Name: Rafael Chaves
Stars: tenrafaelpai

We chose to part ways and asked for him to send us the cash he held that is ours. He did not send, left Skype chats, and has not responded to any of our communication attempts.

Name: Bruno Abreu Santos
Stars: Brak1989
888: Brak1989

We asked for an audit. It was off. He admitted he withdrew money for himself ($450).

We set up a repayment plan and he failed to follow through on this.

Name: George-Cristian Varodi
PokerStars: RealGeo

Had the player for 6 months and was probably one of my better horses. Recently his contract came up for renewal and we negotiated terms for a 1-year extension, which he agreed to and signed.

Few weeks later, he told me he wanted out of the contract because another backer had approached him with a better deal. Pretty sure that attempting to 'poach' another horse while under contract deserves Negative Feedback as well, but for now I'll remain on topic.

I told the horse that I was under no obligation to give a better deal. In fact, he was under obligation to finish out the contract he signed. However, I also understood that he might be frustrated by missing out on a slightly bigger cut from another backer and overall I want my horses to be happy, so I'd be willing to make some sort of compromise. That was rebuffed; there was no attempt on his end to compromise. I needed to either match the deal or he was walking out on the contract. Horse said the contracts "aren't really legal" and I was left with a horse who was holding me over a barrel for 5%.

If players can simply leave contracts when it's no longer optimal for them, then what's the point of contracts? And even if I agreed to up the cut this time, what's to stop him from finding another backer one week later and demanding I match that offer of 5% more?

While I don't believe this action is on par with scamming, refusing to honor signed contracts is major issue and calls into question one's integrity. I'm also losing out on 11 months of an agreement with a player who I feel is very +EV, and measure my own lost equity at around $20,000.

Therefore I have no choice but to leave negative feedback.

PokerStars: Calin-Poker
Skype: Calin-Poker

Situation arose out of the post above. Calin-Poker approached a horse of mine who had 11 months remaining on his contract. After asking about his deal, he then offered him a better deal and my horse told me he was leaving. I was put into contact with Calin in hopes of discussing the situation, but he told me that the matter was not with him. I simply could not set a precedent of being extorted by horses, and the horse left to go with Calin.

Undoubtedly a significant part of the blame rests on the horse, but it's incredibly unethical to go around poaching horses from other groups while under contract. Calin has shown no remorse about what he's done, in fact he considers it a favor:



By this logic, all of his horses are free to quit at any time and only responsible for a fraction of the MU. And he has the audacity to tell me I got a deal. What a great deal I got, by being forced to sell an extremely profitable horse (that I didn't want to sell) who I had coached up for 6 months+ for a small amount of MU he accrued in the last two weeks.

Not only did Calin make the initial offer, was complicit in the horse breaking the contract, has no qualms about his actions, but note that he's also the one who paid the MU. So while this might appear to be a standard buy/sell of a horse, it's not. The MU amount was basically held hostage and I had no choice but to accept that as payment or be left with nothing.

And this.

Name: Ronnel Sto Tomas
Stars: IonicNeedles

We chose to part ways and simply asked for the $769 he held in his accounts to be sent back. He has not sent this. Today (roughly a week later) he said he "lost most of it playing for my own" and still has not sent anything.

Name: Daniel Ramirez
Stars: dramir100 and parcerito22

Multi-Accounting.

We cut him and he refuses to send us the $2,162 he holds that is our money.

Pokerstars screen name: micheleale
Real name: Michele Alessandro Badea
Email: aleutss@gmail.com
Skype: ale00ts
Country: Romania
Photo ID: https://gyazo.com/63445aca146f2cf265f6f700d060cacb

We’ve backed micheleale/Michele Alessandro Badea since September, 2016.
Recently he stopped playing due to him moving. We acknowledged that and gave him time. When he wasn’t playing for a while we started posting to him on skype and received no response. It’s been so since the end of November/beginning of December.
Such irresponsiveness gave us no chance but to conclude he decided to run off with our money.
His total makeup/what he owes us is $3,532.00.
More info on pm.

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/sh...postcount=3677

Looking at this post prior to backing him would have helped. Before staking any player you should always type in their screen name using the search function ITT.

Hello,

I am a staker from the netherlands and i want future stakers of Gaasbeek888 on PS to be aware that he used a roll he was given for private use.

For details pls PM,

Pokerstars: med_killer


I met him through a staking site ~April 2016. Eventually offered a makeup deal for micro stakes MTTs. We talked almost daily for months and everything seemed fine.

He owes >$1k and hasn't responded on skype in 30 days. PM for more info.

Name: Bruno Fillipe Carvalho Santos
Pokerstars: Bruniin_f

Did not meet our volume requirements. We gave him the option of parting ways or following our agreement. He chose to stay.

Bruno missed the volume again and we asked for an audit. We found discrepancies in this audit.

We set up a repayment plan which Bruno has failed to follow through on.

thats how med(small monkey)_killer process with all people he owes money then he ll block you
Sorry to hear/read that but you wont ever see back your money he is a piece of ****
got his phone number and his parents adress if needed

Name: Roman Ivanov
Stars: journeytojah

Audit off twice. Has not sent us back even our cash he held when confronted.

I met him through a staking site ~April 2016. Eventually offered a makeup deal for micro stakes MTTs. We talked almost daily for months and everything seemed fine.

He owes >$1k and hasn't responded on skype in 30 days. PM for more info.[/QUOTE]

Sorry for your losses Will, I could see this 6 months ago. The guy goes through money and expects to owe nothing back. Why do you think I gave up staking him so easily when there was MAKEUP attached? No real rail accounting, and he wanted nothing on a site so we had some kind of security. $$ is $$ lost $$ can be won back by honest winning horses. This guy killed my drive to stake others. YOU Should know for yourself I was pushed out with MAKEUP still owing.

TwoplusTwo (and other forums) username: Zuckmeout
Pokerstars Screenname: Zuckmeout
Real name: Jens Engeset
Email: engesetjens91@gmail.com
Skype: jens.k.engeset
Country: Norway

Cliff Notes:

Jens Engeset wasn't playing a lot.
We slightly reduced his limits.
He played more games, but a significant portion (~10%) were not allowed (he subsequently repaid the losses).
We reduced his limits further.
Zuckmeout started playing high-volume sessions with games like the $0.55 turbo included.
We reviewed Zuckmeout's play and it was on a level that indicated that he was losing money on purpose to force us to drop him.

We are dropping Zuckmeout / Jens Engeset and posting negative feedback to inform other backers.

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We backed Zuckmeout / Jens Engeset from October 2015 to now, with a vacation break during the summer of 2016.

Jens Engeset came back from his break a few weeks prior to WCOOP, where he did not do well. After WCOOP Jens Engeset's volume dropped off precipitously.

In November we asked Jens Engeset how he was doing:

[11/14/2016 10:24:42 AM] zuckmeout .: Im feeling lots better, been rly rough last 2 months. Its now out of The world and back to being positive feeling bad about The insane low volume atm but its gonna get much better next weeks

We reminded him that we expect at least 300 games a month and cut his schedule back as his 12-month avg volume was under 200. The changes to his schedule were:

Turbos decreased to $11 (from $16.50)
Turbo Rebuys removed
Bigs decreased to $27 (from $33)
Bounty Builders decreased to $22 (from $33)
Hots decreased to $16.50 (from $22)
No Bubble Rush
No Hypers
$44 Sunday Marathon removed
$55 Sunday Stack removed
$215 Sunday Million removed


We explicitly told him that his schedule wouldn't be reconsidered until he did 400+ games for at least 2 months.

[11/14/2016 10:29:57 AM] Standard Backing: are you going to be able to increase your volume?
[11/14/2016 10:30:24 AM] zuckmeout .: hell yeah, gonna bring it up wayyyyy higher
[11/14/2016 10:44:29 AM] Standard Backing: when do you expect that to start happening?
[11/14/2016 10:51:19 AM] zuckmeout .: Wednesday around 2pm
[11/14/2016 10:51:39 AM] zuckmeout .: Maybe tomorrow


By January 6th he had played only about 475 games (he's locked sharkscope, so hard to get exact number):

[1/6/2017 10:54:36 AM] Standard Backing: You've played less than 1k games in the last 6 months
[1/6/2017 10:55:33 AM] zuckmeout .: i know, we spoke about this 1,5 month ago, and i said i would step it up, so i played 400 the first month, and now ive been busy/injured

At this point we suggested that Jens Engeset buyout his makeup ($12.7k at the time). Jens Engeset offered $0 up front and $100/month going forward. But we declined. We reminded Jens Engeset that he needed to play 400+ MTTs for 2 months for his schedule to be reconsidered. Part of his response was:

[1/6/2017 11:13:29 AM] zuckmeout .: yeah i know, but its not that easy to do, the turneys available on stars is not as big as they used to be, i had to put in like 0,55t and b1 and stuff to get a lot of turneys in:P
[1/6/2017 12:17:20 PM] zuckmeout .: I feel disappointed in the way ive been treated to be honest. It’s seems absurd to just put me way down in stakes like this even tho my results and winrates are good for higher. It’s just hard to keep a very high volume each month cos things will come in the way sometimes. I know my volume for the past months haven’t been great, but I don’t think this is the solution. It feels more like a punishment then anything else wich dosen’t make me very motivated to keep on perform my best, and we both are in this to make money afterall. What do you prefer as a backer 1) A horse that’s not happy about the situation and just reg up very ridiculous stakes and games in forms of variance 2) Or a horse that’s wanna perform better all the time and actuly see progress both in skill and the games. I find it very hard to play an A) game while struggling to just reg up everything that runs on stars just to keep a volume wich I just have to if I wanna move back up, so this feels like just burning money for us both.

On January 8th, we discovered that zuckmeout had played ~100 MTTs in the last 2 days including $0.55 turbo and other such nonsense games for his limits. When asking him about it:

[1/8/2017 10:03:23 PM] zuckmeout .: tbh i play optimal when i 4 table, but i can handle 16-20 at one time easily too
[1/8/2017 10:07:04 PM] zuckmeout .: im just stressing because i would have to make another 2 months of 400 games in a row if i dont make it his month

On January 15th, we discovered that Jens Engeset had been playing many games outside of his buyin limits, since December (a significant portion of Jens Engeset's lackluster volume were games that were not allowed):

6x $44 Bounty Builder
13x $33 Bounty Builder
$27 Deepstack
12 $22 Turbos
$16.50 Turbo Zoom
$11 Hyper
1 $3.30 hyper
2 $1.10 hyper
1 $0.55 hyper
2 $0.27 hyper
1 $1.10 splash ($11 total buyins)
$3.30 Bubble Rush
$2.20 Bubble Rush
2x $0.55 Bubble Rush

Jens Engeset lost a total $181.55, and deposited the difference.

[1/15/2017 1:45:33 PM] zuckmeout: i hope you understand on some level why i did what i did. Im not gonna justify it in any way. Its hard to be told u dont do enough, when what i spend most of my time is poker, and didnt put as much volume in since i want to be at my best when i do play. and didnt want my mu to be unreachable. the variance ive been having is beyond insane so its tough to come back everyday playing low stakes and keep a positive mentality. but hey thats how the world works

Given Jens Engeset's actions we were forced to reduce his limits further:

Regular MTTs reduced to $16.50s (from $22s)
Bigs reduced to $22s (from $27s)
Hots reduced to $11 (from $16.50)
$27 Saturday Eliminator PKO removed
$33 Mini Saturday KO removed
$33 Mini Thursday Thrill removed
$33 Mini Super Tuesday removed

Following this, Jens Engeset's requested a change in coach (which was granted). We had 1 coach review Jens Engeset's PT data and another coach did a review session with Jens Engeset. Both of these showed horrendous play by Jens, to a level commiserate with him likely losing on purpose (compared to his play earlier).

Our only option was to stop working with Jens Engeset / Zuckmeout and to post negative feedback to inform others of the potential issues you might have working with Jens Engeset / Zuckmeout.

Pokerstars Screenname: Robin01poker
Real name: Robin Ignes Martins
Email: robinpokerteam2015@gmail.com
Phone Number: (55)11-948835883
Skype: robin.martins2
Country: Brazil
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/robin.martins.9
Photo ID: https://www.screencast.com/t/xC4ok1mdwz
Photo holding ID: https://www.screencast.com/t/n0oWVK96T6wM
Pokerstars Cashier: https://www.screencast.com/t/nax5ln7C
Known Address: Av. São Gabriel 149 Conjunto 1105 Bairro Itaim Bibi, São Paulo - SP, 01435-001, Brazil

Robin Ignes Martins / Robin01poker disappeared around a week ago and hasn't returned any messages. This is not the first time. The only conclusion we can make is that he's stolen funds.

He owes us $1,800.04

If you have any additional questions please PM us.

Pokerstars: M1sters
Country: Latvia
Amount: €1,044.48

M1sters who was going by name Sandis Ramilovs (fake) outright stole €1,025 from me. (€19.48 are fees I paid when I transferred him money) It was supposed to be a simple swap (skrill for bank wire) but he has never sent a single cent. I am going to make a separate thread on this guy as there is more then enough material, but I felt like a short summary here is also needed.

Edit: I just saw, I am not allowed to make new threads due to my account being fairly new. If one of mods or admins can help me out with this I'd appreciate it, since there is a ton of **** on this guy.


**MOD EDIT** ItsOnlyChips was correct, posting the info here was the right play, but I think this warrants its own thread, so I've moved it to one:

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/23...issue-1653104/

Sorry to say this is my first negative post of the year here and hopefully the last!

I am still hovering around that 1-2% scam rate with over 400 players/contracts backed. So not that bad I guess.

This player has been a nightmare to deal with, he has stolen a few times and broken the stake rules many times. Because he was with me for so long I kept trying to help him and give him more chances.

But we have now got to the point where he is taking my kindness for weakness, so it ends here. DO NOT back this player.

(when I caught him stealing he claimed it was not stealing, just "borrowing". Of course this only came to light when I audited him and found him stealing.)

He never got it into his head, when you cash out someone else's money without there permission it is stealing.

(he had great coaching/software/great cut/pre chops/good network of players, but all wasted on this person!)

He was on a TV show in his country, so kinda of famous I guess. Now he will be famous here for the wrong reasons....

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PS name: handebraken

PS.es name: songok1

Skype name: songoki2

P5s account : http://www.pocketfives.com/profiles/handebraken/

2+2 account:http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/members/319287/

Real name: Marcos Paneque Mateos

Email: songo87@hotmail.com

Phone number: +34626794010

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/marcos.pane...2%3A1486772657

Conversation from today....

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If need be I can post all the proof/audits/screen shots etc when he stole in the past and broke the rules etc.

This is just not completely true Alex. For a start the reason this happened is because i did not fully understand the backing level tier system that was in place, and at the exact time my MU was growing i did not realize completely the way the backing level tier system at pocarr worked, and that i had to drop tiers before i dropped down full levels, in this respect i was at fault and although without malice or intent i am now paying the price. I did not intend or have any plan to continue at a tier level that i was not suppose to be at given my MU at the time and this was completely over looked by me, which i fully regret. I had been in full contact with Alex since he ended the agreement, and he knew i was taking a week out afterwards as we went over it in Skype chat. After a week or so we talked, he had already posted this, but i was completely in agreement to sort payment plan, although i had explained i would need to sort another income source for the time being. Since then i have made suggestions to Alex, and tried messaging him over winter and this last months without any reply. I believe barring this tarded-ness from my side in regards to the level tier system at pocarr, i was and still am a trusted player and i believe that this situation does not rep me as a person or a player. I am currently again skype messaging Alex to get something in place, and i even spent winter trying to get a normal semi-decent job to try to sort things out, but due to time iv spent grinding over the years etc i could not get anything feesable. I have made many attempts at sorting this with Alex, made suggestions etc, and now i await literally any reply from him, as he knows i am willing and waiting to sort this situation out, but seems i cant even get contact with him now and has been this way for months now. For the record i have been in contact and willing to sort this anyway possible, i would like any reply via skype Alex Please, as i am here and wanting to rectify this any way i can. Thanks. Phil

No business conducted on 2+2 but seems a big enough scam to warrant being posted and his name being spread about.

Neil Strike from the UK is a theif and a liar.

https://williehmmm.wordpress.com/201...ef-and-a-liar/

x player paid back.

Wow.

Seen this guy around a few times. Proper scummy thing to do. Well put together article and fully deserved to be outed.

Thanks for sharing.

Holllly **** I'm sorry you had to go through that man. Thanks for sharing.

To clarify i wasn't in any way involved in this. Just felt it needed to be broadcast to as wider audience as possible. Had seen him about on the EPT circuit and at DTD always assumed he was a rich business man with his level of play.

Shared on Twitter ...Obv don't condone any theft or scum act but this is another level .what a disgrace that guy is .... Gl in life and sorry for your loss