Waow

If his phone is on why haven't the police geo-located it?

Slovenian police rival that of Mexican cops with ethics. Don't get me wrong Slovenia is a beautiful country and the people are beautiful and amazing, but there is still a 3rd world element to a certain degree about it and a lot of people are dirt poor. I hope to god he's ok.

One of countries major newsites reports that a special unit searched the river that runs through city of Ljubljana and found nothing. (there was an incident few years back when one tourist got really drunk and fell into the river and drowned) - so it makes sense from a police perspective to check this out first imo. Regarding criminal foul play, like kidnaping or worse, I find it really hard to believe. I live nearby and Ljubljana is an extremely safe city, especially city centre where he disappeared. At worst you can get into a fight and you get mugged (but that pretty much doesnt happen in the centre at 22, no way). I hope everything is all right, if you need anymore info about what our media reports I am glad to help/translate or give any info.

I've played live poker in two places in Slovenia, Ljubljana and Nova Gorica. The latter was a ****hole and I could easily see bad things happening there. Ljubljana in the other hand seemed about as safe as it gets. I played a four-day tournament there a few years ago, got drunk like a monkey every night wandering around those same side alleys alone in the wee hours and felt much safer than I'd feel at home in Finland. For me too with my limited experience it's really hard to imagine something violent happening there, unless someone was targeting him specifically for his wealth which is a scary thought.

Abrblja, if there's any new information in the Slovenian media/forums/wherever I'm sure Johannes's friends would appreciate if you kept us updated, I'm sure a lot of them will be following this thread.

theres currently a bug on skype, windows 8x App and maybe mobile app.

i also have some ppl on my list which are permanently online even if all computers/phones are off.

i googled a bit about it and ppl say it happens when u use the skype APP and turn off the device without logging out from skype before. many german ppl have this Problem it seems.

just saying, its highly unlikely that the phone is on and they didnt find it yet

One of the nicest guys I've met, this is really ****ed up . It's 100% him btw

Hopefully this ends well. Does not sound good.

Did they release Joran van der Sloot already?
JK i hope she turns up somewhere soon...

Well if they havnt found anything yet either in the nearby park or streets.
Other things need to be looked at which im sure there doing but we have no info to help with,
but abrblja if you can find out his friends names that he was with and anything else through your friends next town over,cool. more theories for us to work on and maybe in some way contribute to the polices ask for help

Dont mean to upset his friends but feel it should be mentioned that its
ODD that on some information available that he left the group suddenly without telling anyone ,
maybe told 1 person in the group but not the others?

sorry to speculate and nice that his friends hired a private detective to help

damn, that sounds scary.
i mean what are the most common scenarios when a 30 y/o man disappears

Child support.

A couple days ago where I live a 30 year old male cyclist went missing. It took rescuers a couple days to locate his body in a ravine. Apparently he crashed.

If Johannes went on a spiritual journey, that would be more promising than the alternative but even that wouldn't necessarily mean this would have a happy ending. UFC fighter Evan Tanner died at the age of 37 when he decided to take a spiritual journey...albeit, he did so in 118 degree heat.

saw this guy play at the EPT shr, really nice guy, hope hes ok

Forgot about Evan Tanner. That was so sad. I will never understand why he wasn't prepared.

I just read his wikipedia page.

The part about his death is one of the saddest thing i've ever read ...

Isn't Ljubljana where all the limit hold'em scammers played out of back in the day?

Rockrock: lol that was an april joke set up by our "tv celebrity"who played online then; i think his screenname was lojzka also known as DERB(doesnt ever run bad) on 2+2

Edit: aprils fools day

http://www.24ur.com/novice/crna-kron...emec.html?bl=0

This is translated by google translate with a bit of tidying up by me using my knowledge of other Slavic languages, not specifically Slovenian.

29-year-old German, professional poker player, missing in Ljubljana.

Ljubljana, 06.24.2014, 19:00 | M. R.

Police have reported that since Saturday evening 29-year-old Helmut Johannes Strassmann is missing. He was last seen in the Prule area, his height is about 180 cm and he has short, light hair. Anyone who knows anything about him is asked by the police to communicate.

(there is a video here which doesn’t play on my machine and a photo of him)
Helmut Johannes Strassmann
(Photo: PU Ljubljana)

Since the evening of 21 June the 29-year-old German citizen Helmut Johannes Strassmann is missing; he was last seen on Sunday at around 10 pm in the Prule area of Ljubljana. His height is about 180 cm, he has shorter, light hair and is probably wearing a white T-shirt and blue jeans.

The police ask anyone who knows anything about the missing person to report this to one of the telephone numbers of the police: the emergency number 113, the anonymous line 080 1200 or report it to the nearest police station.

Strassmann is reported to be (something) world professional poker player. He mostly plays online, but he also has his own school where people including stars like a former tennis player Boris Becker learn poker.

He came to Ljubljana to visit acquaintances; on Saturday at around 10 pm they were in Gornji Trg in the old city; he suddenly departed from the group and disappeared into one of the streets. The acquaintances have hired a private detective and a fortune-teller (WTF??????!), who is also assisting in the search.

The police have asked for help from drivers of public transport and taxi drivers; this afternoon members of the special unit also combed the Ljubljanica (the river)

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At least according to online dictionaries the word vedeževalka has only one translation to English as fortune-teller. Who are these acquaintances of his?

you're right, vedezevalka does means a fortune teller, but moreso a medium or a psychic in this case. To me it is very odd that he was out with friends and then suddenly left the group and disappeared. How can this happen? In that video that doesn't play on your machine reporters also say they were planning on going on a vacation in Croatia in the next couple of days, so it's a really weird, worrisome situation.

It is good news that they were planning to go to Croatia, because it means that anyone aware of his movements and planning some kind of foul play would do it there (isolated islands, and coastline, strong currents, small boats everywhere) rather than in the centre of Ljubljana. The chance of being randomly attacked in Ljubljana (by someone who doesn't know he is a millionaire) are much, much lower than in any major English-speaking country. Unless there is a kidnapping note, or someone is leaning on him for bank and poker passwords etc, I actually suspect he has disappeared himself for whatever reason.

Don't you think it is slightly odd that they hired a psychic? Top poker players and the kind of people poker players know are too rational for that kind of thing aren't they?

Please correct any mistakes in my translation. I speak Slovak - which as we know is exactly the same as Slovenian but maybe I got something wrong.

Presumably pokerstars are aware that they should be monitoring to see if his account is logged into?

His friends that he was visiting here in Slovenia, are organizing a search party for the 3rd day now. Not sure what's up with this fortune teller, but I guess you do everything you can to find your friend.

Second that. I have people on my skype listed as logged on when they are out flying etc.