We had an issue with kristaps7777 that has been resolved.

Additionally, before we picked up kristaps7777 I spoke to Tokenstars and they confirmed that they were repaid. kristaps7777 is now playing for another backing group.

Name: Cristiano Jose Costa Pires
Pokerstars.pt: bojavatzit
Adress: Santarém, Portugal.
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/cristiano.costa.75873
Facebook (admin): https://www.facebook.com/groups/pokertourpt/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cristianocostap/
Email : cristianopires14@gmail.com
Discord: Cristiano(BojavatZIT)#1768



We have been working with Cristiano Jose Costa Pires since November 22, 2019.

We asked for an audit on January 23. 9 hours later Cristiano Pires sent in link to a fake audit file from a fake Pokerstars address mimicking the correct Pokerstars download address.

The audit file Cristiano Pires submitted was heavily edited adjusting the balance on his account. We asked him to return some of his funds and he claimed that his withdrawal was restricted until he had verified his documents. We asked for proof. We determined that the screenshots Cristiano Pires sent in were photoshopped.

Cristiano Pires spent a couple of days claiming to have messaged Pokerstars on twitter and email but was unable to forward the emails. A search of twitter didn’t turn up any public communications either.

We again requested that Cristiano Pires return funds to us and several days passed with excuses about not being able to get to the bank to make the transfer. He finally claimed to have made the transfer but after two more days we have not received the funds.

Cristiano Jose Costa Pires has been lying and falsifying documents and emails for over a week now, in a bid to by time – one can only assume because he has stolen and misused the funds. We have never seen someone go to such lengths to cover up his theft before.

We would advise no one to deal with him in any manner and to distrust anything that he sends or even tells them.

**MOD EDIT** Money has been repaid

2+2 account: Mar-a-Lago
Gmail: dijetajcash@gmail.com
PS: pushindjoke

We phoned, he turned on the video link, I checked his documents, compared with the data in the room. He played a few days, threw the results and disappeared. Does not answer on Skype and by phone number.

Claim amount: $ 100

Do you have any messages from the account 'Mar-a-Lago with screenshot evidence to prove this is the person who did this? because I know the person behind that 2+2 forum name and he hasn't been around poker for like 2-3 months and I just asked and he said it isn't him so.

Also he has another PS username so you should probably not relate the 2 people if it's not true.


Also furthermore this is the 2+2 account linked to that PokerStars name -

I made a mistake in the 2P2 nickname.
is not Mar-a-Lago (sorry man)
realy 2p2 nickname is: vividblueTO

I wrote to administrators about this error.

Makes more sense, thanks.

I am sorry but I have to revert this post.

John Walton aka. BritRiver on Stars has fallen out of contact, very soon after my post. He has updated after every session as usual, everything was great. All started when after last update he played another session and did not update (never happened before, he would Always update).
I did not think much of it. Even when he did get out of contact for a few days I thought "maybe there are personal problems" or whatever.
However, I have just noticed he has been online on 2+2 since, might be a chance he might be looking for a stake.
For me there is no way to continue the stake with these circumstances so the amount is owed. Amount owed is $216.43 (base roll + my profit cut as of last update).
This is not about the money to me, it's the betrayel that is sickening to me, since we had a good backer-horse relationship and he was a horse more responsible than I would imagine someone would be (except useless rage over bad results, which we all know makes no sense for a MTT player) . Except taking my money, it seems.

Do not stake John Walton / BritRiver on PokerStars, from Sandbach/UK. On 2+2 his name is RedBullGaveMeWings. Last Discord contact was 24th January, on 2+2 he last signed on on 3rd February.

If there is anything to update (straight payback to me is the only thing to update at this point) so that the issue is settled, I will update

Name: Nikolay Petrov
Email: jaarisimo@gmail.com
Stars SN: JaarJaar

Stole from bankroll total of $5401.50, repaid $750 and has not responded to messages since.

Name: Kaloyan Stoyanov
Email: Kaloyan.Stoyanov@gmail.com
Stars SN: Aubibek

Stopped responding to our messages and is still playing on pokerstars with our bankroll. Also was informed he scammed his last team. Total stolen is $4490.56+

Antonio has now fully repaid the $1.2k and there are no longer any issues between SamuraiStaking and this player.

Name: Denis Gheorghe
PS nickname: Mr-Denis18
Skrill/Neteller: denis.pisicaru2019@gmail.com
Gmail: d3nisg2018@gmail.com
Skype: live:d3nisg2018

I knew that he was a problem guy. I tried to contact with pokerscum to find out the details of the previous debt and agree on the repayment of the player. But they did not answer.
We began to cooperate with small limits. Then one day he wrote: Again it happened, damn poker, I lost everything. (I suspect that the casino or other disciplines) He promised to return everything. But he stopped responding.
And then by mail he began to break the comedy that the account is not his, stop writing to him, He call the police!))

Do not repeat my mistakes. There are no former, thoughtful scammers. And if it happens, then this is only an exception confirming the rule.
Claim amount: $ 225

Name: Evandro Lemes Portugal
Stars: Evandro@EL
888: EvandroEL
Party: ZAFT10
GG: Tsun10
Stars.es: KIZARU@EL

Evandro has stolen our funds. He has blocked all of his screennames on sharkscope and is not responding to communication attempts (which we have confirmation he's seen).

Evandro owes us $4974.

****UPDATE: This has been resolved, everything has been repaid.****




Twoplustwo profile: https://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/members/392603/
Pokerstars SN: futurefeyd

*EDIT* March 20th, 2020: Me and Huy have been in touch. He paid back a fraction of what he owes me, and we have agreed on a schedule to pay me back in full. If there are new updates and/or everything is paid back in full, I will post them here or later on in the thread as a new post.

Cliffs: he owes me ~1.3kUSD (which was supposed to be a GG deposit) and allegedly owes other people as well. Has not been reachable after passing his payment deadline Feb 25th.

Please note that Huy is currently requesting a stake on twoplustwo (https://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/1.../#post55760757 ) and I would highly advise not to take his staking deal. I have no doubt about his skill, it’s his money management and BRM skills I judge as being –EV and immoral.

The longer story:
I met Huy in a poker Skype group chat about a year ago where he regularly contributed. At some point he mentioned being an agent on GGPoker, offering 70% rakeback. This was a little higher of a rate than usual but not exorbitant, considering the standard rakeback on GG is 60-65%. I decided to give it a go with him as an agent.

Because for some reason depositing myself on the GGPoker platform didn’t work, we agreed that I would send him BTC and he would deposit for me. Seeing as before we had some short staking deals and he always returned the proper amount of money, I saw no problem in doing this. His winnings in the weeks leading up to that day were far surpassing any amount I would send to him (he was regularly posting winning graphs in the group chat) and generally seemed very knowledgeable and dedicated in short deck games, so I was not worried about his creditworthiness.
I sent him 0.17321552 BTC (approximately 1285$ at the time) on 30th of December 2019, of which I asked him to liquidate 500$ and put on my GGPoker account. He did.

1 day after, GGPoker locked my account without any apparent reason (which also means I did’t have direct access to my wallet anymore). Huy mentioned it was because he transferred the money directly from his player account, so he admitted it was technically his fault. GGPoker agents have direct access to account balances so he told me he would transfer the 500USD out of the account and then everything he owed, back to me. He did the former, and my GGPoker account was closed. He never sent anything back to me. In the meantime, he implied liquidating all of the BTC despite my request to only liquidate to 500USD.

After that, he started being absent from Skype more often and when I did talk to him he mentioned being in a big downswing. During these last 2 months, he suggested I buy access to some GTO ranges from him, in exchange for the amount he owed me. Also he wanted to please me with sending some charts and talking some strategy, which, admittedly, was valuable but not meant as or agreed on as any form of payment. We agreed to lock the BTC part of the money to USD only if the BTC price moved upwards and let him pay back in BTC if not (cfr. https://imgur.com/1IRlOFu), this on the 25th of February.

I realize my skype messages in the pic have edit pencils next to them. The screenshot is in Dutch as I’m from Belgium and he’s from the Netherlands, but I’m sure anyone who understands Dutch can confirm the content. More screenshots confirming the details of my story are available upon request but I don’t want to spam this post with an overflow of images when one is clearly enough as initial proof afaic.

As was to be expected, neither has he returned my money, nor has he been responsive on Skype. He snap declined a call I made and his status went from “Busy” to “Online” after that so he definitely is able to at least communicate.

Because I never lend him money explicitly and it was meant as a deposit on GG, this is not just some loan not being paid back. I’m not going to use the S-word because I am not sure it was ill-intended from the start. It’s possible, but it’s also possible he was in trouble only after I sent him the money. Either way it's immoral as of now.

The amount he owes me is relatively low. However, I have word of multiple other persons he owes money to as well, some of which I have spoken with personally. It is after talking to one of these people I decided to open up this thread, as to further protect the community. The people involved are free to chime in on this thread.

My reputation on 2+2 is non-existent, so apart from my screenshot it’s essentially my word against his, should he deny the allegations. If you browse through my post history, you can see that I participated in a bunch of staking deals long ago, in which I handled everything correctly and held up my part of the deal. If necessary, I am sure I can get a vouch from some more reputable names in the poker world, but as for now I don’t want to bother those people when we are talking relatively smaller amounts. Also, I am pretty sure the counterparty will not be able to come up with anyone who can vouch for his credibility.

May 25, 2022: This guy has gone AWOL again for 9 months (doesn't respond on skype and his discord address does not exist anymore) and he still owes me money. He has not honoured our payback agreement at all. I see him playing 10A SD and 5k SD tournies on GG Poker under the name "FortNitPro", but has his mute button on so cannot chat with him there.

June 7, 2022: Everything repaid

I had heard this dude was busto and he messaged me via a discord I'm in asking for a NLSD stake. Not sure how many others he contacted. He showed me graphs with a pretty high WR and quite a few reports from solvers. I was intrigued a bit because there isn't too much solver material out there for NLSD...I wasn't intrigued enough to stake because this dude still seemed like a huge donk. He did mention coaching. He said his rate was $250/hr and not willing to go lower unless I bought 10 hours+ despite him having zero references and needing the money. I told him he needed to either grind micros or charge less but he is too arrogant to do either thing.

He continued to pester me showing off graphs like is supposed to impress me or something and I'd change my mind and stake him. Eventually I told him he will never be a winning player unless he humbles himself a bit and I'm not interested in his action or coaching and blocked him. I think he has many more victims. Sorry to hear this happened to you.

In my (limited) interactions with him he reminded me of every other scammer I've ever met in my life.

Pokerstars user name: firefaux

Partypoker user name: Super Slimey

P5s/2+2:firefaux

Real name:rohid mohammad omari

Country: Canada/Toronto/Ontario

Email address:firefaux160@hotmail.com / rohidomari160@msn.com

Many problems to say the least with this guy, main problem now is ignoring all my messages whilst under stake with funds in his account. Refusing to reply and send funds back.

Given him plenty of time and chances, he has seen my messages but still no reply. 99% of the time in cases like this the money has been stolen.

Will be posting on P5s and scamming sites etc as well.

Name: Thiago Martins
Pokerstars: Badknife
Party : Badmartin77 / Nazonadoagriao
888: badknife
Pokerstars-es-pt-fr: 3adknife
PokerOK: 3adknife
GG Poker: Badknife
Adress: Sapucaia do Sul Rio Grande do Sul Brasil
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/badknifepoker/ (@badknifepoker)
Email : thmartins0708@gmail.com
Discord: badknife#3242




We have been working with Thiago Martins since April 2018. He was unhappy that his limits were reduced in November 2019. On March 2, 2020 he announced that he’d be returning all funds and playing for himself.

Thiago Martins is quitting to continue playing poker while in makeup and breaking his contract.

Thiago Martins owes us $10k in makeup.

Name: Joseph Nieves
Country: Perú
Stars: nievessk
Skype: live:jonievesgs21

Do not stake or trade with this person.
He was stealing funds from day one but at the end his constructed scam got out of control when he was asked for cashier prints to make a cash out.
He never communicated again and left with BR at the cashier.
He is currently playing in pppoker and live tournaments.
Big liar and thief.

Amount owed: about 1k in profits + makeup.

Jareth Has paid me back in full.

Evgeny Gurov

Pokerstars ID: MagnatG

Skype: magnatg

email: magnatgurov@gmail.com

Typical bankroll theft, after typical fake reports for a couple weeks. Posting this after the criminal industry standard lack of replies to our contact attempts.

Once those messages are ignored and it is changed to the "we will need to post the info" email, we then get a typical quicker reply. This reply included the usual mundane excuses about why the money had to be stolen to pay for every item, device, and human ever owned or met having broken down. Add a sprinkle on top with the "I only took money I planned to pay back" line, and we have another typical small time criminal doing a routine small time crime, with generic excuses, after avoiding dealing with it in a proper and professional manner.

One frustration with these interactions, is that it is hard to properly determine what percentage being told is based on truth, as some lie about everything, but others have some aspects of truth, and had they spoken to us when it was becoming a problem, we would have worked out a way to make it work with their situation as best as possible. However, given that nearly everyone who steals uses the same behavior pattern, all we can eventually do is post it to warn other potential backers. Thus, as played, he should not be backed by anyone moving forward, unless they too want to go through this process as well with him. If anything is paid back, we will update accordingly.

+1 - this idiot scammed me out of 7.5k, for anybody on here he also owes please feel free to PM me and will provide both his parents address and new apartment in Pattaya where I will be collecting funds from.

He comes on 2+2 but doesn’t bother responding to his debtors and just blanks them. Pure scumbag, please totally avoid. His account should be removed so he can not scam anybody else.

Name: Alex Brosch
Country: Slovakia
email: alexbrosch98@gmail.com
Winamax: aLeeeqx
Owes: 666$

He lost 666$ and left without message, no answer to anything yet.

Name: Diego Mendonça Mendes
Stars: DIegoin777
888: Diegoin777
Party: Diegoin777
iPoker: DIEGOIN777
Stars.es: KingRules77
Winamax: KingRules77

While going through audits we noticed that Diego was incorrectly updating his account balances with us. What he would report he held as cash in accounts did not match any audits. This was impossible to be a mistake. We had previous issues with playing games that were not permitted.

We chose to part ways with Diego, asking only for a repayment plan for the non-permitted games played and the amount his financials were misreported (~$1k total). Diego agreed. He missed the first payment that was due this month, has not replied to multiple communication attempts, and played as recently online as 3 days ago.

Pokerstars: RegimAG
Party : ItachiDoPoker

We have been working with RegimAG since March 2019. RegimAG quit while in makeup.

RegimAG owes us $1.6k

Name: Pablo Felipe Marín Santoyo
Country: Columbia
email: marin_1945@hotmail.com
Winamax: Smart4play
Owes: around 2k$

He lost this amount over a period and left without message, no answer to anything yet.