I got into online poker 2004-2005, and end up playing with $50 BR to 500-1k NL. I've focused on 6 max cash games, and I've also been victim to Lock Poker (cake network) scam, when towergaming (ongame network) randomly one day decided to transfer my account (be sold out), and I could never withdraw thousands.
I've been a victim of online poker and I know many more have been as well. I also tried stars over the last two weeks and GG for few months early this year. I don't have the time to do these posts, manually record how both stars and party use the same tech to scam players, but there's one common pattern, which I'll explain below.
Party Poker has been involved in shady activities through the decade, from separating weak and stronger player pool, hiding country flags on accounts and tables being observed, the fiasco with less CO on fast forward that many are already familiar, and I can go on...
In the example below these accounts are 99.99% operated by party poker or they are protected to create this false image that there's some traffic on this network after two decades, where hundreds of thousands have come, and left for a reason. For those who are newer to online poker most of my hands and money lost like in the example below, where the accounts are set to run it once (over 90%) which is why I am certain they're house accounts.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQ4ZmEGoY74
All who've been victim to this network and Lock Poker I have some good news for you. You will see justice and some closure. These criminals may change company names over the years from GVC Holdings to Entain, and who knows what name they'll go under years from now, but because most of their names are publicly available I have a list of dozens of names who've been directly involved in operating or recruiting to scam thousands like me. If you want to also seek justice, the type of justice that would bring peace to your soul, know that you also can, either soon, many years from now, or at the near end of your life. We all depend on the victims who're making this world a better place, because they are the ones who'll fight back to protect what's theirs or for what was stolen from them.
You might not get the opportunity to find out what happened to most of these individuals if the mainstream media chooses not to cover, but you'll still be able to find out later on in your life if you do some research.