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Stars is the best site by far they will send you funny emails sometimes and have the pokerstars monkey need i say more? who cares if they dont help if you get robbed?

easy to solve that problem by getting a password protects your account then you have 50 billion on stars and feel safe .

They have access to the hole cards not the accounts. Otherwise the comment is spot on

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01-02-2014 , 09:15 AM

#1127

Jeans

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Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 1,035

As there probably won't be coming any more updates to this;
Pokerstars told me the suspects were from Sweden, and have a history of doing something like this. I won't speculate on who it might be, just felt it might be good for people to know. That's it for me for this case.

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01-02-2014 , 10:05 AM

#1128

GMLAW

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Thanks for the update Jeans.

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01-02-2014 , 10:29 AM

#1129

Smallballs

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Originally Posted by Jeans

Anyone remember a thread involving a Swedish guy Samer Rahman (or something similar) where it was alledged he was involved in hacking and had links with the Swedish mafia?

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01-02-2014 , 12:03 PM

#1130

mordechaiv

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Originally Posted by Jeans

Well color me surprised. I wonder how many millions they have made doing this for almost ten years now.

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01-02-2014 , 12:19 PM

#1131

nice1

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Join Date: Dec 2013 Posts: 47

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Originally Posted by Jeans

Sick. Shouldn't an organisation like Stars help an individual even more in this case? They are the only ones who could trace IPs, and cooperate directly with swedish law enforcement to get them. Perhaps they have tried and swedish police was into it too, and they got nowhere... But I doubt it, likely they do not want to put work into it with not much to gain except trouble.

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01-02-2014 , 06:07 PM

#1132

TouchOfEVil

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samer and company started this crap back in 2007 even @ ept san remo and the consequtive years

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01-02-2014 , 10:03 PM

#1133

Gunslinger1988

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Join Date: Sep 2006 Posts: 378

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Originally Posted by jackinbeat

Ok, i've reached the line, Stars saying nothing and doing nothing is an absolute joke, they do have responsibility to help here, and they should be doing this in the open, as events are continuing as if nothing has happened, are they expecting this to just go away?

Firstly I worked as a dealer for 7 years, on the biggest events in the UK, Ireland and Europe, I don't anymore as I spoke out about the situations that not only could but clearly have had an impact (and this goes far beyond Jeans situation, although in terms of actual losses or potential losses this ranks higher).

Events are manned mainly by great staff, hardworking and dedicated, although should you try and constructively criticize anything, and you're not part of the clique, well it's out the door for you. I'll say this much for now, for a company that is clearly making so much money it's close to ridiculous they DO NOT care about staff, security and there are so many WTF situations this would go on for pages if I started to try and cover them.

It's not just stars, it's poker in general, regulation can't come soon enough, and stars being shown two fingers in the USA is a good thing i'm sure.

I've been involved with poker as a player, dealer, TD and just can't let this thread fade away, poker needs to put stars in their place, and soon, and people with information about stars and other sites/events/casino's need to speak up now, whilst regulation is spreading, the fairness and future of the game could depend on it, and whilst I can and will speak openly on my knowledge, I wasn't in the higher circles of decision makers and fear for what really goes on their and how it will damage poker in the long run.

This is some pretty strong stuff, and frankly I agree with most of it.

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01-02-2014 , 10:21 PM

#1134

Heartland

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Join Date: Jan 2014 Posts: 780

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Originally Posted by Jeans

Well the cat's out of the bag. Anyone who cares to spend 10 seconds using Google can find out now who the suspects are.

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01-02-2014 , 11:34 PM

#1135

PlzCoolerMe

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Join Date: Feb 2012 Posts: 308

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Originally Posted by Heartland

Well the cat's out of the bag. Anyone who cares to spend 10 seconds using Google can find out now who the suspects are.

Or you could just post link and say to save us the troubles since you already have...

I've now spent 5 minutes googling and have no idea who it is.

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01-03-2014 , 12:11 AM

#1136

PlzCoolerMe

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Join Date: Feb 2012 Posts: 308

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Originally Posted by Heartland

Well the cat's out of the bag. Anyone who cares to spend 10 seconds using Google can find out now who the suspects are.

i thought i read earlier today that it was same group that adz was involved with. is this correct?

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01-03-2014 , 08:04 AM

#1137

ozziwar

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Previous thread about Samer Rahman

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/29...ayers-1231581/

Swedish thread about Samer Rahman
http://pokerforum.nu/forum/onlinepok...-fuskarna.html

**** is his partner, or suspect. Not like this guy might have anything to do with this, just following up on the previous posts.

Last edited by Mike Haven; 01-04-2014 at 04:32 PM.

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01-03-2014 , 08:07 AM

#1138

Heartland

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Originally Posted by PlzCoolerMe

i thought i read earlier today that it was same group that adz was involved with. is this correct?

Yeah, I mean they're a pretty well-known Swedish hacker gang per the thread above. That's why I said it seemed obvious.

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01-03-2014 , 10:25 AM

#1139

Ikilldurrrr1

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Stars had a chance to catch these scumbags but let them off the hook.

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01-03-2014 , 02:04 PM

#1140

VP$IP

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There is this

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... the case of Jason Koon, who earlier this year claimed his laptop had been hacked whilst he was playing in the EPT Deauville live tournament and staying at an hotel recommended by the organiser Pokerstars.

Returning to his hotel room one day, he discovered that the password on his laptop had been erased. He subsequently accepted a challenge to play a Swedish-registered account using the handle 'PookLook2' on $1,000 and $5,000 heads-up sit-n-gos on Full Tilt Poker.

He lost $48,000 to the Swedish account, which had a previous average buy-in of only $15.

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01-03-2014 , 03:58 PM

#1141

nice1

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In before it is discovered that Stars is a mafia subsidiary.

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01-03-2014 , 06:32 PM

#1142

PlzCoolerMe

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Originally Posted by Ikilldurrrr1

Stars had a chance to catch these scumbags but let them off the hook.

THIS is the biggest issue... And they need to answer for it.

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01-04-2014 , 08:08 AM

#1143

Kilowatt

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Stars will not answer for anything, because their previous EPT Barcelona event and general reputation are more important to them than doing the right thing.

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01-04-2014 , 06:11 PM

#1144

scroosko

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Originally Posted by PlzCoolerMe

THIS is the biggest issue... And they need to answer for it.

cant believe lee jones didnt arrest them

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01-05-2014 , 01:39 PM

#1145

jackinbeat

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Join Date: Feb 2008 Posts: 399

This thread shouldn't be allowed to die until stars do something.

At the very least do a deal with the computer security firm, release details of the trojan (saying Java based doesn't mean we can find it), and if no arrests are made release details of the case they've been building so maybe, just maybe the rest of the online poker community can help to catch these scumbags.

Until then I suggest a move to Party, 888 poker, Ipoker, Microgaming or any other site other than pokerstars or Fulltilt.

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01-05-2014 , 02:09 PM

#1146

ChoakMyDee

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Join Date: Oct 2008 Posts: 1,768

I wish could get the money back I spent on that "Winning Low-Limit Holdem" book I bought years ago.

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01-05-2014 , 05:34 PM

#1147

DonkvFish

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Wow.. This is sick.
Is there any possibility to have this picked up by any news source to place even more pressure on them?

Perhaps at the very least , put their sec. Manager on blast on social media outlets.