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Old 08-07-2011, 07:21 PM   #61
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Re: Cliff notes of the 'Portuguese Poker Prodigy' Jose "Girah" Macedo scam

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[05/08/2011 17:32:19] josé maria macedo: i just made a mistake
[05/08/2011 17:32:24] josé maria macedo: just dont ruin my life
[05/08/2011 17:33:08] josé maria macedo: ive already told my mum
LOL. This is ****ing hilarious
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Old 08-07-2011, 07:22 PM   #62
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[1:07:00 AM] Nick Frame: and were not going to make some ridiculous 2p2 post

Whoops...
yeah i mean, i was trying to get him to tell me as much info as possible. i also didn't KNOW at this point he was actually CHEATING us.
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Old 08-07-2011, 07:22 PM   #63
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Re: Cliff notes of the 'Portuguese Poker Prodigy' Jose "Girah" Macedo scam

Sick amount of begging/desperation by girah in the chat, it's really rather pathetic how hard he tried to convince Moss by promising to quit poker forever (lol at how that could be enforced).

Thanks for the logs, Moss, and am looking forward to anything you've got with DIH or JM (or anyone else if it's relevant).
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Old 08-07-2011, 07:23 PM   #64
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Re: Cliff notes of the 'Portuguese Poker Prodigy' Jose "Girah" Macedo scam

[1:24:37 AM] Nick Frame: actually im not sure
[1:24:43 AM] Nick Frame: and yes i did like u a lot
[1:24:47 AM] Nick Frame: and may still
[1:24:52 AM] Nick Frame: def less than i did
[1:24:55 AM] Nick Frame: but we'll see

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Old 08-07-2011, 07:23 PM   #65
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Re: Cliff notes of the 'Portuguese Poker Prodigy' Jose "Girah" Macedo scam

well, i think it's time to prepare those websites...
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Old 08-07-2011, 07:24 PM   #66
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Re: Cliff notes of the 'Portuguese Poker Prodigy' Jose "Girah" Macedo scam

"I used to like you"
"You don't like me any more?"
"Does Matt still like me?"

Is this typical skype content in the high stakes poker world?
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Old 08-07-2011, 07:24 PM   #67
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yeah i mean, i was trying to get him to tell me as much info as possible. i also didn't KNOW at this point he was actually CHEATING us.
I know, at the time it was the truth, but now it does look silly.
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Old 08-07-2011, 07:25 PM   #68
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they're moving in together per:
This is a minor and possibly inconsequential point, but i didn't see it mentioned in the last thread so i'll throw it in here: prior to moving to portugal, all 3 were planning to live in canada together, so it wasn't just a last-minute plan the three would co-habit because Cates couldn't enter Canada.

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first the three of us favoured getting an apartment here in Lisbon, but then we decided we’d prefer getting a house in Vancouver to be closer to Phil Galfond and other poker players. So we were all set to go; bought myself a $3500 plane ticket (would be the first time I flew first class :/), started getting ourselves a house organised, and then JungleMan (who was headed to Vancouver first) managed to get himself deported… So we’re now back to the previous plan of meeting here in Lisbon (although Puerto Rico is currently also a possibility). Sorry I can’t give you guys a clearer idea of what’s happening in my summer, I wish I knew myself! Edit: It’s now confirmed both JungleMan and Haseeb will be coming to Portugal this month. Now to find a house again since the one we had previously looked at is taken :/

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Old 08-07-2011, 07:26 PM   #69
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[1:47:38 AM] Nick Frame: i am not making that decisons. its the group's decision.
[1:48:26 AM] Nick Frame: you can trust us, to make the right, fair decision.

+1, I agree with your decision here.
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Old 08-07-2011, 07:33 PM   #70
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I actually read all of the convo.

Wow just wow . . .
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Old 08-07-2011, 07:34 PM   #71
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Re: Cliff notes of the 'Portuguese Poker Prodigy' Jose "Girah" Macedo scam

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fwiw the period in which you're describing us as particularly naiive appears to be one chat log that all occurred in the same period which was essentially nick trying to get him to out himself since we'd already realised what was going on. Regarding the rest, I agree we were naiive but when all of the chat messages are spaced apart by a few days, other strategy and LC is posted and on top of that none of the messages are looked at with any inkling of suspicion (since none of us had formulated any doubts about Jose) I think it would be (and was) very possible to overlook what now looks like blatant scamming.
I should clarify myself by saying that I have a lot of sympathy for you guys(as should be clear from my posts made today) and I really think you need to go over your HH's over past several weeks to see if theres any other signname you lost to for a significant amount who might've been either girah or even DIH/jungleman. dont take chances and assume that people are innocent when they are giving you all signs that they might not be.

This is also why I think its crucial for the community as a whole to demand immediate and complete answers from Dogishead and jungleman. They are the two guys who vouched for girah and backed him. They are paying back you guys which is very strange since this was supposedly all girah's work and he's obv not busto and has the money to pay you back himself. Unless, of course, they knew that he didnt have the money to pay back, which means they need to come clean with what they knew all along about him. Also jungleman owes durrrr an explanation as to why he was moving to Portugal to live with a mediocre player who was dying to play durrrr. Haseeb needs to explain why he shared passwords of his accounts with girah and also logged in under girah's account to play poker.

We need to get to the bottom of this and thank you for making it public and now we need to all find out the truth for the sake of poker.
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Old 08-07-2011, 07:35 PM   #72
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Re: Cliff notes of the 'Portuguese Poker Prodigy' Jose "Girah" Macedo scam

ty for making this thread
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Old 08-07-2011, 07:36 PM   #73
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holy crap, the chat logs are VERY interesting. Even though you guys know pretty much everything that happened, I recommend reading the chatlogs. Crazy stuff.. Girah is just.. a blatant liar, it's crazy to see how inconsistent he was in his account of the story.. god damn.
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Old 08-07-2011, 07:39 PM   #74
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So jungle and dog planned to move to Portugal before this was revealed and they werent scammed and Jose played on dogs account, nice.
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