Name: Róbert Termeczky
Stars: termo80

After six weeks with us, Robert asked us to increase his stakes. One of our questions we always ask when reviewing move-up requests is "Will you need a loan in the next 3 months?" Robert responded "not likely" to this.

Days after submitting this answer, Robert asked us for a loan. Being this early with us and having this type of communication issue is not something we have patience for.

We informed Robert we were choosing to part ways. We asked he send the Pocarr cash he holds to us and explained he owes us none of the makeup--that would be written off. Robert left our Skype chats, deleted me as a Skype contact, and has not sent us any funds. It has been ~48 hours.

Given we do not know the exact amount in Robert's accounts and that he's not communicating with us, we're marking this down as $200 owed (the full starting bankroll amount). We are still ignoring the makeup.

Robert owes us $200.

Real name : Anderson Lima Barbosa
Pokerstars screenname : saiiizika
Address : R Manoel Quintao 266,Guarulhos ,SP, 07052090,Brazil
Email : adntexass@gmail.com
Skype : anders0n.o7

We worked with Anderson Lima Barbosa from September 2016 to March 2018. At the end of 2017 Saiiizika decided to take a 2 month vacation, upon returning in February saiiizika started playing many games outside of his allowed limits. Upon questioning his reason for playing disallowed games he said that he "was playing great".

We explained that this was unacceptable and gave him another chance. On the next audit of his games played, Saiiizika had played many more MTTs above his limits.
Because Anderson Lima Barbosa had used up all his money on his 2 month vacation he couldn't repay us for the misused funds, and we can't continue working with him.

He owes us $15,122

Name: Jorge Rafael Marçal Moreira
Stars: Rafa_Wins

Jorge missed our volume requirements in December 2017 and January 2018. He missed our study requirements in January 2018. Jorge had explained he would do some traveling in January which we said was no problem. We continued sending Jorge money to play with and continued paying for coaching.

Jorge recently said he does not wish to continue playing poker and will not set up a repayment plan for makeup.

We must recommend not backing Jorge should he ask.

Pokerstars Screenname : Fabinhofbo
Country: Brazil.

We started working with Fabinhofbo in March 2017.

Fabinhofbo quit while in makeup $2,662.

Pokerstars Screenname: noviswag
Real name: Tomas Novak
Email: novys6@seznam.cz
Skype: noviswagg
Country: Czech Republic
Owing : $256 bankroll, $1k Makeup

We dropped Tomas a few months back for low volume and no effort. He begged for ages for us to give him another chance, which we did. He started again in January. He ran up $1k MU and then announced he was leaving us because we don't offer enough coaching or material. He has at least 3 coaches to choose from and multiple sessions of coaching each week. He even had another player within the stable coaching him, for free.

I've asked Tomas to help us get an agreement on the $1k owed. He has now joined another stable, who are well aware of his attitude and what he owes.

If anyone wants to know where to find this man please contact me, I can help.

I have already posted in this thread about him
He stole 250$ from me after starting a stake and disappearing then gave excuse it was stolen and disappeared again

His mother kicked him out when he stole my 250 as well.
This was 3 years ago

Got repaid like year ago, and now i was asked to remove this by him,from new skype account. Honestly i had problem finding info about this guy, and got scammed, so i would prefer to keep it here, because i believe he is hunting for another victim. Question is should i remove this or just keep post here and add that he repaid, even it took long time? Thanks for help

I would suggest that you keep the post, since it doesn't contain any sensitive info and potential backers will be interested in knowing about your case.

To be fair I would add that he cleared things up.

Name: Stefan Codreanu
Pokerstars: 29kidofwar29

Stefan was playing games with our funds that we did not agree on. When asked about this he said he had money in his account so he played it (our money). We chose to part ways and asked that he send us the Pocarr cash on hand held--even agreeing to write off the $2k makeup he'd accumulated.

He asked to play with this money (take it as a loan) and we declined.

Stefan has not returned our money to us and it has been 10 days.

Stefan owes us $711.77.

Update: he gave back 1450$, promising he will return the rest

We have agreed on the money and this is being worked out now. I won't be asking for access to my old account or anything else so Mike Haven's theory is invalid.

Real name : Thomas Myrbråten
Pokerstars screenname : Superf1sh
WPN screenname : PRINTPRINT
888 screenname : SwagDullars
Party Screenname : crushingppl
Address : Humlevegen 16,Oppaker 2166, Norway.
Email : r1mmerules@live.no
Skype : r1mme123
Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/thomas.myrb...=pb_friends_tl
Cashier :

Thomas Myrbråten has not responded to communications with us over the last several weeks. Based on our most recent conversations it appears he's quit poker and took on a job. Thomas Myrbråten borrowed $2,888 and has not made payments, a payment plan or communicated regarding this debt.

We strongly discourage anyone from transacting with Thomas Myrbråten in any manner.

Will update if he sends.

serious question cause thats a recurring theme for pocarr that people steal for "life situations?"
Is this not a part of like pre qualifying questions to get staked to ask about the persons life situation?

do other backers do this? is not done?

sure someone could just lie about it. but im willing to bet this filters out a decent amount of these situations ahead of time just by getting to know the people

Let me start by saying that while we in the poker community often chide fellow members about Bankroll Management, most people (poker players and non poker players alike) are terrible when it comes to real-life bankroll management. They have little to no savings, massive debt, and live well above their means. Even if they manage to come into a decent chunk of money (i.e. bink a score!), too much is squandered on 'living it up' and soon enough they're struggling once again.

I've been a backer for ~2.5 years now and in that entire time, I can't recall a single player admitting that their financial situation was anything less than 'fine' during the interview process. A few straight up lied, others felt embarrassed, and surely some of them were simply delusional. Point being, asking the question doesn't accomplish much.

Ref: 2+2: navigator
Poker sn: oriole_18
Resolved, Invertible can confirm after I have sent second half on Sunday. Vale, nunquam iterum.

i know about your backing since you did back someone that i was friends with (Bonez).
But those questions you ask in the beginning... it has to help at least weed out a few of them. i would find it hard to believe everyone types/chats the same way. some should be a bit more obvious to how their situation is.

I'm not entirely certain if Pocarr is asking that particular question, but I'd be surprised if it wasn't part of the initial interview. While I'm not on board with all of Pocarr's business practices, in this situation I don't think the onus falls specifically on them.

Re: Bonez (Corey), this thread is obviously reserved for the bad horses, but I'm gonna take a paragraph to talk about how awesome he is/was. In addition to being a solid grinder, Corey made himself available for nearly every coaching session and brought a lot of light/levity to the group chats.

he is a good dude.. life took me in a different path and havent kept that in touch with him unfortunately.


it just seems like a good bunch (ill estimate about or around 50%) of these "scammers" mention that their life situation is pretty terrible so thats why they had to take the money.
I could be wrong though

Yes we always ask these questions. We specifically ask "If you were to break even at the tables for the next three months, how would you pay your bills?"

Most people will say they're fine but perhaps 10% will tell us that things would be tight. We can then make a decision as to how to proceed with that information.

The last 4-5 guys we've posted have been from Romania and I believe it was malicious, not just random poker players being short on money.

A player with the Stars name "Noneeck" and Stars.es name "Naneekc" is posing as the player "Naneeck".

We accepted this player - Naneeck

The documents we received were from the two players above. We asked him to join our homegame (to verify he owns the account) and he joined under those two names that are close, but not quite "Naneeck".

These attempts at scamming are becoming more common.

We accepted player "Skollpada". He submitted a screenshot of his Stars cashier and joined our homegame as "SkoIIpada" with capital "i" replacing the "l".

You can easily tell the difference on this forum but they are identical on Stars.

Be careful.

Name: Genaro Grieco Tagliaferri
Stars.eu: ggrieco
Stars.es: ggriecoStar
888: ggrieco14
Party: ggrieco1

Genaro had his Stars account closed. He's been trying to resolve this for over a month now. Something about multiple IP's is all we know.

It has been 34 days and while this process takes place we asked that Genaro send us his funds from other sites ($666.12). He has not sent this. We've messaged him via WhatsApp and he has read multiple messages and chosen not to respond nor send funds.

We cannot back someone with a closed Stars account that will not send us our own money or communicate with us.

Genaro owes us $3508.79

He recently had a score and this is our part of the chop, makeup, and the starting bankroll. He should have all of these funds.