HO HO HO!!! The holidays are upon us, and one of our gifts to the community is exposing some players who made it to Santa’s naughty list this year.
1)
Guilherme Saraiva Rebelo
Pokerstars ID: gsr1703
Location: Brazil
Email:
rebelopoker@gmail.com
Skype ID: rebelo1703
We backed gsr for quite a while until early 2014, and we all did very well as he played (for the most part) the games we knew he had a huge edge in. However, after a couple of very nice scores he wanted to go to a different staking group that would allow him to play any game he wanted, including ones where he definitely was not a good spot to participate.
We settled up, and wished him luck, and were not too surprised to see he lost about $100,000 for the rest of the year with his new game mix.
We assume the other backers eventually tapped out, and he asked to be backed again this year by us. We knew it was a huge gamble, because he had that need to play higher buy ins addiction that got him into his huge debts (apparently he had considerable loans as well during that time). We set some very firm guidelines with making money being the primary goal, and he did follow them for a while, and won a few thousand dollars.
Unfortunately, the fever overtook him and he started playing all sorts of games he should not have played, and safe to say the -100% ROI he achieved in those games was crushing his results in the games he could beat, so that resulted in a net downswing of about 4,000-5,000.
It was at that point he told us with all his debts and pressures he could not play poker anymore and he was studying to go into the aviation field as a steward or something. That certainly created an amusing spot for us, since he claimed he would only be able to play 1 day a week, if that.
Still, against out better judgment, we gave him one more chance with a $700 reload with a very strict schedule and an incentive plan to slowly clear makeup. He never played that, and instead tossed the money into 215s and above, which did not last long with his ability to maintain a -100% ROI in those games.
Still, he had some funds left and we asked for them back, and unfortunately all we got back were promises to pay the money. A couple deadlines passed, and the last comment he made to us was that if we posted a negative feedback on his theft then he would never pay us back.
Obviously, once someone says that it means we are never going to be paid back anyway, so here is the post – one of the few negative feedback posts I was not that eager to post after a player stole money from us.
Still, he did outright steal, and once a person does that he will always do it again when given the chance.
2)
Pedro Olivera
Pokerstars ID: moinha82
Location: Portugal
Email:
pedro.oliveira2012@gmail.com
Skype ID: Moinha82
We backed this player for quite a while as well. He generally did well in the 180s, but insisted on playing MTTs where he helped the poker economy. He was slowly clearing makeup playing the 180s, with minimal MTT donations, when Portugal got booted from Stars.
Of the couple dozen players we back in that country, we relocated nearly all the others to different rooms without a problem, but Pedro basically vanished around the time that Portugal was removed. By the time he came back in contact, the ability to transfer back his cashier balance to us on Stars had passed, so he had to withdraw it to Skrill, and apparently his ability to do a transfer on Skrill was lost as well, because he needed the money for other purposes.
The sad this is we would have done a loan (the amount stolen was pretty small – a few hundred dollars), but he never gave us the chance, even after working with him for a long time.
He likely has not played poker in months, and his game was marginal even before his “break,” so we doubt he will ever ask anyone else for backing, but safe to say he will steal if the opportunity presents itself.
3)
Fabricio Maranhao
Pokerstars ID: AArielBahia
Location: Brazil
This player vanished with a small amount of money (around $100) and he helped validate why we give new players relatively small bankrolls to start. We looked at his hands, and he probably saved us money by stealing the small amount in his cashier.
He has not played since, and like most in this thread he is likely done in this industry.
That’s it, and we hope everyone has a happy holiday and may all players and backers be on the “nice list” next year!