Had a buddy of mine apply for a stake recently,
got accepted by 3 different stables on here. (before going with dimitris)

all of them asked for that info and then some.


think you overreacted.

An interesting theory to say the least.

Tradingh got pretty lucky to not end up backing this person imo.

Omaha I think you should request to have your comments deleted to at least save a little face. Everything above is 100% standard. These people are just meant to trust people all over the world that they may never meet with money without gathering as much info as possible? would you do that? Jesus christ.

Nothing has changed other than hes defriended me on facebook after posting on his wall asking about ignoring me for months while owing me money/dipping out on his stake agreement and loans. Also he was seen saying this in a skype chat with some of his friends so clearly hes still playing or someone is funding him at this point on new screen names or accounts.

[3/31/2016 8:48:56 PM] Mark Lapino: milly endof next month u playin son
[3/31/2016 8:49:14 PM] TomoDaK: i always satty in
[3/31/2016 8:49:20 PM] TomoDaK: respect my satty skills

I've asked some of his close friends if they have talked to him recently but they've denied any interaction which is pretty hard to believe. Been over 4 1/2 months since hes cut off all communication with me.

He's paying it back.

This guy its not a scammer, but someone that dont show any type of respect when his get a no from a backer, and start insulting.

I reply to his first insult with respect, but he decide to continue with that, so just a warning to other backers, in case he apply too (well, not easy any backer take him, considering his stats, anyway!!):



Eduardo Mecawi, from Brazil


iwacem at Stars

Name: Matt Block
Email: mblock304@gmail.com
Skype: mbl0ck

Information: We started staking Matt in June of 2015. He played a mix of 50NL-200NL HU as a start. After doing well, we moved him up to 400NL and 600NL, where he eventually went on a large downswing. After moving down, Matt's communication and volume slowed heavily over the next several months.

In an effort to spark a renewed interest in poker, we moved him over to HUSNGs, a game he formerly played full time at. Things went well for a few months and we gave him some goals to move up. Recently, we added cash games back into the mix and Matt has ceased all contact with us as of May 23/16. We have emailed and skyped to no avail.

We found out from some of the poker sites that he was playing on that he has withdrawn the bankroll from his player account , which would equate to stealing.

Matt Block appears to be a scammer and thief and is not to be trusted.

He Owes $6322 USD + 5028 Euro

Usernames:
ftp: house_of_aa
stars: kk_nogood_aa
party: el_ojorojo, kr_reykjavik77
ipoker: tortillasplz

Interesting article featuring Matt called " Living The Dream" ... perhaps we will now see part 2 called " Living The Dream , Off Other Peoples Money"

Links: http://www.businessinsider.com/onlin...-carmen-2014-7

Jakub deposited $600 today (His weekly max) and transferred $400 to my account, leaving the remaining $200 as a tentative bankroll. At this point I've added him back to my group and am giving him a second chance. Will continue to update this situation in the coming weeks.

This player has contacted us via email and we will update this thread once we get further information and details on the situation.

Sent us the full amount today that he stole. Taking down his website now.

An update to this thread: It has been 24 hours and Matt Block has not sent us the requested documents via email. We have asked for: 1) All screen shots from all sites played on showing HEM/PT data for 2016.

2) Individual screen shots showing play at each site independently from April 1st until today's date ( HEM/PT data and stats and graphs )

Matt has claimed no wrong doing and he has claimed he has not scammed. We will continue to wait for him to send these documents + answer all questions and continue to update this thread as this progresses. Matt HAS stated that he has almost all of his documents in order and will send them to us soon, so we will update this thread when that has been received/we analyze it. As a side note, if any reputable member of the 2+2 marketplace and community would like to arbitrate and provide their opinion on this matter, we'd be happy to share some information with that person.

Today, Jakub finished 2nd in the Phase 2 for a five figure score and immediately chopped the profit, after paying back the MU/loans incurred with me. In addition he sent a portion of the funds owed to a previous backer.

So far, it appears he's making the most of his second chance.

First appearance here:

2+2:

granazg
Location - croatia zagreb
Interests - poker
Occupation - city working
Games & Stakes - 6max sng 6$-25$

PokerStars: granazg



emails: granazg@yahoo.com & granaebay@gmail.com

Skype : aiwassszg

Real Name: Hrvoje Gojevic-Zrnic; goes by "Grana"

Facebook here: https://www.facebook.com/grana.granas?fref=nf
- Hrvoje Grana Gojevic Zrnic

Other info: mentioned in Skype that owns French Bulldog, which is confirmed by Facebook pictures.

Basic background:

This scammer withdrew ~$800 of $900 that I sent, either by directly withdrawing or by transferring to other PS accounts. I confronted him after he supplied fake graphs to justify his supposed "losses", and he admitted the withdrawls. I still could not get him to engage despite numerous 'second chances' and a couple of smaller transfers to him "to get him back playing" went the same way. He has since cut off all contact with me.

I obtained from him full Cashier History and Playing Audit at the time of confronting him. Here's the first part of the cashier history showing my initial transfer to him of $280 (from 'onthestoop' on 19/5/2016). You can see that within 9 minutes of receiving my first transfer in, he had transferred out $100, and his first cashout comes later that same day. Needless to say, none of these withdrawals were authorised.



He claimed to be running bad, supplied doctored PokerTracker graphs and requested bankroll top ups, which I provided until my growing suspicions could no longer be ignored. Given his previous appearance on this thread I assume he is a professional scammer.

If you need further info, please let me know.
Regards,
Tim64/onthestoop

That name kuksazg is very familiar, Tim. Known scammer here as well afaik.

Name: Gintars Latkovskis
Pokerstars SN: Dreworks
Skype: bukins999

Do not stake Gintars Latkovskis!

Gintars was accepted for a staking deal with me at the beginning on May 2016, to play 180 man SNGs.

After a bad start and a few small reloads, I noticed his sharkscope results didnt match up with the frequency he was asking for reloads. I requested he sent a screenshot of trans history whilst mid conversation to which he disappeared offline and returned later with a screenshot, everything looking legit.

I then requested he screenshared so I could view I could view his account history live, to which he made a big fuss about how he shouldnt have to and that its not in the rules (even though its stated in his contract). He again disappeared, coming back the next day admitting that he had been withdrawing money from the cashier and had photoshopped his trans history sshot, erasing the withdrawal entries.

He agreed to repay at the end of May, he didnt. He asked for one more week, which I granted. He has not repaid, nor contacted me on skype and its now 7 days after his latest payment date.

Total amount stolen was $650. Do not stake Gintars Latkovskis, he is a liar and a thief

Could have saved yourself some money if you'd have checked this thread first (post 3045).

Name: Leandro Castaño Sanchez
Stars: dazaz

We chose to part ways with Leandro and he has not responded nor sent us the Pocarr money he holds. It has been 5 days and he has been on Facebook. We sent messages via Skype, Email, and Facebook.

No kidding, that was one of my more enjoyable and detailed posts as well! No idea how someone (who is aware of this thread) still backs a life donk / degen like that these days.

Anyway, the next negative feedback is rather dull in comparison.


Name: Vikram Digpal

Pokerstars ID: SlikVik11

Location: Looking for winning betting slips on the floors of betting shops in England

Email: vikramdigpal@hotmail.co.uk

Skype ID: slikvik11


A player who used to win, but we realized soon after backing him that it was a mistake (in terms of an investment) due to his out of date ability. We were not able to cut him because he completely vanished (with $100 or so left in the cashier) over a month ago.

He does not reply to skypes nor emails, and we have no idea if he is alive, but we can safely say that his poker game the past few weeks has been as good as it will ever get, so realistically he should maintain that game selection and volume moving forward.

SCAMMER!!! Fabian came to us for a stake as soon as he got the money his communication was terrible. After we messaged him asking why he had not began his grind after receiving the bankroll he eventually got back to us saying he would begin the next day. He then went silent again and did not grind. He finally responded 2 days later saying he was at work the whole weekend and did not check his Skype and he would grind that day. Again silence. After messaging him once again that day he finally started playing but left no update as we had requested and then stopped responding to messages once again. At this point we decided enough is enough and it was time to end the deal. We told Fabian he had 24 hours in which to send back the roll or we would post him and once again he did not respond. This seems typical of the kind of behaviour of a scammer so we are posting this to warn others so he cannot scam other stables. We will update if/when Fabian sends back the money. For now Fabian should be considered a scammer and not to be trusted. His Stars screen name is FabianBrooks

UPDATE- Update on scammer scumbag Fabian Brooks. Today we posted on Tiltbook about Fabian and he responded it. Its a long read but it just further demonstrates the sort of person Fabian is
http://tiltbook.com/toppokerstaking/status/155902 (Picture of Fabian)

Fabian is a clear scammer scumbag thief and no one should ever do buisiness with him.

RebuyVille you should link him to the post.
You are a bit pushy and Anal



But he did steal though and does owe you the bankroll at least.

Stars: InfectedO226
Name: Oleg Kuchma
Location: Ukraine

Agreed with player that he could end his stake in makeup on good terms if he repaid a certain fraction of the makeup amount. The time for him to pay has now passed and he's unresponsive. Do not stake.

We have created this account to post the full details of our experience with Fabian Brooks. This person is by far the worst person we have ever had to deal with. Apologies in advance that this will be a long post but we feel that this needs to be brought to the attention of the poker community.

After sending Fabian the bankroll he had told us he would begin to play upon receiving the money. When he did not do this we asked him why that was. He replied he received the roll late and would start the next day, which is reasonable. After this he did not start the next day and then went silent. Obviously this is suspicious behavior and a bad start to the deal, especially considering Fabian was very talkative before we had sent the money and this was his first time being staked. He finally got in contact 2 days later after us telling him we would be assuming he scammed and posting that if he did not respond within 24 hours. We then warned him about not communicating with us (which he did not even bother to respond to.) and we requested an autidt which he did not provide. At this point after him going offline and not responding again we decided we no longer wanted to work with him which we are allowed to do as stated in the contract. We then asked him to send back the bankroll which he has not done (scammer). After posting about him scamming on Tiltbook he then responded. Acording to his ridiculous logic, because it is not explicitly stated in the contract that he must send the bankroll back at the end of the deal he therefore is entitled to keep the money for himself. I also pointed out to him that if he wanted to play the semantics game then we actually did not say the deal was over but rather to quote directly ''we think its best we just cancel the deal for now and we can look at a deal again wen u are going to be more commitd to it u have until tonight to get in contact and send us back the roll or we are just gonna assume u scammed us and post''. Regardless anyone can see this is just a pathetic attempt for him to justify him stealing.

Fabian also claimed we were ''micromanaging scum'' and messaging requsting updats and audits ''every hour'' this is again completely untrue we requested one audit from Fabian after it was looking very likely something shady was going on. We challenged Fabian to post evidence of his claims which he has not and can not do since it is just more pure lies from him. All this can be seen in the Tiltbook post we made which I will link at the end of this post. I will post some gems from the man himself just to let everyone know the kind of scumbag Fabian Brooks is:

spinswarrior54: When you dropped me you lost all right to the funds in the account ffs. If you didn't it'd just be a complete freeroll. Makeup, bankroll...whatever, it doesn't matter. All the funds in the account become mine once you drop me. Nowhere in the contract does it say I have to ship back the bankroll after getting dropped

spinswarrior54: BTW I'm willing to negotiate on the audit. If you make another post here (and on 2+2) admitting you've made a huge mistake and this was all your fault, I'll give you the audit for $50 instead.

spinswarrior54: 'It's best we cancel the deal' is obviously a drop you ****ing cretin. If your boss at work came up to you and said 'I think it's best we let you go', you know 100% sure that's a firing. Do you think my poker account is some sort of bank where you can deposit and withdraw funds whenever you like without penalty? Get to ****

spinswarrior54: Well in my contract it says nothing about having to send back the bankroll when the stake is over. So it means I can keep the money. I asked a poker mate on skype this and he said when the deal ends horses normally keep the bankroll. Also this guy was complete micromanaging scum, threatening to post on 2+2 after 5 hours without contact ffs, I deserve that money for putting up with 4 days of his ****.


This clown then goes even further and claims that its about ´´morals and justice´´ absolutely laughable way to try and justify his disgraceful behaviour.

spinswarrior54: I'm not stealing any money, I'm just keeping money that is rightfully mine. It's not about the amount it's about morals and justice, and making sure thus scumbag thinks twice before trying to scam other horses.

When people pointed out how utterly stupid his ´´logic´´ was he then started claiming he took the money as a form of compensation for how we treated him so badly (a claim which he is still yet to back up with a single shred of evidence)

spinswarrior54: Well anyway at this point I just see the $100 as payment for having to deal with this guy for 4 days. Just look at those Skype logs, lol.

Fabian Brooks is just a complete and utter scumbag who is either incredibly stupid, highly deluded or both. No one should ever stake him or do any sort of buisiness with him whatsoever.

Full name; Fabian Tobias Nathaniel Brooks
Pokerstars screenane; FabianBrooks
Hometown; Blackburn
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/fabian.brooks.7?fref=ts

Link to the Tiltbook thread in which Fabian manages to make himself look even worse:http://tiltbook.com/toppokerstaking/status/155902

Feel free to contact us on Skype if you would like any more details.

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Name: John Meinwieser

Screen names : WSOPNJ/888NJ - JMein89/Uberdonk

Skype - JMeinweiser

Email : JMeinweiser@outlook.com

Initial thread seeking stake:

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/13...offer-1582175/


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In January of 2016 I offered John an initial stake ($400) to play 20NL on WSOPNJ from 20 January to 1 April 2016. He agreed to all terms in writing, and began play on 20 January.

Things went extremely well at first and I agreed to let John take a 5 buy-in shot at 50NL. From what I was told this shot did not go well, and to compound things he claimed to have lost the remaining bankroll at 20NL in short order as well. When John inquired about a reload I explained to him that before I would consider a reload, I wanted to see a full audit of cashier and playing history, review hands with him, and implement other measures to ensure the viability of the stake going forward. To this day I have never received any screenshots or documentation of his play beyond the first few winning sessions.

At this point (February 2016) John became quite apologetic and offered to simply repay the stake. I generously agreed to allow him to re-pay me in $50 increments, the first of which was due to be paid in early March. From March until May I was met with constant excuses and have not received any payments to date. My last contact with his email account was on May 18, 2016, at which time I was told to expect payment the first week of June. I have emailed and contacted him via Skype weekly since then and have not received a reply.

Meanwhile, I learned that after entering into an agreement with me, John was simultaneously seeking stakes from at least 1 other backing group. He did not disclose to other groups that he was currently in an arrangement and represented the funds in his account as a loan from a friend and at one point even offered the remaining balance in his account to be included in any new stake he was offered.

When confronted with this fact by myself and others, he admitted to this deceit and apologized, once again reiterating his intention to repay the stake.

At this point, I am only posting this as a warning to the community and will request this post be removed if John repays the full amount outstanding.

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Cliffs:

-staked for $400
-funds disappeared without evidence
-sought stake from other backers while under contract
-admitted wrong-doing and offered to repay
-has not made any efforts to resolve since February