and im only on page 1, good luck too all parties, unless there has been good results as of now, i guess ill find out as i read further

They what, "had him on the phone" ?

Did they prosecute ?

Did your friend get is money back ?

What casino/card room ?

Just had an email from TripAdvisor

My review has been removed. What a load of BS

How did they justify that?

Did you actually stay there? If not, the review should be removed. If you did you should protest the removal.

This guy knows what hes doing- if william holmbery is his real name u might have something to work with.

http://kartor.eniro.se/m/n8kfI

so this was alleged to be a william holmberg who lived near the hacker samer

Seems he also goes by jan mats josef holmberg

http://www.ratsit.se/19620925-Jan_Ma...dvAmPZJR8Q7MHQ

edit: seems like a dead end

Why has there been no recent updates from Stars?

I was there aswell, my roomkey didnt work directly after check in so probably malfunction.

This.

It seems to me plenty of time has passed; there should be a statement of some sort from Stars.

What has that got to do with anything. TripAdvisor have no idea if I stayed there or not. They sent me an email which I disagree with. The post was very detailed... Here is said email:

Dear TripAdvisor Member,

Thank you for taking the time to write a review of Hotel Arts Barcelona on TripAdvisor.

Over the years, we have learned that reviews without a substantive account of the traveller's experience are not very helpful to other travellers. Therefore, we do not post reviews that do not contain enough relevant information on the given listing.

You are welcome to resubmit a more detailed account of your first-hand travel experience and/or photos that meets our guidelines at any time.
Our guidelines for writing reviews can be found here: http://www.tripadvisor.ie/help/our_g...aveler_reviews

We look forward to seeing your contributions to our community.

Best regards,
TripAdvisor Support Team

Let's see. Bunch of first timers put in practically identical reviews. Pretty clear case of non-visitors doing what you were doing

Tripadvisor needs to be on guard against bogus reviews and unfortunately 2p2 campaign there fits the signs.

This whole PookLook2 issue is quite interesting. I find it quite strange FTP simply says "There is no evidence of wrong-doing by this player" although the same player was suspected of wrong-doing just a few months earlier. Very incompetent by FTP, isn't it?

Yeah, you're right. I suppose though that they just briefly watched the hand histories of his latest X hands, to check if he was colluding or making strange plays. But most likely he didn't perform strange plays to one who just looks briefly at some hands, nor did they find it strange he was seating with the complainer, in this time where bumhunting and hit 'n run players are not so scarce. I guess they just thought him to be a good player, who received complaints because people could not understand why he was so good, not knowing that he could actually see his opponents hole cards. This would be my guess....

What tneva82 said. A legitimate review is from someone that actually visited and experienced the property. You did not so you are not qualified to leave a review.

You think that someone should be able to leave a book review on Amazon without reading the book? "I am leaving this review because my friend said it it was terrible." That would also, correctly be removed, no matter how eloquently they put it or how much detail they included.

Forgive me if this has been asked/answered: Have you been able to check your online poker accounts, bank accounts, etc.. to see if your $ is still in there or if any transactions have been made?

Wait, what?

As a pretty regular user of TripAdvisor, the last thing I want to be reading is a bunch of reviews by people who never stayed at the hotel.

Reviews without a substantive account of the traveller's experience might be a tipoff.

Sounds reasonable to me.

And they even offered a way for you to get a review back on there. I fail to see the problem.

Almost 1000 posts and nothing substantial to report.

Most unbelievable thing in the all story is that he is one of the highest stakes playing player in the world, buys tickets to space but grinds on a 2004 broke ass laptop...

LOL. Priceless...

And still no response from Pokerstars..

Yes unreal.

Is the laptop back from getting inspected? As a Greek American, this worries me.

Clearly the silence on this topic now is SOP. I'd be surprised to get anything from Stars. Hopefully op at least let's us know the results of the computer check, but I feel even that won't reveal anything of substance.

What on earth does being a greek american have to do with it?

Infact don't answer.

It is a reference to another (very funny) thread....can't remember which one at the moment.