Thanks everyone for the kind words.

As for the above, I also do not know much about it aswell. However the meds given to him seemed to help a lot as I saw direct results within a few days.

From my understanding, THC in weed can trigger psychosis that previously did not manifest. Meanwhile CBD actually helps contain those same issues.
Do not trust me on this, it's from my limited knowledge of the topic.

When all this happened, I spoke to a few friends about it and heard extremely similar stories about someone they knew. Their symptoms also came out of nowhere and included severe paranoia and hallucinations. Weirdest thing is that in all 3 examples I hears of, they all said something similar at one point. It was along the lines of " the higher spirits said to do this ". They all even used the same wording which is a crazy coincidence. All were native english speakers of course.
Now do not mistake this with someone who might be religious or spiritual but mixed with all the other symptoms, i think it is a good indication that something is wrong.

Schizophrenia is a neuropsychological disorder with an average age of onset around mid-twenties for men and late-twenties for women. It has a strong genetic disposition with a myriad of environmental factors that can trigger onset. So it doesn't happen randomly, however, the cause is very difficult to pinpoint to a single gene or environmental factor.
Behaviourally, it has a heterogeneous (meaning different individuals will have different degrees of symptom severity as well as a different combination of symptoms) symptom profile that includes auditory and/or visual hallucinations and social cognitive deficits among others. Neurologically it affects both long-range and short-range neuronal connections across different brain networks and the number of genes implicated in the disorder is increasing every day. A cure is not likely so the current focus is to manage the condition itself as well as the comorbid conditions like clinical depression and anxiety that co-occur with it. Support and understanding from friends, families, and caregivers along with proper medication are found to be the best strategies for patient management.
Good news is that a lot of individuals are working towards a better understanding of the disorder and hopefully we will have improved solutions for patient care in the near future.

RIP Horveech

Dear good good friend, Horveech I miss you man.

You were always so kind, friendly and interested in others. You loved to share with people (or animals ) that had less. Not to mention that you were extremely succesful in what you loved to do; playing poker. You were a big example for many pokerplayers.

As friends we did several trips; first time USA, first time Bogota and ofcourse visiting one of your favourite cities; Barcelona.

I hope we will meet again one day. Thank you for all the experiences, your imput, laughs and good conversations that we shared. Horveech, may your soul rest in peace. <3

RIP

I've been diagnosed with schizophrenia, i don't believe i really have it. but if anyone would like to ask me any question feel free. I honestly think something like depression would be more accurate for me. I've never had hallucinations of any kind and honestly think my thoughts are pretty rational a majority of the time. I don't mean to derail the thread but maybe I could answer some questions?

How old are you. I don't really know if it's relevant, but my brother has had schizophrenia since high school. That was a long time ago, I don't remember when exactly he was officially diagnosed.
I knew there was something very wrong with him, but everyone else in the family was in denial until he became suicidal during college.

I don't agree with some people's opinions that it's triggered by some bad, emotional life event. It's a disease. Like cancer is a disease of the body, schizophrenia is a disease of the mind. You don't get schizophrenia because your parents abused you or because you go on a financial downswing or some of the nonsens I've heard.

For what it's worth. By your writing, you sound pretty normal to me.
My brothers case is not extreme, he lives at home with my aged mom, but he can't hold up a job or have friends outside the family.
He believes his body is diseased. Health test, blood exams came back all good.
He sometimes says batty things like the doctors push the buttons and everything we do is out of our control.

Do you have issues like that?
Good luck.

I'm 33. I was diagnosed a couple years ago. I'm not too sure if the diagnosis is accurate like I already said. I think If anything some type of depression would fit my issue. I have very low energy but I'm still able to function well. No motor function issues and I'm rather smart in my opinion. My problem is I have low energy pretty frequently and not much drive to accomplish anything. Sometimes I'll sleep for 24 hours and other times i'll be awake for 24 hours. I'm not sure where the doctors came up with schizophrenia. I think they just needed a diagnosis and that's what they landed on. My thoughts are based in reality and i'm very rational. Never had any type of hallucination, auditory or visual.

I originally went to the doctor/hospital because I just felt like crap. I don't know if it was mental or physical. I just felt very bad. Like despair and anxiety mixed together and I just couldn't shake it. They committed me to the psyche ward and that's where they came up with the diagnosis.

Now I had been committed several times before and I don't think they could ever say with certainty what my problem was and they would always give me some medication and send me on my way. The medication never seemed to provide any relief and I would always eventually go back to the doctor or hospital. Maybe it was a mental thing where I just never felt comfortable in my own skin or maybe it was some physical thing causing me anxiety and despair. I think that's why after a couple times being committed they finally just said I have schizophrenia and they put me on a shot. Most times I was committed it was under my own choice. I would voluntarily go to the doctor or hospital.

That's about all I can think of for now. This has been over like 10 year period so some details are fuzzy and other stuff I've forgotten completely but that's the gist of my story.

I guess to answer a couple other of your questions I can say no i don't believe my body is diseased, I'm actually very healthy. I never get sick.

Sometimes I do have crazy ideas but the thing is I can recognize their crazy. I use to think I was an alien or something. Now I didn't seriously think that I was an alien but It was just an idea I had at the time.

Sometimes I do say crazy stuff but like I said I know it's crazy and that's precisely why I say it just to get a reaction out of people lol.

Your brothers case maybe different in the fact that when he says this stuff he may actually believe it. But in my case I know what is reality and what isn't. I mostly just say the crazy stuff to my mom because she knows I'm joking. I don't go around saying crazy stuff to strangers.

You sound like you have something. More likely melancholy or depression or something. Unfortunately, you definitely have some kind of issue, but it sounds different, not as severe as my brothers.
Yes, I think he does believe the stuff he says, but he mostly keeps those type thoughts to himself. Thanks to his medication.

It sounds to me like you're right, the doctors are more speculating.
Or, maybe you just have a much milder form of schizophrenia.
There are people with schizophrenia, who are able to lead pretty normal lives. I hope that's the case for you.
I can't say much more, because I don't want to speculate either.

I can only say, don't blame yourself, whatever your issues may be.
You just got sick somehow. Continue to seek better treatment.
Seek out better doctors, if you're not happy with the current situation.
Try to stay positive. You sound like you're mostly fine.
Don't forget, we all have issues. Nobody's perfect!
I wish I could be of more help.
Again, good luck.

You can pm me anytime you like.

Hi, i have schizo affective disorder and at one time was diagnosed with scizophrenia. They are similar. Symptoms come and go and can be under control long enough to appear like i am "normal" when im writing and even hanging out in person.

RIP

played many hands with him online and met him briefly at an EPT stop.

nice guy

Hello everyone.

I have been contacted by Horveech's sister and she needs help.

His family has been trying for 2 years to contact Pokerstars and get access to his account which has a significant amount in it. It is not right for his money to just stay in Pokerstars and eventually get lost there.
The family managed to get all his other accounts without any issues.
His sister has tried many times to speak to support and contacted anyone she can to get help, however she always got some automatic robot reply.

I have also attempted to Email stars but they do not respond since it is not my account...

We are hoping that someone from PokerStars reads this or gets pointed towards this situation and contact his sister so they can finally close his account and his family can be at peace.

If anyone knows a Pokerstars employee or contact , please alert them about this situation.

Thank you.

Try messaging them on Twitter, that's where they are the most responsive.

Whilst you are right, that they are the most responsive, it is very rarely a response of any substance

I suggest trying to get the attention of one of the team pros and going from there

What country/state did he live in? Did the executor/administrator/personal representative (or whatever it is called in his jurisdiction) of his estate e-mail PokerStars support to inform them that he is deceased and attach a copy of the death certificate and the Letters Testamentary (or whatever it is called in his jurisdiction), evidencing that he/she is the authorized representative of his estate?

That's the first thing I would do. I know they don't respond to e-mails as fast as they used to, but I would have thought they'd respond to that within a somewhat reasonable amount of time.

Have u tried messaging Lex Veldhuis, Chris Moneymaker or Spraggy on social media? They are the only Pokerstars pros I can think of.

I would concur with this post except for the "e-mail pokerstars support" choice of delivery.

Have the executor or the estate attorney, if you have one, or you could engage an estate attorney soley for this purpose, Fedex an attorney cover letter with supporting documentation (death cert. etc.) to the appropriate person within the Amaya/Pokerstars organization who handles these things.

This surely isn't the first occurrence for something like this, and I've no doubt there is a person whose job, among other things, is to handle and resolve cases like this. You just need to get the name of that person, contact him/her via phone if possible, and let them know a Fedex package is coming with all the documentation to have the account funds returned to the heirs or beneficiaries.

I would literally start by calling Isle of Mann HQ until I got the specific name of the person who handles this kind of issue, or have your estate attorney do it for you. Good luck.

Didn't know him, but feel like I do after the OP, and mourn his loss. RIP.

Horveech was a good friend of mine and a great guy overall, this is not okay from stars end. I'm trying to get this publically known on medias like twitter through friends that run either big twitter accounts / represent organisations.

It's extremely sad, but that seems like how you get things done in poker 2020. Would suggest that others reach out to the joeingrams and other type of people that could make this happen. Stars support is a complete joke nowadays and getting ignored for weeks/months and now apparently a year is just what you can expect these days.

Have in mind that Horveech was born and raised in czech republic where a average salary is like $1.3k / month, its very likely that his stars balance contain a very significant ammount of money considering he was playing up to $25/50 at multiple points of time w good results.

RIP Horveech

It is so terribly sad when any loved one passes away, but when at such a young age much sadder, and I wish his family and friends the strength to cope with the loss and to remember the great and lovely times of his life.

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I did a speed-read of Stars Ts & Cs and nothing in there that I could see about a deceased player's funds.

Also found this on the link below, but very old from 2003, suggesting that funds are kept by the sites after 6 months of account inactivity. It's just chat though, not confirmation of if this is the case.

https://www.pokerfied.com/poker/When...ie_496131.html

If the above is true, it is highly unethical. Additionally, and as someone who has sadly had to do probate twice for family members; Probate, at least in the UK, can take a year, sometimes longer to complete, so 6 months is very unfair as a time period.

I agree with a previous post that it most likely is down to the appointed executor(s) of the will/estate to formally contact Pokerstars (Stars Group), because they Stars should rightly not deal with any other person(s) on this matter, as it would be bad practice in what is a legal matter where only the appointed executor(s) are legally entitled
to collect and distribute money and assets in the estate. (perhaps Czech law is different? I don't know)

May I suggest as an initial policy gathering exercise that you tweet Rob Yong (Party Poker) @rob_yong_ https://twitter.com/rob_yong_ and ask him what Party's policy and the industry's policy is on deceased account holder's funds, as he seems like a pretty straight talking guy who will give an honest and humane answer. I think he also sadly lost his dad not long ago so will be empathetic to the situation.

The info that Rob will hopefully give you, could be a good starting point of knowledge with which the executor(s) can then approach Stars with.

If you can find someone and an address or phone number. Granted I only looked for about 10 minutes, but I couldn't find one. Although also, people in different locations may get different websites when searching these things because of all the ringfencing.

And, yep, if an attorney was hired to assist with the estate, then definitely cold ask him to assist.

FYI, this has been sent internally within Stars, so hopefully they will reach out soon

@OP, if the sister/family has access to the email address on file, email in from that also imo. If not possible, as it might be harder for Stars to track down correspondence from a "random" email address, if you want to PM me the email the family is trying to contact Stars from, I can pass that on too

Have all the documents ready as outlined in a couple of previous posts

Hi,

I can confirm that this has been raised internally here at PokerStars. We are familiar with the situation and will be in contact with the relevant parties.

Thanks,
Dylan

nice. nice.