Girah found out??

[pleno1]

Really, really crazy shit.

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/29/news-views-gossip/portuguese-poker-prodigy-jose-girah-macedo-scammed-hsnl-players-30-000-hsnl-xpost-1079435/

[smashedagain]

i seem to remember a very similar thing way back in 2006?? when team viewer first came out on the scene. a mentor was helping some of his pupils whilst having over from behind not only them but some of their friends as well. way back then some people  thought this would kill poker  but then i would expect these were the same people who thought poker tracker and showing hole cards would kill the game.

[SuuPRlim]

i seem to remember a very similar thing way back in 2006?? when team viewer first came out on the scene. a mentor was helping some of his pupils whilst having over from behind not only them but some of their friends as well. way back then some people  thought this would kill poker  but then i would expect these were the same people who thought poker tracker and showing hole cards would kill the game.

Yh this did happen.

completely unrelated to a well known (lol respected) high stakes UK player.

[smashedagain]

i seem to remember a very similar thing way back in 2006?? when team viewer first came out on the scene. a mentor was helping some of his pupils whilst having over from behind not only them but some of their friends as well. way back then some people  thought this would kill poker  but then i would expect these were the same people who thought poker tracker and showing hole cards would kill the game.

Yh this did happen.

completely unrelated to a well known (lol respected) high stakes UK player.

how the hell do you know this, you was only 6 at the time.

[Junior Senior]

Cliffs anyone?

[Marky147]

Cliffs anyone?

HSNL Pros have a group Skype chat where they discuss strategy etc.

Portuguese superstar then runs sweat sessions where he Teamviewers his friends whilst they play 10/20+ with aggro spew monkey player.

Aggro spew monkey player irons them out for bundles in short order, players get suspicious and do some investigating.

Transpires that their friend who has been sweating them was in fact the aggro spew monkey account playing them whilst looking at hole cards.

[Eirrabs]

and world starts to fall apart...

http://www.pokerstrategy.com/news/world-of-poker/PokerStrategy.com-Ends-Cooperation-With-Girah-After-Admission-Of-Scamming_50037/

[smashedagain]

seems to me that the number one rule to cheating is dont get caught

[Junior Senior]

So, he will have monies confiscated and returned to 'friends'?

[ManuelsMum]

So will he be prosecuted for fraud?

After all the other stuff that has happened online, you'd have thought the possibility of this scam would have crossed at least one of their minds. 'Please please please play this fish, and let me watch?'

[paulhouk03]

So will he be prosecuted for fraud?

After all the other stuff that has happened online, you'd have thought the possibility of this scam would have crossed at least one of their minds. 'Please please please play this fish, and let me watch?'

i dont think he will get fraud will he? its not like they signed a agreement or anything?
just got scummed

[pleno1]

So, he will have monies confiscated and returned to 'friends'?

Basically begged every high stakes pro to teach him how to win teh moniez
Got in  HU skype chat with lots of different players
Made skype chat V2 and then only invited hgih stakes sickos
Spoke daily ot jUngleman, DIH, sauce etc
Started to do sweat sessions on a daily basis
Got his friends to all play sauran1989 who he described as an agro fish
His friend was actually sauran1989 and sitting next to girah who had teamviewer on
They all did chunks
30k has been found out already, but who knows how much he has done
Also cheated to win a rake race on merge
Only 18 and everyone makes mistakes
He had a lock contract, poekrstrategy contract and access to the best minds in poker and fucked up basically

[Coggy]

It always seems to be the ones with the most opportunities and a good future in poker ahead of them that just get greedy !!!

[NoflopsHomer]

http://www.cardrunners.com/blog/internetpokers/the-girah-scandal

[AndrewT]

Pleno - I think you said that you'd met him out in Gibraltar.

What was he like? How did he come across as a person to you?