Updating for the new year.

We had several discussions with Marek via email and he kept promising the funds that were owing would be paid after we settled on an agreed amount.

He did actually receive funds from the other backer who staked him while he was in make up with us and still has yet to pay.

*this brings up a point for future dealings that backers should consider: If you have staked a guy unknowingly and it is determined that he is scamming/being untrustworthy and you are holding funds that are owed to him, perhaps paying back direct to a backer would make more sense than putting back in the hands of a thief?

I would like to get more feedback on this but imo this would go a long way in deterring these guys from attempting to run a scam as if they are caught their funds will be held until sorted out.... regardless if they are making money for you or not, there is an issue of integrity here folks.

I am not saying that it is the others backers fault for not transferring funds to me, I do however believe that as a community we should look at this and all other avenues to make it more difficult for these less than honourable people to take advantage of others.

Marek has said several times that he is going to pay and just keeps pushing the date back again and again and now he has dropped out of correspondence again.

So it appears that Marek Vassilko has indeed pulled off another fast one talking the second backer into paying him saying that he was going to pay me ... and that has not happened.

...remarkable that people will sell off their names and reputation for a few hundy ...

Cheers,
C.

When do you plan on paying back brad2002tj?

Since he's so casually applying for stakes on 2p2 now:

Name: Leonard August
smoothustler on 2p2: http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/members/120006/
Merge (Lock): luckyleo80
smoothustler on pocketfives: http://www.pocketfives.com/profiles/smoothustler/

I did not back him, friend did and here is the thread in question. You be the judge if he's worth staking.

http://www.pocketfives.com/f10016/ne...0-lock-655918/

Up to the mods if you think this is enough to remove his marketplace approval as he just started actively applying for stakes on 2p2 after what happened on P5s just two weeks ago.

I will pm him. He offered no explanation at P5's? Did he ever do an audit to show his 'playing with fpps' story was true?

this makes me inclined to believe that he's too untrustworthy to be allowed in the Marketplace. But I will give him an opportunity to convince me otherwise.

especially as three years earlier he did exactly the same: http://forum.parttimepoker.com/gear-...s-mad-ban.html

After talking with both parties I have decided that Smoothustler is no longer welcome in the Marketplace until further notice.

The below added 2nd of February, just to show that Leo is an unrepentant idiot.

Stars: slavOuchka

2+2: slavOuchka

Real Name: Miroslav Sheynin


Played things he wasnted supposed too.

Went through an arbitration with a few regs from MTTc, and the regs agreed with me he owed me money back as per the contract he signed. he refuses to pay and feels he is right.

He is pretty unreasonable. would never stake him/invest in him.

PM me with questions.

Time for some leftover cleaning.

1) This person was backed by us previously, and generally did ok, though he definitely had the classic indications of a degen that would only ever be happy when he became broke. Often we had to try to explain to him while moving up to games he could not beat was not particularly good in terms of money even if it satisfied a personality flaw of his in terms of ego.

He was in makeup quite a bit when under an approved one time stake with another player he finished second in the WCOOP heads up event for $40,000 and paid off his makeup at the time and went out on his own.

On his own he had the discipline we generally expected and he spewed away most of his winnings fairly quickly, and recently he came back asking for another stake at the lower games.

We should have passed because we knew he had maturity issues and degen tendencies and minimal life skills, but the fact is some people are decent poker players despite this so with a structured plan we moved forward.

He lost quickly, we reloaded him twice (total of $2,800 invested) and he then had a winning week and vanished.

At that point we learned he actually owed another backer some money as well, so indeed we were a victim of his mastermind scam.

The irony in all of this of course is had he approached us with his situation we would have worked out a professional, structured plan that would have worked out for him, us and the other backer, but alas his need for a couple thousand to temporarily pay for his debts and addictions was more important to him than a long term plan of financial success.

Anyway, he will become a pet project of ours as he is located in a favorable jurisdiction so we will be exploring legal action against him. We realize one cannot easily collect from a deadbeat, but in this case we are happy to spend money pursuing this debt.


With that short intro out of the way, here is his information:


Name: Simon Cross

2+2: crossybig (banned)

Stars user name: Crossybig


Email: <masters_reborn@yahoo.co.uk>


IM contact: crossybig182

Other contacts: sugarcult_fan@hotmail.co.uk - msn





2) Another charming individual. He actually is a solid player and did well for us for a while. Then he had a downswing and that is when he declared that he does not believe in make-up and has no interest in playing any more under a stake. He also mentioned many personal problems ( I believe his girlfriend dumped him, his dog died, lots of grandparents died etc) that were limiting his interest in playing. Naturally he was playing on a different account during this time, and attempts to reach a reasonable solution were ignored.

While he is not a simplistic criminal like Mr. Cross, he certainly is not someone that should be staked unless the backer decides that make-up is not a part of the deal (and good luck with that). At least he has a difficult to manage personality to go alongside his creative approach to an agreed upon contract.


His information is the following:


Name: Jonathan Sokolowski

2+2: Silky

Black Chip Poker (Merge) user name: silkyau

Full Tilt user name: Silkyit

Email: <sokohome@gmail.com>

IM contact: silkyit




3) The most boring for the last. A weaker player we should have never backed who never won much, got into makeup, and vanished. Not much more needs to be said about him, as he likely is making the right choice in never playing poker again.


Name: Orlando Gutierrez

2+2: kaiattack

Pokerstars user name: KaiAttack

FTP name: Mr-KaiAttack

2010 ptp DNS
ptp stakeroll

Email: <kaiattack.pkr@gmail.com>

Skype: kaiattack


edit: new 2+2 account - http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/sh...stcount=117817

Th3perf3ct
Real name: Dinis Geks (?)
Skype name: th3perf3ct

Th3Perf3ct applied to our SNG-Staking 180 man program through e-mail and sent us the required ID and cashier screenshots. We gave him a 200$ roll to start with at the 2.50 180s. During the 1st week, he only played about 20 games and then out of nowhere immediately began regging for 3.50R which he did not have permission to play. We messaged him on skype and he did not reply to any of us and logged off soon after. It was only after we searched the negative feedback thread and on parttimepoekr did we learn that this guy has a history of rolling on stakes. He said his name is Dinis Geks. Whether this is another fake name, we don't know. Here is the ID he sent to us:

Poker Stars - Roo Killa
Full Tilt - Crocodiledave

Name - Dave Fischer


Normally I don't entertain staking applications from new 2p2 accounts, however this one had a solid reference and I verified his stars account.

Hooked

A few things have raised my suspicions, 1. a story about having his ID stolen as a reason he couldn't produce it, finally he sent me a scan saying his wallet was returned, yet when I checked the time stamp on the image it dated from August 2011, I really should have checked this initially before sending the bankroll as I was dubious of this story.

I have made no less than 3 requests for the return of the trial bankroll, he's responded to some requests with, calm down etc, however today the funds have still not been returned, regardless of whether or not there's any scam going on here, I wouldn't advise backing this player. I suspect if there is scam, they are just trying to buy time to scam the max. Thankfully I always limit my BR exposure to new horses.

The number I was provided with is disconnected, I've spoken to Hooked over Skype and he has assured me he wouldn't scam/steal, however at this point I'm not sure I'm even speaking to the real Hooked, perhaps a hacked 2p2 account?

Make of it what you will, until I see the funds returned I'm assuming scam.

Just a quick HU for other backers as I see he's replied to a number of staking threads.

Every bushel has a bad apple... Well not so much bad, as doesn't get 'it'.

Staked player was contracted to play 50NL 6-max and HU no limit cash games on Black Chip Poker. Played within the contract the first few days, but proceeded to play HU 100NL and 200NL, without clearance, and busted the entire bankroll.

When approached about this, the player was not contrite, but rather whined about the “bad beats” and “cold decks” that awaited him in the unauthorized games. Needless to say, there was little empathy on our end.

The player was given two weeks to square a discounted portion of the losses that were in breach of the staking contract or this post was going to go up.

No word back about satisfying the arrangement, so here we are:


Name: Jason Li

2+2: wddjsm

Stars user name: wddjsm
Full Tilt user name: nihontopride
Black Chip Poker (Merge) user name: stackitall

Email: <jason_li1114@hotmail.com >

Skype contact: jasonwddjsm

http://www.oppapers.com/profile/wddjsm/

Hey there,

Just seeing the message on iPhone at work ... Yeah, we have had an issue with him as well ... Just froze his account (second time in less than a week) he did the same thing on our Team ... Is in make up here too.

I will contact you again when I'm home from work.

Cheers,
Colin

Has communicated no interest to me in paying back (or even taking any responsibility for his actions), and was also posting for stakes here on the 16th of the month just after wasting all Azians stake, banned.

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/members/306881/

pokerstars: ahmadrazz (united kingdom)
skype: joao silva / joaoprofpaniksilva (lagos, portugal)
Neteller: luckypokerstar20@hotmail.com

scammed me for 100€ on p2p transfers, i guess he is applying for current stakes

+ http://pokerpt.com/forum/poker-bank-f69/topic21327.html

what ? explain pleasE? someone is using my screename fr sure. PV u

ok, i can confirm i received the money but theres still stuff to be explained.

it seems the user ahmadrazz (stars) is asking for staking on portuguese forums with username santinho. yesterday i talked with ahmadrazz that uses a different skype name and doesn't even speak portuguese, claiming someone used his account and that he would pay me the money to clean his name.

plz check http://pokerpt.com/forum/poker-bank-f69/topic21327.html

http://img130.imageshack.us/img130/1222/evidence4w.png

This be Halengoil, that's his hotmail address. Details here http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/sh...postcount=1212

I posted warnings from his very first post here so hopefully no-one has been daft enough to stake him.

Scammer warning - Fake RasA86.

He is probably scanning the staking thread for skype contacts and asking you to download some sort of trojan or whatever.


[21:47:17] Rodrigo Aranzubia: Stake
[21:47:17] Jan Philippi: Jan Philippi has shared contact details with Rodrigo Aranzubia.
[21:47:30] Jan Philippi: hi
[21:48:52] Rodrigo Aranzubia: Hi my name is rodrigo, rasa86 on starsand we are looking for players to stake for mtts
[21:49:20] Jan Philippi: i just closed a deal 10 minutes ago
[21:49:33] Rodrigo Aranzubia: ok
[21:49:39] Rodrigo Aranzubia: can i know with who?
[21:49:48] Jan Philippi: sheeprustler
[21:50:16] Rodrigo Aranzubia: we are from the same team
[21:50:54] Jan Philippi: aaah
[21:51:23] Jan Philippi: you´re a player on the team?
[21:51:31] Rodrigo Aranzubia: yes
[21:51:52] Rodrigo Aranzubia: he is asking me to evaluate your game by playing some mtts with whole cards
[21:52:34] Jan Philippi: kk
[21:53:02] Rodrigo Aranzubia: can u please download teamviewer
[21:54:23] Jan Philippi: lol
[21:54:31] Jan Philippi: your not on the team
[21:54:37] Jan Philippi: nice try tho
[21:54:39] Rodrigo Aranzubia: if you are not known to this program is to see your screen
[21:54:46] Rodrigo Aranzubia: ??
[21:55:41] Jan Philippi: whats your 2+2 sn?
[21:55:54] Rodrigo Aranzubia: rasa86
[21:59:12] Jan Philippi: there is no rasa86 on 2+2
[21:59:28] Jan Philippi: im gonna report you
[21:59:29] Jan Philippi: cu
[21:59:39] Rodrigo Aranzubia: report me where?
[21:59:49] Jan Philippi: 2+2
[21:59:52] Rodrigo Aranzubia: ok
[21:59:55] Jan Philippi: so ppl know youre trying to scam
[22:00:04] Rodrigo Aranzubia: i see you just lost your stake
[22:00:11] Rodrigo Aranzubia: im going to tell sheep abou this
[22:00:13] Jan Philippi: sheeprustler doesnt even know you
[22:00:22] Rodrigo Aranzubia: ok gl
[22:00:32] Jan Philippi: u2
[22:01:43] *** Jan Philippi blocked Rodrigo Aranzubia ***

Yeah I know the real Rasa86 and thats not even his real name, def a scammer.

Update:
MisoHoneySoup has verified that his staking funds were returned by Dave Fischer using Adrian Leones' (a roommate?) Moneybookers account.

Joshua B Lutz - possibly Sweet Home/Lebanon/Corvallis/Beaverton , Oregon, USA
serial scammer

- in the last year, along with Steve Garrett/fatboy1 these two are criminally responsible for over half of the Marketplace Gift Card and Internet Poker p2p transfer scams on 2+2.


This scammer also seems to be able to find victims who send first and search second.

This scammer continues to sucker new posters into off-site deals via e-mail, skype, etc.

This scammer is known to create new e-mail and poker accounts that MIMIC established accounts.


2+2 accounts - HighRanked, Rawr, RobertSelf, 2kCivicSi, BlackJackMack, KaylaHarlow, DarknessFalls, Sabine, CALLUdown, JessicaCarter, HighwayRobbery, TakenRespect, RakenBank, CaliKid, Balthazars (Aug/2013), Redoga (Dec/2013) + countless more

Carbon - DivineChaos, Jellybean, SickeningCall, abwil2, Hydrex,

RPM - floppinznutz

Juicy - Morbality

Hero - DrawinBlanks

BCP - Starcr0ss3d(unverified), Rakenbank, Morbid, JDMHatch (?)

Lock - TurboSkyline, SoWhatDude(unverified), DesperateCall, richter101

PokerStars - MaxL87, MckaylaAnn, HondaBill2k, thelosingend, wallpaul221, babbydawgg, DontLookup, EDWARDFASTED, ^^surf^^gg^^

FullTilt - ImHereForRush, BlazersFan4Ever, MckaylaAnn, jones981, DontLookup19, USAFJay89

Cereus - paulshelton, 2kcivicsi, DivineChaos

skype name - jeremy jackson
Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/joshua.lutz31
ebay acct - usafjay89
twitter - Joshua Lutz@USAFJAY89 - Oregon
Yahoo messenger - Joshua_lutz31
netrobery@yahoo.com
AIM - poker4adummy, balthazars12 (james richard)
email : redogablake@yahoo.com

------------------------------------------------

probable December, 2013 scams
$275 Lock
$135 ???
$???unknownamount


.

So Joshua Lutz is a scammer, ok.

Slaven Bebek, thief, 24, Zagreb, Croatia. "Im a student of economics, hope i will get a degree soon. "

2+2: Toncizlatar http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/members/299544/ and previously youaredonk. http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/members/173988/ Both banned.

Duda6666 and Slavenbebek on Pokerstars
pimpilimpi ongame and entraction.
pinpilinpi on pokerpro.hr (croatian forum)

- Skype info
pimpilimpi26

Steals money here: http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/sh...ostcount=65252

Double PTP stakeroll here: http://forum.parttimepoker.com/repor...avenbebek.html

http://forum.parttimepoker.com/repor...avenbebek.html

http://forum.parttimepoker.com/members/slavenbebek.html

Name: Toni Heinonen
2p2: toode http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/members/312548/
Stars: toode

Toni and I agreed to a deal just last week. Since then Toni has repeatedly played played games not specified on the stake. Toni pleads ignorance, but for the amount and variety of games he played off the stake I cannot continue staking him. He has informed me that he will not be able to pay me back for stakeback as well as the early cancellation fee involved in the deal.

If you would like more information please PM me.

Mod Note: PM sent to both parties.

lol at bolded portion

Bojan Sasic, Croatia (unconfirmed, but uses Bojan often)

2+2: Alenkkkkk http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/members/313509/ BojanZG http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/members/313533/ Bonjeeee http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/members/218796/ Power101Station http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/members/275753/ berakzg http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/members/265910/ Bonjou187 http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/members/310181/ Kunatella http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/members/290987/ Granzag http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/members/213305/

Pokerstars: Ludibonz, Berakzg, mamagrana, Bonjeeee, bonjour187, bonz187, Kunatella, Granzag, LaganoLagano, aiwasszg

Full Tilt: Bonz187, granazg111, berakzg

Ipoker: bonjour187 + probably any/all of the above.
winner- bonjour187

Party: LaganoLagano

expect:granazg

Skype: gljivar.gljiva and bojansasic@yahoo.com and idaidaida23 and granazg@yahoo.com

Some contact details here: http://i460.photobucket.com/albums/q.../idaidaida.png

Information for the poker community:

Not the part of the biz that I enjoy, however when guys try to roll the stake they have to be outed, particularly after giving more than ample time to set it right.

Randall Gonzales
Squar3b3ar @ 2+2 http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/members/166454/
filipinoy2006@yahoo.com
squar3bear on Skype
P0kedherstar @ Stars, formerly squar3b3ar
Sweepthis @ BCP
rg1988 ENT
whoami187 FTP

Randall is in make up $300, broke contractual obligations by dropping out of contact, played limits that he was not staked for and has continued to stretch out this process so that we would not post anything.

He did actually reach out after a few weeks of no contact and admitted what had happened as per a part of his email here (late last year, Dec.27/11)

"I wanted to inform you before the new year starts that I have busted the roll on BCP. It seems that I'm still not fit to play on a mental level. My current make up now is $300 and I do plan to buy my way out"

and another email outlining his error: (Jan.11/12)

"Here are the stats, I didn't follow the BRM guidlines which resulted to a wrong on my part so I apologize to you and vince for how I handled this again. Just let me know what I can do so we can work something out on my make up. Will be waiting for your response so I can make this right this time."

*Reference to Vince is my partner vinivici9586 ... not a great guy to roll a stake on if you would like a future in the poker industry as he is a highly respected member of the community.

We have been patient, it's been about two months since the roll was busted and I have had several chats with Randall and he has asked for some time and we have given what we believe is an ample amount of time to do the right thing.... we still have not received $1 towards his make up.

I have informed Randall that we are forced to post this up as we have an obligation to the poker community and if he feels that he has the integrity to do the right thing and pay back what he owes for breaking guidelines and has admitted to, then we are offering him the opportunity to do that.

If he pays back his make up, we will post that he has cleared his debt and he will be free and clear of any obligations to us and we will have his personal information removed so as to avoid any further public scrutiny.

I will be providing him with a link to this post and he will have the opportunity to add any thoughts or comments if he feels that he is being treated unjustly.

Cheers,
Colin & Vini