Wow.

nice read.

besides that i re-post an old article, because i think it shows perfectly that even lower skilled / low-tech criminals can get (physical) access it shows that hotel security (especially casino hotels) are a complete joke

http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2013...ey-not-guests/

Yeah that would kinda seem obvious right?
Maybe its pre-empted? Although hard to tell where a standard maid would gain her info from...

Hello Jens,

as your countryman I have been reading your writings about this case at Barcelona Arts. It seems to me there are several badly handled situations from the point of adequate security measures.

Before proceeding on any details, let´s consider the possible intruders. If you are investigating a crime like this, you can assume two kinds of actors, even mixed behind the scene.

Since my limited language competence, I just name these as good and bad guys. You could have been under an covert investigation on money laundering or organized crime. If someone becomes suddenly rich, he will be investigated for the origin of his money.

Or you could have been attacked by those who use gaming environment for stealing valuable information or money by injecting malware. Other definitions of financial crime may also apply. However, this is not yet important, since a crime investigator should not have any fixed ideas of the perpetrator before the evidence is gathered.

To find out the actual happenings in the Barcelona Arts, you need information about all the contingencies happening on the floors you were staying during the tournament.

The most important thing is to make sure who were staying at the same floor at the same time as you. The timeframe for the described actions imply the perperator staying in the hotel and knowing you hotel room. You should receive the time stamps of all doors and hotel keys used during the intrusions into you hotel rooms. Then you know who was in their rooms and who were not.

All hotel keys must have an identifiable person all the time. If the hotel keys and logs can be altered somehow, we have massive security issue that compromises the security of all hotel quests as wella their posessions. A crime investigator should find out who provided the surveillance and door locking systems for the hotel. You should have a statement from the vendor.

Crimes of this kind are usually done with a team of people with distinctive roles. Planning, controlling, assisting, executing and hiding the crime requires a narrow timeframe and planned action. With your mathematical mindset, you can imagine the amount of people needed to do this crime. What is the minimum amount people necessary for this crime?

In your story there are several facts indicating Barcelona Arts affecting the crime and aftermath. The security people I have talked about this case have been laughing aloud as they have heard you description of the explanations given by the hotel.

First of all, you should always call the police into the crime scene. Secondly, the police will decide - not the security personnel of the hotel - how, when and by whom the isolated and quarded crime scene will be investigated.

I can understand your position and feelings during the all disturbing happenings. You are young and you have been fooled - surely not helped by the Barcelona Arts.

What you have done right, is that you have written down your perceptions during the stay at Barcelona arts. This is important, since your perceptions describe the circumstances during the crime and real risk to any customer in Barcelona arts.

And yes, the hotel personnel may be involved. They may have been snooping around your stuff when you are away of your room. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oulbBdmGH8o They also use protecting gloves not to leave fingerprints.

With your help and information, I can find out more details, how this crime was made and who was behind it. I do not charge you at all for making a private investigation. I use this case as an instruction to build up a better security for hotel guests.

I do understand also, if you do not show more interest on this case. You should be safe in a hotel and be able trust the people who are paid for that job.

In his new blog Jeans writes in finnish about playing PLO in Amsterdam against Cyril and winning 125k€ over the past couple of days.

Cyril Mouli or Cyril Andre?

link?

https://www.sijoitustieto.fi/sijoitu...2#comment-2372

Mouli.

Wow crazy story! Thanks for posting.

Successful pro poker players are hated by many people who would see this as morally acceptable way to get back. Its pretty obvious more than one was in on this, security and a maid maybe. most likely the ringleaders were jealous online poker losers and they see you like the removal workers in Dire Straits " Money for nothing" saw the rock stars but in a more sinister way. Most thieves feel a moral right to rob someone.

I bet they were thinking and saying " those ****ing poker players" every time the EPT was on there. They hated and were jealous of the sight of these young millionaires waltzing around in Gucci trainers and expensive over sized Swiss watches discussing the delights of Macao . They may also hate the regular rich guys in the hotel but it would be harder for them to benefit from a real estate tycoon or financial guy or top lawyer or rich some Russian or Arab. Apart from having less in common with them it would be harder. They wouldn't know where to start unless they left some cash or jewels out.

The fact that their mission failed showed they were not MIT grads. More likely harebrained losers looking for their big break.

In their ( poker losers) minds poker pros are also thieves, outplaying them due to skill, better conditions and working their way up from micros hence less financial stress.


Hotel safes should be big enough to fit laptops in.


You cant trust anybody not even in a 5 star hotel

I just found this article and it seems this technology is getting popular...
http://www.hackingnews.com/vulnerabi...puter-seconds/

http://gizmodo.com/watching-a-usb-ha...-le-1672704228

Awesome device.

ermmm. So what the hell happened with this?

op got paid to stop pösting ldo

Isn't this thought to be related to the trojan prosecution which is (was?) going through the Danish courts?

Such a shame this didn't get any consequences. What a ****ed up world we live in.

I remember years ago I red Jeans' his story for the first time and I totally lost track of this thread till now. (thanks for the bumps)

Now that I'm up to date I can say that pokerstars will never learn from their mistakes. They messed up bigtime, yet again.

Transparency is key these days for poker to survive. PS, as the biggest player in the business, going totally silent on this story is the worst way they could have handled it. Makes them look shady and corrupt and that is something we def don't need for poker in general.

It makes me sick how much bad stories I have to read these days about poker.

I stopped playing at PS years ago because of all the crap they pulled. Now I enjoy my time at other sites such as Unibet. They have a new client who is rec friendly and although it is in full development, is way ahead of PS on so many levels. HUDs can't be used and Unibet is trying everything to bring back the good old poker we love where you are sure you are playing a human and not some kind of bot. There is also a thread on 2+2 where the head of poker for Unibet replies to all your questions on a daily base. They don't go AWOL for years on a very serious matter ( )

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/28...hread-1452899/

Sorry for the derail but Unibet needs more love for what it is doing to the poker community with his client.

And last but not least,

F*** you Pokerstars, you cheating scum

As Lee Jones might say, other worlds are available.

I stayed at the Arts hotel for the last 6 nights and 4 nights at the Confortel, the official Estrellas hotel here at the EPT Barcelona.

On the 2nd day, after I got back from a tournament to the Confortel, I went on my laptop. When I switched it on, it all went black and white blurry, with weird stripes on the screen and it would't start. I tried a couple of times more, but it wouldn't work.
Note that this laptop is only 4 months old and I never had a problem with it. Also it was working completely fine before I went to play the tournament. Also the cleaners were already there in the morning, so they couldn't have dropped it or something.
My roommate wasn't in the room that afternoon and confirmed that he didn't go on my laptop this day. I also live with him outside of this trip and I trust him on that.

So this seemed pretty odd to me, that my laptop just stops working, being practicaly new. I considered going to the reception, but I figured they wouldn,t do much about it, and having still warranty on the laptop I didn't care to much.

After I moved into the Arts my new roommate arrived. He brought his laptop aswell but didn't use it all week until yesterday. When he turned it on, he had weird stripes on his screen aswell and the laptop didn't start. He tried again, this time it started really slowly, but eventually it did. Four virus warnings came up from his anti virus program. He restarted it again and it went back to normal.
At this point it is hard to say what caused the damage on our laptops and what kind of damage it is.
I still found it really suspicious that 2 laptops, we hardly use on the trip stop working/get a virus. Having the Jeans case in the back of my head I went to the Arts reception and reported what happened. They let me talk to the security manager and I requested a list with the keylogs but they told me they can't just print out the list and I would have to write down the times we entered the room for the whole week and they'd compare it.
This is obviously pretty hard, but we tried it anyways. We used the times from some pictures we made on the pool/beach/sightseeing and also used the tourney schedule to reconstruct aproximate times we entered the room.
We gave the list to the security manager and this morning I was shown a list of keys different to ours that entered our room. It was badically only housekeeping/minibar and room service. Some days housekeeping entered 3 times a day though, with 1 hour time frames inbetween, which seemed a bit odd to me.
Anyways it was obvious I can't do much about it, and at this point I don't have any proof a third person entered our rooms and manipulated our laptoos.
I don't accuse the hotels to have to do something with it, just found it was a weird coincidence that we have problems with 2 laptops we almost didn't use on this trip and we also never had any problems with.

Everybody else I talked to about it found it pretty suspect aswell.
I am interested if anybody else had problems with laptops in either the Confortel or the Hotel Arts during this EPT. I find it hard to believe that anybody would target me or my roommate, since we are both relatively unknown in the live poker scene and I am sure there would be a lot of more lucrative targets for potential hackers/scammers.

Scusi,

That sucks, sorry to hear. It's too bad we never learned what was the outcome of the investigation in the Jeans case. It might have given an insight in your case. It does seem like someone tempered with your electronics.

For those who still decide to do this event and stay in this hotel; someone needs to set up a hidden camera and end this ****. Ridiculous.

I see your laptop is working again now or you were able to access the internet in another manner. All is well that ends well.

lol wtf man?

Too much coke bro