yeah I agree, but it can't hurt I guess

Nah dude, your translation is spot on. And I loled at the bold part; so true in how international community views our countries!

Well it actually can hurt if you believe in it too much and search in a wrong spot.

My money is on his being kidnapped by the Fekalis and Abdul Jalib and put to work training their next generation of bots.

He had Android or IOS ?

If anyone knows his registered mail with his phone and also his password can try to see his last move (only gmail).

https://maps.google.com/locationhistory

"Izmet" is playing only chess now :P

He Joe, maybe you should inform authorities or at least his family about this. best

this is kind of what i was thinking. he talked about leaving and finding himself in a interview he gave during the ept london super high roller. hopefully everything is ok though.

For now no news from Slovenia about Johannes. Only what other people posted up there. If there will be any changes i will translate it to the forum. Fingers crossed for him.

"According to the people who were with him at that time, Strassmann had suddenly left the group and then quickly vanished in one of Gornji's side streets."

I also dont get this. If this had happened in his hometown, ok, maybe. But in a different country, where he`s on vacation or whatever? What could cause you to suddenly split from your group and just take off...? Especially without telling people where you are planning to go. Doesnt really make sense to me at all.

exactly, and why didnt any of his group of friends follow him/ask where/what he was doing? makes absolutely no sense to me as its being reported

I remember 2 years ago there was a case in my home-city Bydgoszcz in Poland, where one Irish football fan dissapeared in similar way (he was enjoyin' his evening drinking with friends and then suddenly walked away w/o sayin nothin). They found him 2 days later in the river, w/o any signs of fight etc, with his full wallet in his pocket. Probably just wanted to pee and lost balance, or just slipped drunk into the water... Some1 wrote that the river is checked so hopefully its not the case. I wish him the best.

Sad that there is no resolution yet. Hope he returns safely

Sounds like the smiley face killer stuff (look it up, its creepy).

Pretty sure I would play limit hold'em online in the pre-pokerstars days and see 6 or 7 people from this place. Just saying he disappeared in a land of scammers. Not saying he disappeared in Nigeria, but it was definitely limit hold'em scammer-land back in the day

Factoring in the reported safety of this city and the fact that he was separated from his friends without them noticing anything suspicious does make it more likely that he left of his own accord. Ofc there is so much we don't know like if he was drunk, his state of mind etc...

Really hope he's ok.

If somebody did kidnap him for monetary reason, they're not going to leave a ransom note, he himself is wealthy, which worries me because looking at google maps...the road that leaves west over the river from prule looks like a hub for many rural towns in Slovenia where it's seems virtually impossible to find his captors.....scary stuff

I feel like many of the posters in this thread have never gone drinking with a group of single guys before. If I know where my friends are at all points during a night its usually a sign no one is having any fun.

Johannes is the type of guy who after not seeing him in ages might start a conversation with "hey Mike, you want to climb Mount Kilimanjaro with me?" not "come with me while I piss in this alley" or "don't let me leave with that girl who keeps checking me out"

really feel like somethings missing re his friends.. do we have any idea who they are? any chance this is some shady guys he randomly met at an ept or w/e and was told theyd hook him up w some big cash games if he ever was in town? and the 'wandered off if into the night'-bit is just way too vague. no info about if hes been drinking, hes mood or anything?

on the balance of probabilities he is most likely in the river, and that sucks. hope he turns up ok

You are obv right, but when you are on holidays with what I assume are close friends, you don't just disappear for a few days. Atleast not me nor my friends.

to me it seemed like they were walking somewhere together, and yeah obv in a bar or restaurant scene when a friend leaves etc to take a piss or have a smoke or talk to a random chic you dont follow after him, but to me the way it was reported was that they were in the streets already and he walked off.....idk about you but if you are walking with a group of friends somewhere that is not familiar/your normally frequented area you are going to wait around for them to return or at least look for them after they randomly disappear relatively quickly.

maybe im wrong and misinterpreted the report

going through the thread i can see people already mentioned most of the pointers which lead me to believe he was NOT kidnapped.

one thing i might add is that johannes was serious about starting a career as an officer in the bundeswehr before he found poker via starcraft. he's also known for doing martial arts for a long time now; he just doesn't seem like the typical victim-type of person, neither his appearance nor his resumee make him look like easy $$$, there'd definitely be easier targets out there for somebody trying to hustle famous poker persona.

really hope he's doing well and just decided to take a couple days of or whatever.

wanting to be a cop and knowing martial arts doesn't prevent kidnapping, minimizes to a degree, but if a guy or group has a gun or weapon, anyone is in danger. Do you really think a hard criminal from Slovenia or wherever else is going to be scared of a poker player?

We should all assume he is kidnapped given the evidence imo. Plan the for the worst hope for the best

kidnapping in this case would clearly indicate there's a criminal person / organization behind it who plans things (contrary to when a child molester just sees an opportunity and goes for the sudden kidnap for example).

there's really no other obvious reason for anybody to kidnap johannes other than the fact that the man's got some serious $$$. and as pointed out in my post, i doubt somebody plans these kinda things and then picks one of the tougher victims, and also goes for it in a kinda sub-optimal environment (think somebody already mentioned that it was well known that johannes wanted to head to croatia next, which would have been much easier place to execute a kidnap as well.)

with that said, the information on the situation obv got me worried too, but to me it rather seems like he was at the wrong place at the wrong time if indeed something bad happened to him.

i'll leave the speculation to the 2+2 detectives now, just wanted to input my 2 cents.

Hope they find the man and he is alright. I met Johannes in a world series event a few years back and he really is one of the friendliest people around. He even challenged me to a high stakes fitness prop bet while we were at the same table ahahah