So do you expect us to believe that, per your original statement after Girah's disqualification after the Lock challenge, you audited his account and MISSED and $100K chip dump in the final few days of the challenge?

No, really. You went on record saying he was DQ'ed due to a rules violation (mutli-accounting) but won the contest fairly. Which is completely false.

So either you have an auditing team that's so bad they can't see a $100K chip dump (and ergo they should all be fired), or you lied in your original release after the challenge. Either way, you should come clean and apologize.

Wow that is probably the most lawyered up statement you could have made. And it really doesn't address the anything other than ya'll terminating his contract.


Seems Pretty Shady to me

FYP.

Typo, it was supposed to say 3 months 10 minutes

Lock, it would help if you would be transparent in this. At the very least give us the dates that someone else logged in and played on Jose's account and who they played against.

Hell, just give us all the HH's, we'll do the rest.

Is there even a Jose macedo?

I'm been reading somewhat and many people think Jose "Girah" Macedo is a made up, fictitious character.

Don't take this the wrong way people. Lock should handle the Girah situation swiftly and effectively. With that said....Why do you people care so much? Did he scam you out of money? Do you think the Lock company was helping him scam other people? Just saying ease up on 'demanding' to know what the situation is when you really have no vested interest in it.

-Zack Ryan

You really need someone to explain to you why people would have an interest in how a high profile poker site manged to "investigate" their own pro and find nothing wrong with the most obvious and blatant chip dump in the history of chip dumps?

It actually wasn't the most obvious and blatant chip dump in the history of chip dumps....it took nearly 600 hands and nearly 1 hour in time. They made it look like a real match.

The dumper had never played on the site before, they played at stakes almost never seen at the site and he "lost" 100K at the tail end of a "who can win the most" competition to a guy who was in the running for it?

I'm not sure what your definition of 'obvious' is, but to me, that'll pretty much do.

Let's not forgot that the owner of the account that dumped to Girah, the "SamChauhaun" account, was in the name of DogIsHead, who was certainly known to be associated with Girah.

This should have been obvious to anyone who did even two minutes worth of research into the players. The fact that they tried to make it look like a real match is just more evidence that they were trying to get away with it so that they stood a better chance of not raising any suspicions so that Girah could win the competition.

Okay.