I would also like to know more about him getting caught using RTA. If any have links to old thread please share.

I agree.

I suggested some safe guards like adding delays etc. but they value customer experience over game integrity which is fair enough as a business.

The responsibility is on the user but when you personally run a poker site it is a bit ironic offering software that any 18-year old poker phenom could use to cheat on it.

Yea I mean rahm is 100% legit, so I am certain that the allegations are true, time for media to stop painting this guy like some idol/phenom.

Why is it soooooo hard for people to admit that online poker is a mess when this story is just another one in a long list proving the point?

guys we can pack it up, he says cash games are solved

Hello, I'm making an account to stop on by and put my word in as I have firsthand experience with squids' staking and comments made by some of the repliers.
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Squid started "staking" me when I was 20. This deal lasted for 2 years where I started at 50plo on global poker and he moved us up sometimes as quick as "when you win 1000bb" In the 2 years of "staking", there were 2 coaching sessions. One of which was learning a specific board in 3bp where we range bet. The other was how to use MonkerSolver and PLO Visions. (In real-time)
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He then got all of us to play on PokerBros where we were aggressively pushed to play using monker and visions in real time with a hud on an emulator to access to app. Any time we had questions on hands, they were mostly met with "check visions" or "run a sim", indicating he either was too lazy to teach, incapable of teaching, or some combination of the two. This is a horrible combination for anyone trying to run a legitimate stable.
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Much like what Rahm93 said above, upon looking back it appeared to be him taking advantage of bad players in bad financial situations, hoping that encouraging them to cheat in app games would make him enough money from agenting on these apps. (He was getting a nice cut of our rake)
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I can second what UpDog and RektByPandas have stated as well. His username on global was JohnSquid originally and then somehow was also playing under aSquid before receiving bans. The "group" of players on global poker that he was involved in were the following:

Him (aSquid)
Me (ItsSpork)
PrincessAriel (aka "22")
dizzyhippo

(And I may have missed a few that I forgot about)

At this time, Global Poker froze all of our accounts as his credit card was linked to all of them so he could maximize credit card rewards. Squid has openly said in dm's that his idea of morals is doing anything for his bottom line. Global Poker requested all of us to compose an email explaining what tools/software we've used and what we know about other players. I received a group discord call where the entire group was planning on how they're going to write their email to try to stretch the truth and minimize damage. This is where I realized I was in a group of truly unethical players and mostly cut ties from this point. My email was summarized to the following points:
(I no longer have the email but would be able to potentially retrieve it from global should enough people care to see the actual email)
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I openly admitted I was using preflop RTA at the time, but did not use postflop RTA. My opinion at the time was "A lot of people use preflop, so it's fine" (Which is obviously ridiculous) I demonstrated in a video to global poker what preflop and postflop rta looked like. I then admitted I was being staked (against global tos) and also admitted to using an autoclicker to get seats on really good games. (Held the autoclicker over ppl sitting out) I then explained that the other players on the list are all 100% using postflop rta as I've firsthand seen them doing it and also was in the voice chat when they were trying to save face in their email. Global permanently banned these users and gave me a 30-day ban with a warning that any further issues would lead to a permanent ban. They did this in the good faith that I've changed my viewpoint, which I have.
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I will probably be recognized as the complete chat degen that I've been in the past on global. Many of the regs (rightfully) will believe I am quite the clown because of it. Please just move past that for a minute and listen to my firsthand comments. I'm putting a lot of effort into reducing my ego and increasing my actual skill.
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And lastly, I've long since recovered from the 2 years I've wasted directly dealing with squid. I moved on and started playing on my own from 20plo, to now playing 200plo through 1kplo on global and other US-friendly locations.
I'm not backed by anyone and am quite healthily rolled/living expenses so I'm much happier. I'm receiving coaching that's actual high quality from someone who is much better and more importantly, not morally corrupt. There was no formal contract for the staking deal, but he was paying living expenses as needed should I not have been doing well. (I didn't do well. I was not nearly good enough to be playing mid/high stakes, but was pushed to for pokerbros rake for him as well as pushed to cheat with rta) I have a $14k tab with squid that was expected to be paid in the future for those expenses. I've made the executive decision to not pay that given the time I've lost, the amount of money he's made cheating, and the conditions we were put into under his "stake". I say this for transparency and people are welcome to weigh in on that last point. The player I'm being coached by who's a very good, reputable player also believes I should not pay this person.

Feel free to ask any questions, but I would prefer if they were dm'ed to me at Spork#1337 on discord. I can share pieces of the dm history I've had with him which probably has plenty of instances of him telling me to "just use visions" I don't use poker social media/forums but had to for this purpose.

Good luck out there everyone.

Bang bang

This aged great

"Fell out of love with the game"

Translation: Got banned on Global Poker, a very soft all-american site and couldn't beat high stakes ACR vs players who were actually better than him even with this visions crutch.

UPDATE: I have dug through my dm history with squid from 2018/2019 and while I feel a bit queasy looking back at those times and reading this **** I've compiled about 30 screenshots for you guys for further "evidence" on this topic then will not be spending time on poker forums/dealing with this as I want it to be behind me.

Here's the dump of screenshots I posted: https://imgur.com/a/kXjsrse

Enjoy, and make of these how you will.

confirmed solved

what a scumbag

Wow, what a piece of garbage.

This thread needs to be shared with the community so we can out this trash human who thinks it’s ok to cheat/steal people’s money because being born in the US is an unfair advantage over being born in North Korea. That’s some next level rationalization.

Spork, I hope you realize you're a cheating scumbag and possibly a bigger rat than the guy running the stable? It's borderline sociopathic that (1) rather than owning up to your actions and apologizing, you persistently paint yourself as a victim even though you knowingly cheated at poker for TWO YEARS (2) you were a "chat degen" and a "clown" to the people you cheated (3) you (lol) suddenly "discovered ethics" only AFTER you got busted, then proceeded to narc out your entire stable to save your own skin.

Lmao at looking for sympathy/acting like a victim/positioning yourself on the moral high ground. You got off lightly relative to what you deserved.

The excuses / justifications in those pics is unbelievable. Actually mind blowing how hard scumbag cheaters try to make their actions seem okay - reminds me of Fedor Kruse sucks these cheaters get to keep their money they stole from people

He doesn’t seem to be looking for sympathy at all? And lol at calling him a ‘bigger rat’ than squid. He’s a cheater, and he’s said as much. Perhaps he has an axe to grind with Squid, which is what motivated him to post, but so what?

Just stop with this ‘narc out’ stigmatization. **** cheaters. They’re stealing money from real people. They don’t deserve any loyalty or protection.

Spork, thanks for sharing these posts, whatever your motivation was. If you have anything else to share please do it.

Replying to this and the post you replied to:

1) My motivation was simply to post what evidence I did have as many were asking for it and weren't confident the allegations were true.

2) I openly admitted to what I've done in the past and will reiterate it again.

- Used postflop RTA on PokerBros, Used HUD on PokerBros
- Used preflop-only RTA on Global Poker around the time the entire "group" was banned.
- Used autoclicker to get seats on Global.

Approx mid-late 2019 is when I refused to use postflop and soon after preflop. What I did was very wrong and am not denying that. I realized the person I was looking up to because he had a lot of money got there with very unethical practices and had to escape it and learn the game correctly.

Interestingly enough, I've lost money while under his stable because I couldn't bring myself to grind constantly with RTA, it was mind numbing. (In the words of my newer coach:

"Sounds about as exciting as sharpening pencils for a living"

I ended in like $20k of MU an owing him $14k for a tab. I am NOT justifying my actions with this statement.

Since leaving him, playing on my own and now being under a CFP deal and ACTUALLY learning the game, I've won about $70k since 1/30 by actually learning the game and I couldn't be happier.

Yeah I mean anyone who knows spork knows he's not a great guy and him cheating is no surprise but at least he outed the guy who was

Squid is a disgusting individual. Literally stealing thousands of $$$ and still attempts to justify it.

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachmen...08/unknown.png

My favorite.

sorry for reporting you on global, btw. hopefully it's not a perm mute.

you might not be as bad as squid, but you're still a huge twat in chat

TheSpork deserves forgiveness. We all make mistakes and sometimes desperate people will do desperate things or even just being young and making a bad judgement decision. After reading over his post and some of the chat you can tell his moral compass was offset and he felt guilty in his actions during that time period and wanted to play the game straight. The silver lining here is most people will not cheat their fellow man even if they now how and have the option to do it. TheSpork made a mistake.

The real problem as often stated in threads similar to this one is that the people that do cheat and get caught are not properly punished for their actions. The risk needs to be increased to counter the possible rewards of the cheating party. If someone is caught cheating in a Vegas casino they will face a harsh punishment for their actions. The same needs to be brought online.

As for the money owed @TheSpork. It's definitely a dilemma. On one hand you openly knew what you were doing with this guy and owe the money but on the other hand he is a scumbag and has stolen money from many other players. I'd look at it like this for that debate. If the money owed was money lost on the tables then it's a wash and I'd forget paying it back. If the money owed was actually money he used to put up your living expenses, etc during that time, sort of a loan in a way, I'd probably still pay this person back the money. That's my moral stance on this issue.

if you feel a moral obligation to repay the debt i would just give it to charity

The original plan was that makeup (Lost in game) was cleared and money paid for expenses was owed and for a while I was fine with that. Once I realized how much he's heatered on mtts,
(I know it's unrelated and a bad argument) reviewed the dms again, and have gotten many opinions, I've decided my best course is to not pay him and try to make that up by either running an amazing (and ethical!) stable and enabling some players, or by finding something else positive to do with that $14k instead. Personally, I feel with how much he's made from cheating the $14k doesn't even matter to him anymore. But I could use that $14k to start funding potential students sometime next year.

(One player I met and befriended has already risen from 10plo to 200plo in about 4mo and still climbing. I think I can teach super well!)


Long story short, an unofficial debt to someone who has way too much money from cheating I don't feel deserves it back at this point. While it's almost entirely my fault I didn't escape that hellhole sooner, I feel he's still slightly at fault for the 2 years I lost.
(Still mostly on me for being a stupid kid, but still.)

Edit: Thanks for saying I'm worth forgiveness. I'd like to hope so, let's see.

I choose to live by giving up my unfair advantage of using RTA

move to north korea or you're scum