I don't think anyone could argue that he DOESN'T have personality issues...

Can anyone zoom in on Samer's computer screen and see what sn he's playing under?

Would say it's impossible from that pic but if you got the original you would be able.

0 chance.. maybe if we had the orig image....

Or some association or group that can request an audit of information found to be suspicious. The only reason a whistle blower is needed is because there is no access at all given to the players or outside investigators.

This leaves the poker community in a state of speculation, conspiracies run rampant, individuals reputations are dragged through the speculators forum, the reputation of online poker falls with every episode.

There is never an explanation of what was found from the internal investigations, hence never resolving the unanswered questions. (TLK 44v33 never dies)

We as players need to demand the ability to audit the sites that host our games, we will self police when given information. We also disregard bogus speculation when we have information to disregard it with.

I am starting to believe that having no access to evidence is hurting the poker ethos more than any damning evidence could.

"It is better to remain silent and thought to be an idiot than to open your mouth and remove all doubt" is not the policy I want the gatekeepers to use when guarding the integrity of poker. With each passing scandal, this policy of silence loses credibility to me.

I did not say that. Mis attributed quotes ITT

Agree w the above 100%

Any thoughts on Swedish poker journalist who is friends w Samer? She could boost her career BIGTIME & gtfo of sweden or already be compromised by her connections...

Cliffs on what's happened after the first 50 posts? Has there been any proof?

Regarding PCallinallin's post. I like the idea of sites working with the players in order to detect cheating. In contrast, I think that anonymous tables are a bad idea for poker. They kill the little bit of transparency we have in this game and make it virtually impossible for the players to assist the sites in identifying cheaters. They also make it easier for the sites themselves to cheat the players say in a case like AP/UB.

Cliffs are at the end of the OP and were updated 3 days ago. Not much has happened since then.

I've been concerned about your well-being for quite some time.

acdawg wrote this in other thread
"I know this is old, but I played with Mohamed "The Terrorist" Kowssarie this summer at 2/5 NL at Venetian this summer. Saw his player's card when he sat and thought it looked familiar but didn't put 2 and 2 together. He played well and was very nice. Another player had a little $5 prop about his food service delivery time, and he obv paid up when he lost.

After I moved to another table, he joined me after our tables combined. When he said he was Swedish, I finally figured it out. I talked to him a little about the scandal. He denied it obv, and said that he and Johnny were cool. Nothing new. Was pretty funny to see him order 2 huge meals, one at 1 am and one at 7 am. Just letting everyone know, if he did scam money, he sure doesn't have it now."


Seems like kowasarrie was in fact robbed/ extorted by the banditos then, whatever dealings he had going on with them

Posted this in a similar thread without knowing about this one:

I know this is old, but I played with Mohamed "The Terrorist" Kowssarie this summer at 2/5 NL at Venetian this summer. Saw his player's card when he sat and thought it looked familiar but didn't put 2 and 2 together. He played well and was very nice. Another player had a little $5 prop about his food service delivery time, and he obv paid up when he lost.

After I moved to another table, he joined me after our tables combined. When he said he was Swedish, I finally figured it out. I talked to him a little about the scandal. He denied it obv, and said that he and Johnny were cool. Nothing new. Was pretty funny to see him order 2 huge meals, one at 1 am and one at 7 am. Just letting everyone know, if he did scam money, he sure doesn't have it now.

Matt "ADZ124" Marafioti
@brianchastings What you did 2 Isildur1 was 1 of the most unethical things done ever done @ nosebleed poker. It was never my place 2 say...
June 27, 2012


seems a bit ironic now eh

Has anything ever surfaced about the possibility of XBLINK on UB being a superuser or having something to do with this Samer kid? I played him a bunch at HSNL HU and was always very suspicious. His story was something along the lines of running a $50 deposit up to 1.8m in a month.

Let me make an educated GUESS. Samer and Mohamed work with the Swedish Bandidos. In 2010, Samer became friends with Matt. They probably had played online before this. Samer was hanging around Matt. Probably going out of his way to be nice and tell Matt he's the $hit with deception in mind. Samer introduces his boy Mohamed. They all hang out and play together. Samer and co plant Trojan on ADZ124 comp. Samer holds on to this Ace of Spades. He works for the Bandidos or at least with them. The Bandidos need money to fuel their business and this is one of them. They bring an IT guy in with poker connections and see if he can recruit a small team. Matt is presented with this opportunity and at the very least angled hard...actually cheated in that flip hand on pocketfives. I would actually say its cheating unless he made it right with a transfer and we all know that didn't happen. Matt can't keep his mouth shut. He tells Altrus and probably others that will come to surface soon. There is no way that Matt...living such a "Baller Lifestyle" doesn't come home one night crank up 50/100 and start cheating. It he saw hole cards it's a HUGE issue. When something like that happens in life you either hide it or tell someone. He tells Altrus and claims he never cheated. I would say on the whole he wasn't a complete cheat. His play at PCA is an example of him actually being a really good player who happens to be reckless and possibly bi-polar. He probably is very scared of these guys because Samer told him do you know who I work for. You don't want to mess with these guys and gives examples. Altrus genuinely feels bad for him at first but can't deal with these antics anymore. Everyday he disrespects the world with his comments. Come back down to earth Matt. Be honest. Let everyone know that Samer and Mohamed are business partners with a "1%er"...a biker gang that is considered by the DEA to be an outlaw biker gang that kills or does whatever else for sustainability. They need money. Their employees gotta eat. They were using Samer and Mohamed to fuel their business. Don't give any white lies though Matt. If you cheated the least bit fess up. Learn from Justin Bonomo who I am pretty sure we all respect now and I would go as far to say he is a class act after the way he interacted with players at the 25k sat to One Drop I watched. You need to come forward. Stop threatening and if you get a lawyer...his first advice to you should be to walk away from twitter...or since you are such a Baller be like Ivey and have someone tweet completely reasonable things for you.

I am sure I am not completely right. However that is my educated GUESS.

this is pretty insane , hate to give ideas but some scum hacker can pay an escort/stripper to put **** on your labtop while you are sleeping.
moral of the story, don't let anyone use your computer

or go to sleep with a hooker in your room

Lol poker

This is common sense if your not a poker player... lol

Did Patrik or Lodden ever mention how they were hacked?

This is all we know from Lodden's perspective.

"Lodden Accuses Fast_Freddie of Cheating
30 Apr, 2007 Poker Gossip
In a recent interview with PokerNews, Johnny Lodden accused Mohammed (aka Fast_Freddie or TheTerrorist) Kowsa of cheating him out of hundreds of thousands of dollars. The interview was posted on 2+2, which created a very intersting discussion where several high stakes swedish players responded, and Fast_freddie himself even threw in his two cents. Here is the translation of the original dutch interview, translated by 2+2er Rabbitsmustdie:

On the first of juny 2006 he made history by losing the biggest pot in online-poker history. His opponent, Fast Freddy, won a pot worth of 465.411 dollars! In the consecutive period of time Johnny lost a few hundreds of thousands dollars to this player. Johnny was mistified, as it had always been him winning loads of money from fast_freddy and not the other way around.He [ff]was one of the worst players at the online high stakes games. There have been rumours that FF hacked Johnny’s and other players’ accounts and by doing this was able to see his opponents hole cards. I talked to the usually silent Johhny when I was in Monte Carlo and we also talked about this matter.
[....]
Lot’s of people think FF is really Freddy Deeb, but you know better?

-Yes I know who he is. His name is Mohammaded Koswa and not before long he was one of the worst players online. I lost an incredible amount of money to him and it doesn’t make any sense at all. We are convinced that he scammed us.

That’s a remarkable story. Who are “we” and do you have any proof?

-There are more people of whom he suddenly won a lot of money. Myself, I don’t really have undenieable evidence, but I heared others do have. We are collecting all the evidence available at the moment. If he pops up again, we are going to get/handle him, that’s for sure.

Could it be that another player was playing on his account? A big player who is a lot better?

-No, and I am a 100% sure. It just can’t be. The moves he was making were completely irrational. But enough on this mather, I’m sure it will be all right.

If it’s all true, this must be “The scandal of the decade”.

-Yes, it is, I hope I get him.

This post was followed up by one by a new 2+2 user who registered with the username “ItIsTrue”:

TLK found a trojan on his computer after F_F had contacted him trying to set up a game.

TLK bribed a tech support guy at an ISP to find out who was recieving the info that the trojan was sending.

The one recieving the info? F_F.

F_F has connections to either Hells Angles and/or Bandidos and have been known to threaten people at the poker tables.

The high stakes players in Scandinavia are scared of F_F and more then one player have commented “I don’t want to get killed, so why should I care?”.

TLK stopped playing right after this info leaked early this year.

F_F can’t get a game started anywhere online.

I guess someone tipped off Kowsa about the post on 2+2, as he then added his side of the story, defending that all these accusations were not valid:

here is my side of the coin

This is how it starts:
The first time I ever got in touch with this story was indirectly contact from Erik “Lirarerik” Friberg where he claimed I had cheated him and beat him out of 200.000$ and the game was a setup. At first I had problem even understanding what the intentions of this accusation was as I never had played Friberg for that amount of money.

For the record one of the few players i am down on total against is in fact Lirar Erik because i am not the best omaha player around and constantly played him on B2B for a period of time and this is exactly the discussion Ive had with him the previous year during the EPT barcelona.

I had heard these reputations from some time from real friends and seems things has got out of hand by now, the truth to this story lies that Lirar Erik felt the game i beat him out of PLO 200-400 i won this game irrational and way to fast to be fair gamin

So E. Friberg wants his money back and claims he has evidence for this.! But hesitates to show me what the evidence is.

Now what is funny is like i still stated is that I never beat E. Friberg for this money to begin with, I understand that Erik Friberg must mean the period Erik123 used my account and won 450 k on FullTiltpoker using the alias TerrorOfSweden and 200 of them in fact coming from Erik123.

Eventually Lirar Erik must realise after checking this up with Erik123 who is a big player profile in sweden as you must know he realises this.. and now maybe his puzzle falls into place but alas to late…the reputation is way out of hand and now people I meet in local casinos tell me that I have this nasty reputation behind my back but some hesitate tell me the whole story.

Now what happens is due my quite unorthodox play I get to hear from the sessions I am up That I must have cheated -
Now Johnny Lodden who about a year ago lost to me series of 200-400 sessions has heard all of this and all the sudden my play is irrational and I am the worst around, Even tho in Barcelona I openly challenged Johnny to a series of headsup matches live – i am still the worst i guess. I could however see where the accusations come from BUT..

…instead of confronting me – he goes to pokernews and talks [censored] behind my back, something i must put an end to.

Now let me give you a brief background on the game between me and johnny lodden – this game took place when johnny was in monte carlo during the peak of heights in my bankroll prima network. I played him repeatedly with good runs on 200-400. Most of the big pots can be found on highstakes database and I am always wiling to sit down and go them trough with anyone conceurned in this matter. What is funny is people believe I have beat johnny for his whole bankroll when in fact I had two big losses for 250 respective 160 k losses – And alltogether although i am up, I cannot predict the end if I had kept playing Johnny for a longer session. Now how can someone go out accuse me like this inaccurately especially when himself admits he has no evidence about this?

I’d like to also take time answer to the whole MSN story:

a while ago my msn and my contacts were hijacked by a hacker – the same thing that happened to Cogaz and various of other players on primapoker, luckily i got logged out from my accounts at same time I was infront of my pc and managed to put freezes on most of my poker accounts.

HOWEVER alot of contacts leaked out and the villain even chatted and attempted to manipulate my contacts in loaning money pretending to be me or even trick them in various websites. These actions as much as Id like I could not affect in any way. All of this can be backed with my logs of conversations with hotmail support and the local police attempting to reclaim my hotmail.

The day after I got control of my account I personally talked to all my contacts that if you got any malicous files sent from my account during these 48 hours you should consider scanning your computer for trojans or malicous software.

Like i stated before this is not something new to my ears and something has been circulating for over a year / i have chosen not deal with it before the accusers come to a point, but since it all seems to be about slander and putting me down in media instead of trying to make a point I decided to write this.

I cannot explain all the technical details now how things are spread but after this experience I hired a security company to evaluate my system and I recommend anyone who takes poker seriously to follow my step.

Hope this puts a different light to this whole scene but then again I guess i can be flattered as I must be so much talent I am mistaken for something so wrong.

/TheTerrorist"
http://www.bankrollboost.com/poker_b...e-of-cheating/

Wow... pretty damn interesting development coupled with the stories about being assaulted by the Bandidos & his business dealings with Seyyed.
Matacow, any idea when he got assaulted by the Bandidos?

He finished 18th in a $1500 NL event at the end of this years WSOP and 4th @ Aussie Millions this year for 418k... Based on Hendon Mob results he seems to be traveling quite a bit & playing high buy in events. Results look v. solid but always tough to tell with live tourneys.
Either staked, degenning, or still has some serious coin.

Interview with him & Samer was from July 2009.

"What does Johnny Lodden think"...

And wtf???

Today's twitter roundup

i think you have the story right, but if ADZ knew that other HSNL players were being actively scammed and said nothing about it, it makes him just as culpable as it would have if those chat logs are not doctored.

my guess is that adz and samer were/are friends. Samer is tied into the gang as you say, and he might even possess the IT knowledge to pick/write/employ the trojans to cheat other people. What if through their friendship adz is the one who was effectively picking who to get scammed?