This site has been taken down as Federman is in the process of paying us back.

- BigPig didnt post the whole situation, and i have nothing to deal with it. ugly thing is that BigPig posted my screen-name which he got from unknown fake guy who told that he currently stakes me, but BigPig didnt post whole situating on the thread.

I`m staked by well known man for allmoast 5 months now. = i`m not staked by Iuliu P. first time heard of him
I dont reconize any of other names, except my ps screen name. that`s not my skype name. + i havent recaived any money to my PS acc from unknowns. can prove it.
+anyway, by 400usd isnt enough for one 3r session

It would be helpful if you post a picture and his personal information. I am sick and tired of these no good kids ruining the reputation of romanian players. Just post the pic and make a short blog page with their info so that they will be found when performing a google search.
Regarding the dispute between stakee and stable: I have a few things to say:
1. There is a contract involved. Most contracts are in favour of the stakee. If you do not agree with the terms of the contract then do not sign it.
2. If a stable offers you a 70-30 or whatever split(with the condition that you play a certain volume) it stands to reason that if you do not abide to that condition you are in fact breaking the terms of the agreement and are liable for make-up and negative feedback posted.
There are a few reasons for this: the stable invests not just in the bankroll, but also in materials, coachings, sweat sessions and alot of resources for the player to reach his potential. When doing these investments the stable is doing this with the player's assurance that he will put in the work and improve his game so he can bring larger profit to him and to the stable.
3. Make up is a must. I as a staker work for the money I invest in people. If a player doesn't pay back what is agreed upon in the contract he agreed and signed then it's my right as a backer to out him and protect other stakers.
4. This is a business and in such an environment mistakes are payed. So if a player makes mistakes and does nothing to fix them, he should pay(it was his choice to get involved in this). If a stable/backer does not treat a player abiding the rules of the contract then they should be punished(even though by treating players badly he will loose his stable eventually).

Now there are countless situations where the rules get bended in favour of the backer or the player(most of the times in favour of the player). Let me just illustrate some of the ones I've been confronted with:
- the player is sick and can't play his agreed volume(no problem, get your health back, concentrate on that atm)
- the player is on vacation, he does not play his volume, is in mu(no problem, have fun, get back at it after that)
-the backer is on vacation and cannot be contacted for a week or so(no one gives updates, no one plays volume)
- the backer does not want to reload a player that lost all the br due to bad play, not keeping a stoploss, etc(the player deletes him from his skype list and thinks he can start over without problems).
- the backer stops staking a player due to bad conduit, suspected chipdumping, etc.(the player outs the backers for not respecting him).

Now these are all inclined to mistakes made by the players. I do not belive they are the only ones who make them.
PS: The major mistake I've seen so far on this thread is lending money for life expenses. Those money will be gone. Imo if the player wants money for expenses... he should play more and generate them.

Name: Iuliu Paulius
Stars: Iuliu P.

Address: Lozoveni 99
Galati, 800156
Romania

Player went into makeup in a stake for $2.50 180man, then disappeared with the remaining stake funds. Do not stake.

Was 11 months with basically no contact but Jasper has contacted me and wants to make this right. He sent first payment today of $200 and expects to be able to send weekly payments until this is fully resolved. Glad to see he wants to clear this up and I'll update when payments are complete.

Name: Siu Tran
Address: 4995 Rue Guenette, Laval, QC, Canada
Cell: +1-514-295-0968
Skype: dare_you24
E-mail: staffaire@yahoo.com
PokerStars: dare_you

owes me $4500 from a loan for a nearly a year now. have tried multiple times to set up payments to no avail.

Good News - Muntean has started talking to me again and has agreed to start paying back the money he owes me, he told me he wants to take responsibility for his actions and does not want this to hurt his reputation. Thanks Muntean

Name - Sorin Popescu
Pokerstars - NbV696
Skype - sorinpopescu5
Email - addpoker05@yahoo.com

Started playin 12man $3.50 sngs with $100 br, made $44, then dissapeared and deleted us off skype. Do not stake!

James has paid. He was apparently the victim of some sort of identity theft by his roommate.

The debt is now settled.

A couple weeks later now and apparently Tim has a job and is planning on paying back the debts owed.

2+2 user jenbones (Benjamin Jones) sent me this pm on 7/7/14. He already bought some of my action in the marketplace and vice versa.
I think the fact that I spoke to him on two different mediums (2+2 and skype:link to skypelog) made me trust him a bit too quickly.

Skype has the option to view a friend's profile and look at his total number of contacts, when I saw I was his only contact I knew I had gotten scammed.
I immediately got in touch with my skrill vip manager Harry. He gave me Kamelia's number, she left a meeting to help me with my emergency and was able to go higher up and help me freeze the scammer's account.
I am very lucky that she was the one on my case and would like to thank Kamelia and Harry again for all their help with my unfortunate case.
After a couple of days of back and forth communication with Skrill, they were able to return $12354.46 of the $16326.15 I was scammed for. Apparently, the scammer got $3971.69 out of his skrill account before support was able to lock it.

With the much needed help of the real Benjamin Jones we found out the hacker/scammer's info. I want to stress that Benjamin Jones aka jenbones aka jenbizzle had no involvement in this scam and I would like to thank him for all his help in getting this resolved quickly. The only thing he can be guilty of is not securing his 2+2 account well enough.

The scammer's name is Simon Cross and used to go as crossbiggy on stars. He's an old acquaintance of Ben's and they used to have a backing relationship before that went south. Which is why it wasn't hard for us to connect the dots that lead us to him.

I am now in contact with Simon and we have agreed on a weekly repayment plan. He seems to show some remorse about his actions and hopefully he can continue the path he's on right now and pay back all his other debts too.

We have reason to believe that he may be using the following aliases: Tony "FairOneMukka" Pierce, Andrei Timiryazev, David Sanchez and washyUK on stars. So please be careful.

Cliffs:

-Benjamin Jones' / jenbizzle / jenbones 2+2 account got hacked
-he's not responsible in any way.
-Hacker/scammer tried to steal 16k
-I got 12k back and we have agreed to a repayment plan for the rest.

Petervdm14 is the user name he is useing atm to sell shares on pokernews.nl maybe this addition will save someone there as there mods are ok with a scammers/thiefs selling on there site.

Name: Leidy Ramos, Leidy Johanna Collazos Ramos
Stars: Jjprincess19
Email: jhoanita0106@outlook.com
Address: Calle 12A #19-35
Popayan, 190004 Colombia

I notified this player that I was ending her stake (due to lack of volume). She then disappeared with the stake funds and profit in account. Scammer, do not stake.


Also I’ve posted two DNS’s previously on players and only gave their screennames. Neither has repaid, so I’m posting the additional info I have.

Stars: Daming2
Name: Michael Zhang
Address: Xizhimenwai Dajie 1185-17
Beijing, 100080 China

FTP: tashkentas
Name: Karolis Rastikis
Address: J-T.Vaizganto 7-8
Mazeikiai, LT-89104 Lithuania

kappustahead has been paying me back. He has been doing well at the tables, and although i feel he should be paying the debt back faster, i do appreciate him making good on his debts.

I'd love to see his remorse stretch far enough to plan to repay all the other long standing debts, in order. If so, don't hold your breath for your turn.

I'm Harry, Felix's Skrill VIP Ambassador. Felix is one of my long-time clients on Skrill and just showed me this post. As this happened a week or two ago, I wasn't sure of the outcome.

At the time, Felix pinged me on Skype and luckily I was around and could get it into the right person's hands. Very glad to see that this was (mostly) averted.

The hero of this situation is actually the person at Skrill who helped. For the record "Kamelia" took a call in the middle of a meeting, dropped everything she was doing, and worked with Felix to stop this within a matter of a few minutes. Not bad, I'd say.

Harry

domchief

dominic morley

was straight withdrawing funds.
http://dominicmorleyisathief.com/

and put back up as he has breached our repayment agreement.
http://federmancentenoisathief.com/

federman88

this. total must be around 50k though so looks unlikely.

dare_you got me good too. He ended up paying me back around 18-24 months ago however. He has a real problem with gambling at PLO8 tables with bankrolls. He must have moved onto you after me, I wrote a thing in this thread some time ago but maybe you didn't see it. Hopefully he goes on a heater and gets you your money back.

Name: Ignas Kavaliauskas
Email: pokerstar.ignas@gmail.com
Stars: Sharkh0
FTP: Sharkiux
Country: Lithuania (registered on Stars) but currently living in UK apparently.
Skype: ignayskas

Started staking him mid July. After 2 weeks, he had posted no rail, played outside his buyin limits, played cash games on our stake. I asked for the roll back and profit splits and he kept ignoring me or coming up with BS reasons why he couldn't send (on his tablet). He asked me repeatedly for small reloads and loans. He also asked to dump money to me on Stars and FTP and for me to log into his account to transfer money. When I told him I would post here, he said he already sent the funds back, which he did not.

I had also got a reference from a previous backer who he said was a Lithuanian sng reg "legimantis" but now I am unsure of that now too bc the backer seemed very broke and wanted to split the stake.

He owes us $1220 + whatever profit cuts there might have been, but I suspect he was lying about that as well. Do not stake him and do not trust him.

sharkh0 also won an mtt for about 5k 4 days ago which we obviously have not received a piece of/or our money back when he clearly has it.

An update on this one, which got overlooked at the time. When I say "at the time" I mean of course 3 months later, when we received the bankroll, and a further 6 months, which was when we received a buyout of the remaining MU.

Cliffs are:

Another player in the new stable noticed the NF and alerted the new backer, (Biggest Fish) We had a group chat about the situation, I explained that the player dropped contact for several months, making a stake untenable, but player eventually sent back the ~ $165, which was all that remained of the $1300 stake.

As Biggest Fish seemed totally fair about everything, I suggested he arbitrate and both player and old backer would accept that as binding. Biggest Fish chastised the player for dropping contact and taking 3 months to send back the remaining bankroll and then offered to pay off the remaining makeup at a % which was agreed. Whether or not Biggest Fish absorbed that cost, or recharged the player, I'm not sure. But we took that as final settlement of the debt and consider the matter to be closed.

Full name:Ryan James Alexander

Pokerstars and FTP names:hard-biten and PleaseAppease

2+2,P5s and PTP user names:FreeSample 2+2, hard-biten P5s

Full address:8 Albany Terrace Dundee Angus DD3 6HQ and

and :8 Kinbrae court newport on tay DD6 8HF U.K

and:23 kinburn newport on tay fife scotland DD6 8DE U.K

All your email addresses:moneysunsky@gmail.com

Phone number that I can ring you on now and contact you when I need you:07999666179

Stole $3,000

lost contact with him ,he has now blocked his stats and carried on playing

Name: Chris Bolt, Christopher Bolt
2+2: Cbolt21
Stars: Cbolt21

Player quit stake in early May while in makeup, at a time when he owed me $600 for a separate loan. I agreed to let him out of the makeup (as he claimed he was entering rehab and permanently quitting poker) contingent on timely repayment of the loan. He has not repaid any of it yet, and his last message to me was:

"I find it hard to believe you will post on 2p2 over a $600 debt. I am
paying back the loan because it is the right thing to do, not because
I care about my reputation. I am retired from poker, so my reputation
*does not* matter to me. If you do decide to take that option, I can assure
you the loan won't be repaid."