Hi my name is Kyle, im a part-time staker. I recently staked a player who goes by Jimmyjams on 2+2 and jimmyjam4bet on pokerstars he says his name is Edward Rowney. He came to me looking for a PLO stake, he showed me some solid stats and we talked a few days about what options we could do to possibly stake him. He agreed to start low and try to work his way up.

We started him out with a 200$ stake, I made him sign a contract and also made him send me a copy for his drivers license. Well he said he didnt have a drivers license with him so he gave me a copy of his passport.

The very next day on skype he contacted me and told me he lost all of the stake.... Which violates the contract rules he was suppose to contact me after losing a certain amount. Which he never did. So when I asked him about make up he says he doesn't want to play anymore and that he is not paying me a dime.

That's when things get weird, he then tells me in my chat stable that he won a SCOOP event for 25k$ so when I asked him to pay my 200$ back he says no and that his passport was fake. Then I told him I had his IP address and he then says that is fake also since he is on a proxy network.

Now I know 200$ isn't a lot of money and frankly I don't care about it the point of the story is hes a scammer and a dirtbag. And I hope nobody in the world stakes him another dime. I have pictures of the chats that went on,as well as a copy of his (fake) passport that he sent me. I'm not 100% sure if i'm allowed to post them here or how to post them so if anyone can help me with that I would appreciate it.

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jimmyjams on 2+2, now banned (April 2013 registration)
Skype - jimmyjams1993 (United Kingdom), jimmyjams
Pokerstars - jimmyjam4bet (new account April 2013)

He is confirmed trying to use this scam with every stable he finds.

Did the same exact thing to me in March. Started out saying he wanted to invest in our stable which I guess was just to get my attention because that never came up again, then tried the Party swap scam for $4.5k and said he would give whoever swapped for him $300 (lol), tried to say he needed it asap to put a horse in the Super Tuesday that day, later in the day asks if I'm staking for SNE and he asks for 3/6 cap staking and will cover his own losses (lmao), refuses to submit an app and wants to do everything on Skype before I get oi him and stop replying, later tries selling me that no-markup package and I don't respond, then today comes back begging for micro 180 staking saying that he will do a trial period and pay back any money he loses during the trial while still refusing to submit an app/making excuses for it not working (rofl).

Back when he first did it his refusal to submit an app tilted me enough that I just forgot about him and didn't bother looking him up, even though it seemed like an obvious scam anyway, but today after he tried yet again I decided to just google his Skype name and found these gems of posts lol.

What an idiot how can someone be such a bad scammer

Finally got him to submit an app and this is what he sent in case there is some useful info for searches and etc:

-Real name, age, location

Joshua Kingston Mcintosh , 22yo , Gold coast australia

-ALL 2+2 and Pocketfives account names (past and present)

http://www.pocketfives.com/profiles/onzeegrind/

-Email/AIM/Skype names

onzeegrind@gmail.com , (skype) Proslayer23

-ALL sites played on and screen names

Stars. Onzeegrind
Fulltilt. i5betu4fun

-Playing history (specify total number of games/hands played online)

games 2086
hands played (cash) 5871 Mtt (unsure)

-Coaching history and experiences

OnTheMac (jesse mackenzie)

-Any references you may have in the poker community

Brett daffne
Jesse Mackenzie (sunday million winner)
Luke Burnham
Tim Oshea (long time staker and good friend) (Aussie millions ring winner)

-Previous backers and staking experiences

Jesse mackenzie (online)
Tim oshea (live)

-Existing rakeback/vip levels

Silver at the moment highest was platinum

-Links to Sharkscope/OPR/etc (links to/screen shots of graphs and stats are suggested)

http://www.sharkscope.com/#Player-St...ers/OnZeeGrind

-Reason for seeking stake and how long do you want to be staked for

I want to grind full time and i have been backed before i feel i play much better
with out the worry of money and can just really get into the zone and play my
natural game..

-Your goals for this stake

That we are both happy and both make a good friendship
understand each other and make good choice and money

-Games/limits you would like to be staked for

Anything and Everything

-Average tables played simultaneously/expected monthly games/hands volume

comfortable 6-9 tabling
6-16 hours a day minimum

-Software you already own/use while playing

PT4

-Any other relevant/useful information you would like to share (please keep this reasonably concise)

im not here to be disrespectful or rude and i will smile and take any choice you make from this app seriously i understand were i stand as i am a live reg going into the virtual felts its a whole different game online and it took some serious coaching to realize this thank you for even taking the time to read this i just want you to make the right choice based on your business Thanks

Good post JD

This scammers P5s account has a warning on all of his posts

March 31 Neg FB summary post

this guy rang a bell when i saw his name . He was posting in a lot of the PGC threads looking to add people on skype "for study group" and was also looking for micro horses there . this is an example but there were quite a few more.
http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/sh...5&postcount=15

Jimmyjams added me on skype, for a while he messaged me every day asking about staking stuff and then told me I was horrible at staking.

You run so bad

Name: Reid Harris III
2+2: GameGenie
2+2 profile link: http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/members/123239/
email: reidharris3@gmail.com
skype: reidharris3
phone: 912-399-2544
Current Location: Costa Rica
Former Location: St. Simons Island, Georgia, USA
AIM: IbeReid
Facebook: Reid W. Harris III (https://www.facebook.com/ReidHarrisTheThird?fref=ts)
Pocketfives link: http://www.pocketfives.com/profiles/gamegenie/

PokerStars: P U N I O
FTP: 1nvu1nerab1e
UB: STR8PUN1SH1N
Merge: ICThroughU222, ISeeThroughU222, suck1tup
Revolution: P U N I O, PUNISHING
WPN: suck1tup
Party: Myfootupyoura$$


First and foremost, I urge anybody considering staking Reid to contact me privately to discuss before making a decision. You will avoid a ton of headache to say the least.

Cliffs
Overall stake goes well, although horse is very difficult to deal with due to his attitude. Closing of the stake goes terribly as horse expects backer to eat all known and unknown fees. Horse eventually settles on splitting unknown fee of ~$220. Later, horse inquires on unknown fee and receives refund on Merge. Horse refuses to return other half of fee to backer unless he is paid back first.


The Longer Version
I started staking Reid in low/mid MTTs around February of 2012 and the stake continued through April of 2013. Because he was located in the US, I staked him on Merge, Revolution, WPN, and Bovada.

Reid's stake had several ups and downs. I would classify him as someone incredibly difficult to work with. I do not want to go into detail in this post but I would urge future backers to contact me privately to elaborate on some of these issues. While at times he was immensely difficult to work with, this is not the reason why I am posting in the neg feedback thread.

In April 2013, Reid decided to move from the US to Costa Rica. We had discussed his move a few months prior to his relocation, as he was extremely excited to relocate and begin playing on Stars/FTP/euros. While discussing his relocation, I was under the impression I would continue staking him. This is where our arrangement turned sour.

Promptly arriving at Costa Rica, he informed me he was going to play on his own, stating that his action on PokerStars [specifically] was too valuable to give up. Our staking arrangement allowed him the option of quitting the staking whenever he was out of makeup. He fortunately cleared the majority of his makeup right before leaving the US, but had a small amount remaining. At this point, I figured it was not a big deal, since I assumed he would immediately square away the makeup with me, send me my funds, and be on his way.

Instead, he never brought up buying out his makeup and assumed I would just eat the amount because I had made money off of staking him. On several occasions I brought to his attention the need to square away his makeup. I suggested we settle the figure after he withdrew my funds on sites that do not allow player to player transfer (Merge and Bovada). At the time he neither agreed to this or rejected it, and I decided to wait until my funds were withdrawn from his poker accounts until pursuing the issue further.

Reid made 2 Merge withdraws (~$4,900 and ~$4,300) and one Bovada withdraw. Of the ~$9,200 to be withdrawn from Merge, approximately $1,700 was his money from a recent chop. I allowed him to receive his full $1,700 in funds when he received his first Merge withdraw, sending me the remainder of funds. Typical withdraws from Merge take ~2 months to complete.

The second Merge withdraw arrived maybe 2 weeks ago. What was odd about this second withdraw was that ~$240 was deducted in fees. Looking into the fees, we immediately noticed that $20 was taken from a Merge fee, while the other ~$220 in fees remained unknown.

I asked Reid to figure out where this fee came from. His response to me was along the lines of "I don't feel like finding out because wires are shady in the US, and you should just eat the fee". I told him that it was his responsibility to determine where the fee came from, otherwise he would be responsible for the fee, or at least we would have to considering splitting the financial burden. He boldly implied in his responses that I should just eat this fee.

I asked several backers and horses privately as to their thoughts on this matter. The overwhelming majority response was that 1) fees in general should be default split between horse and backer unless an alternative arrangement was agreed upon and 2) horse should be responsible for any unknown fees if he chooses not to inquire on the fee.

After careful consideration of the input I received on this issue, I told Reid that I was willing to split both the $20 known Merge fee as well as the ~$220 unknown fees. I also told him I expected to be paid in full for the makeup he was in when he quit the stake. With the childish manner he had displayed throughout several occasions under the stake, he complained about unfair I was being, going as far as blocking and re-adding me on Skype twice while we were discussing the issue, as well as claiming I had "scammed" him for not offering him a better stake (apparently he expected 60/40 his favor when we had always agreed upon a 50/50 makeup split). Throughout this annoying conversation, I suggested arbitration multiple times, to all of which were ignored by him. Eventually he reluctantly paid me half the fees plus makeup that was owed.

A few days later, he tells me that he inquired on the fee and received a reimbursement of the fee on Merge. I asked him to send me the other half of the fee when he receives his withdraw. He response was along the lines of "If you don't return my funds that I just sent, I'm not sending you any of this money when I withdraw it" stating his logic being him having to front half the costs up front, costs that were agreed upon when he refused to inquire on the fee. He proudly told me that he only paid me half of the [at the time unknown] fee to get me to "stfu" and not because it was fair. I can only assume he didn't want this very post to be publicized. Now he's upset that he paid half of the fee upfront and will have to wait ~2 months to recover the funds. Because I have refused to send him back funds now, he has decided to keep the full refund of the fee and cut communication with me, essentially freerolling me out of ~$110.

The sum [luckily] is rather trivial and I do not expect to receive it from Reid. This long winded post, I hope, serves to warn any potential backers as to his antics when closing out a stake; quitting in MU, not caring how the MU amount is resolve, and assuming backer eats all fees associated to money movements (although it was his preference and request to play on Merge after Merge discontinued player to player transfers).

I don't suspect Reid to publicly search for backing but I am aware that he is already privately looking for backing through networking. I can only hope backers do their due diligence and look in this thread before they consider investing in him. I am more than willing to discuss privately with future backers considering this risk of a stake.

And to Reid: I am ready and willing to accept arbitration when you're ready. You have multiple ways to contact me if and when you decide to.

Nah I just stake bad

Name: Dr. Michael Silverstein / Dr. Mike Silverstein .
E-mails: justchirop@gmail.com & justchiro@hotmail.com .
Lock username: 2kids4sale / justchiro@hotmail.com .
HSDB forum username: BustACAP .
Phone: 646-701-2401 .
Location: NYC.
Misc.: A 54 year old chiropractor that frequents highstake live underground PLO games in the city and is a semi-regular at Foxwoods where he plays a lot of side games.


We agreed on a trade where I send him $5k on a pokersite and he sends me a bank wire. Once I sent him my part he never sent the wire and cut all ties with me. Been trying to contact him for weeks to no avail.

Freshteeth on pokerstars

name:Kadim Hudson

Backed him for small stakes, went into mu, disappeared. hes been playing some but blocked all sites now from tracking.

Need to hear back from him, for now do not stake



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2+2 - OP.
Dec/2012 account with 0 posts since April1 but logged in 16 hours ago
Posted from Austrailia

Stars - FreshTeeth
FTP - kaadim
P5s - closed - http://www.pocketfives.com/profiles/kaadim/



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Username here, bitcointalk, sealswithclubs, lock: IBeforeWe
Email here and on lock: ibeforewe@gmail.com

He owes .26 BTC to 4 people who staked him.
HE owes .34 BTC to me from a loan.
He owes .3 BTC to SmoothOne to me from a loan.

All of this was supposed to be paid back 10 days ago. Hes not reacting to Pms here nor on bitcointalk(he wasnt on btctalk to see them tho yet)

1 BTC ~ 122 USD


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2+2 - IBeforeWe

I have given him a precautionary tempban.
His gmail is posted above.
If he pays I will unban him.

Inform me of any updates.
RW

^ Since John only has 1 post here i can confirm he is a legit staker/backer on seals.
Also that I beforewe owes $$ for stakes and loans. Some of them can be seen here http://www.sealsdeals.info/old/

Also, in the past i have had quite a few trades with ibeforewe here on 2+2.( buying and selling lock) Every trade was smooth and i think i sent first every time. And he seems to be a good guy. I also sent him a pm a few days ago when i first heard of this but have not heard back yet.

He was attempting to buy seals chips recently. So hopefully he was intending to pay you back with them. http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/sh...stcount=139694

Anyway hope this gets worked out for both of you.

Not even sure if he has a 2+2 account, but...


Name: Sarkany Szabolcs
Email: sarkanyszabolcs91@gmail.com
Phone Number:0747217424

Screen names-

Merge: OwnTheFish91
Cake: OwnTheFish
Pokerstars: OwnTheFish

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I staked Sarkany to play 10NL and 20NL cash games. He violated the stop loss and eventually busted the bankroll. He fell out of contact and removed me from skype.

Do not stake this player.

Full Name
Alexander Arnold
Your email
xander@akashic.co.uk
Skype ID
alexander.david.lawson.arnold
Country
England
PokerStars nickname
Xandurrrr
FullTiltPoker username
X-MAN-UK
iPoker username
XandurrrrBaby

Alexander Arnold refused to return his stake (€400) and try to blackmail us into staking him again

You either stake me again and I win you lots of money, or I take £191 out of the 400 euros and will give you the rest..

We dont think he is a scammer but he is definitely not someone we would recommend to ANY staker

Name: Rajesh Rughwani or Raj Rughwani
2+2: Power_up45
Stars: Power_up45
Location: London

Stake started on Feb 13. Initially all went smoothly; player was up significantly and made all transfers on time and in full. He recently hit a downswing and was in a bit over $10k of makeup. At this point, I came across a few red flags:

1. He had begun purchasing quite a bit of action from online packages for Stars, including ones where the only available payment option was Stars transfers, yet his weekly transfer history screenshots were not showing transfers like this.

2. He had two transactions appear in his May 20 Stars cashier history screenshot for that day, which disappeared in his May 27 screenshot (which was set to 14 days and included transactions on and before May 20).

3. Sharkscope was reflecting a loss significantly lower than his makeup figure.

I informed him of the situation and asked him to let me Teamviewer in to see his 60 day cashier history. He agreed, then said he was unable to download Teamviewer; then that he was unable to receive Skype calls to share his screen that way; and then when I asked him to use Screenleap, he provided an invalid link; with increasingly long delays each time before he replied.

I told him that I needed him to either share his screen via any method, or let me log into his account to check for myself. He refused, becoming quite upset. He told me that he would request a Stars audit proving he was right. I told him that regardless of what an audit said, if he had modified the screenshots, I would consider that to be a scam.

He again refused to show the transfer history, and said he would transfer back what was in his account, which he had said was $1122 earlier in the conversation. While I would be out the makeup, I wanted to recover anything I could at this point, and asked him to send. He claimed he would make the transfer, then when I pressed, told me that he didn't actually owe the full amount in his account:

[1:10:41 PM] Power_up45 (Raj): Collin its done you've made your bed, there's no going back now unfortunately i will send you the 1122 now

[1:21:01 PM] Power_up45 (Raj): yes just working out figures now total sum
[1:21:20 PM] Collin Moshman: no need to work out figures, just transfer your entire account balance now pls
[1:21:52 PM] Power_up45 (Raj): my entire balance is not yours unfortunately

He has still transferred nothing after several hours, so I thought it was important to post this now as he's very active in the marketplace; if he does transfer anything I will update.

1) Creg/CregA

2) Creg_allenki

3) English

4) Backed him full time, litany of embezzlement and playing unauthorised games, buying action with my money etc. Now seeking a job/quitting poker so shouldn't be a problem but under no circumstances stake this player, owes me a 5 figure sum.


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Stakeroller banned

2+2 - CregA

PokerStars - creg_allenki
Party Poker - creg_allenki
PokerStars.FR - allenki
Full Tilt Poker - creg_allenki
888 Poker - creg_Allenki
http://www.pocketfives.com/profiles/creg_allenki/
https://twitter.com/Creg_Allenki

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2p2 Nick: protential.89 (https://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/members/365350/)


May, 2013 staking request

pokerstars - THESAW_89
fulltilt - manutdmatt
sky poker - super_nova
microgaming - HaPpYpSyChO
microgaming - jelly_fish

I staked $400, he gave me an update after day 1 that he was down 56euro, and I haven't heard from him since, but have been told his account is at $0.

right after this post by Rainbow Warrior , freshteeth contacted admin and says he has intent to pay. I will update any progress, do not stake for now

Thanks RW

plus
We almost always agree to edit out any personal info once all known problems are resolved.

Name: Ørjan Froven
Email: orjanfroven@gmail.com
2p2 Nick: keviii
Skype: orjan.ffs
Address: Erling Skakkes gate 2B, 7013 Trondheim, Norway


May, 2013 staking request

pokerstars - mysnistoolon
fulltilt - IAMASCANDI
ongame- tooletime13
microgaming- callmemaybe

I came to agreement to stake Orjan towards the end of May. He was a midstakes player on ongame, staked by www.prettyneatstaking.com who gave me a positive review of orjan. We agreed for a 200nl stake on pokerstars, and to move him up to 400nl quickly if results were good. I sent him $600 on skrill (orjanfroven@gmail.com) so he could make use of the first deposit bonus. I was having issues sending money on stars at the time (over my own limits), so i sent $2400 on fulltilt for him to transfer over. During this time he was in good contact with me. He told me ftp wasnt letting him send the money to stars, so i went ahead and sent $2400 more on stars expecting him to send back the ftp money ASAP. Total amount scammed: $5400


Since then I have one skype message from Orjan on June 5th, and all my unanswered messages:

[6/5/2013 11:14:21 AM] Ørjan: hey, haven't seen you online for a while. been busy with my masters thesis @ uni. very few hands at 50 and 100 but up a bit.. waiting for it all to end, hopfully will manage to play 40k hands this month
k no worries
[6/5/2013 3:40:58 PM] gadolparah: any luck getting your ftp account verified to send back that money?
[6/7/2013 5:00:35 AM] gadolparah: would really like to get an update form you...
[6/11/2013 6:48:47 PM] gadolparah: PMed you on 2p2 and emailed you
[6/16/2013 5:36:30 PM] gadolparah: hopeing this is just a misunderstanding orjan... gonna give it a few more days before taking some more proactive steps

All skype messages are still showing as unsent as well, so either he has blocked me on skype, or has not logged in since the June 3rd. Interestingly, i've also messaged "prettyneatstaking" on skype as well since then, and all messages are showing in the same manner.

A popular stars datamining site shows account activity for "mysnistoolon" with all play at 50nl 6m:



Orjans ID he sent me as part of our staking contract:



Have contacted stars, ftp, and skrill at this point.


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I want to add that it seems very likely that prettyneatstaking.com was involved in the scam, as they have a skype username (prettyneatstaking) that hasnt been online since the day after giving me a positive reference. This was back in may, and would be very strange for a staking group.

Just got some spam message about staking..I don't know if this is the right place to post, but here goes.



2p2 name = stuhosks

registered June 2013, has only 13 posts...


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stuhosks - banned - multiple spam PMs
hoskins1111 - prev. banned 2+2 account(spam)
ptp dns - http://forum.parttimepoker.com/members/hoskins1111.html
PStars - stuart hosks
skype - stuart.hoskins1

Do not stake affinity_00 (his screen name on here, and on Stars.

His skype user name is "knightfan", real name Jimmy (will keep the last name to my self for now), from Brisbane, Australia.

I staked him with $250 for 180mans, and after he recieved the money on the 5th of April, he didn't contact me before the 17th of April, where he told me he was experiencing PC problems. On the 23rd, he told me that his PC still wasn't fixed, but that he played some, and he was in profit. On the 16th of May, he told me that his PC was back up and running, but i haven't heard from him since - he isn't answering my PMs, and i bellieve he has blocked me on skype.

Stakee warning:

* We will be posting Photo id and other documents of Luke Kelly as well if he does not respond with appropriate action

Luke Kelly
2+2 name : forfoxxsake
skype: coolhandluke
email: luke.kelly87@yahoo.co.uk
address:
21 George Street
Cleckheaton , BD19 3Na
UK
screen names:
coo1hand1uk3 (PKR), forfoxxsake (Stars), coolhandluke216 (FTP)


We are posting on a player that has violated his contract .. he is in make up .. and now is stealing ... when we asked him to send the remaining stake funds back the other day he did not respond and left our team skype group .. later when I connected with him on skype he said he never received the email ( which we do not believe) .. and would return funds that day June 16/13 Sunday ( see skype convo below) .. he has not sent funds back and we see he is playing on FTP so its possible he has transferred our money over there and is playing with our funds .. nonetheless he is withholding our money and once again cant seem to honour his agreements

Its unfortunate as Luke seemed like a nice enough guy, but obv cant keep his word so the community needs to know about that.

Skype convo by Luke June16/13:[16/06/2013 8:39:36 AM] coolhandluke: I've never once lied to you Colin, not once. I appreciate how you're seeing all this but I'm not a liar, nor a thief. I messed up and what was a great opportunity but my intentions were only ever good ones.

[16/06/2013 8:54:23 AM] coolhandluke: I will send you the remainder of the stake funds today, no problem. I hope you'll then email me with details of resolving the outstanding makeup.
whatever you think of me Colin, i'm not a dishonest guy. I aren't a liar and I certainly aren't a thief. Gutted it's turned out like this but c'est la vie and all that

We had issues in the past with Luke and admittedly gave him far too much leeway when we should have posted on him a long time ago ...

We had given Luke another chance agreeing that he would stick to certain buy ins and game types and any violation as per the contract would hold him responsible for what was owing .. his reply:


I agree

Thank you Colin - and partners

I won't let you down, that's a promise

Luke

... when we checked records we see that it lasted about three days before a slip up .. and then it progressed from there .. we have documented all the play out of contract guidelines and sent it to him and he seems to want to debate that , apparently unaware that OPR tracks and record all play .. he played out of guidelines and deposited his own money to try and cover it up .. his version is different .. he can feel free to chime n here .. the bottom line is he is repeating patterns and is now not sending back our money as agreed upon

The amount out on his stake is currently $1600 ( we have already given a $300 write off down from what would have been $1900 ) .. when he sent the last update on June 13/13 it showed a balance of $302.66 .. and we has asked previous to that he suspend all play on the stake and transfer funds back.

Interestingly he made a post in negative feedback on someone else a while back:


I was talking to bizfish on Skype the other day and he mentioned this dude was currently playing at cash tables, despite emailing to state that he had lost the stake playing SNG's.

posted by forfoxxsake/luke Kelly: SS didn't have him as playing any SNG's during the times he claimed, so had clearly decided to rob bizfish of his roll and play cash instead. bizfish followed him, sat to his left at a table and proceeded to ask for his money back, with this Greek imbercile merely stating he didn't like his backer anymore - asked why he was moaning over a few $... That angered me and it ain't my cash.

.. how quickly we forget about what angers us about others and then we do the same thing ourselves hey Luke?

We will also be contacting the folks at PKR as he apparently has a decent relationship with them and I think it prudent they know who they are dealing with .. he has also made contacts with several members of our Team and they will be warned as well in case he goes looking for additional funds.

C.

Name: Anssi Lytta
Screen names:
2+2- anssijuhani- https://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/members/147309/
poker: dr runner (revolution)
facebook: https://www.facebook.com/anssi.lytta

skype: anssijuhani11
email: pelataapokeria1@hotmail.com
phone number: +358449240466
amount owed: $930


Anssi was staked by me for a few months and played 50NL cash games. Recently, he has been out of contact and absent on both skype and email.

When I went to go lock his account, my contacts at the site told me that his account was locked for collusion. I emailed Anssi and he has not replied, which has led me to this post.

Anssi Lytta is a scammer and a thief.