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Another blow for online poker..... What can/should be done?
yuranASSet
Member Posts: 485
Poker prodigy and all time scumbag caught cheating for the second time at HSNL.
Jose 'Girah' Macedo a coach with PokerStrategy Created a new account on ipoker and told everyone that the player of this new account was a complete donk and the he was willing too sweat fellow players whilst they played against this new account, which was actually created by him and he made 30k from it.
Will this scumbag now be banned from all sites or is there any measures that allow the police to get involved as the is now the 2nd time he's been caught cheating.
Link removed so full story underneath.
Jose “Girah” Macedo was considered to be the “Portuguese Poker Prodigy” not long ago. Everything has changed as of late though, and this prodigy has come out and admitted one of the biggest scandals in online poker since Justin Bonomo cheated at online poker.Macedo came out on the two + two forum and admitted what he had done, stating that he had been involved in scamming other high-stakes poker players who had trusted him and allowed him to “sweat” these players while he was actually playing against them on another account. ”Sweating” means that these other professional poker players had allowed Macedo to watch their online sessions via Skype, and gave him access to their hole cards. He would then relay these cards to the opponent, which was either one of his close friends, or possibly even Macedo at times.Macedo owned up to this scam 100%, but unfortunately it may not be enough in the end. Because of this scam, he has already lost his deal with PokerStrategy, where he was an online poker coach and had more than 80 students who he helped online. Macedo even “sweat” these players as well regularly, adding more interest into a bad situation. As if it couldn’t get much worse, it wasn’t long ago that Lock Poker was in a bidding war to sign Macedo to a sponsorship contract, and now it has been rumored that he will be out as a Lock Poker pro, and banned from playing on any online poker sites under the Merge Network.Other IssuesThis isn’t the first issue that has come up with Macedo, as he won the Bluff Pro Challenge on Lock Poker, but ended up having the title stripped after it was revealed that a second player had used his account during the event. It seems that the young poker pro had admitted to making mistakes in the past, but this mistake is worse than any others, and could be one thing that sticks to his name for the rest of his poker career.Multiple people have pointed out some interesting facts about Macedo’s poker career, and questioned why he would do this. Macedo has won over $2 million playing poker, and many fans, and players are asking why he would do such a scam for only $30k. Girah said that the reasoning behind him doing this is because he felt bad for getting his friend into the world of online poker, because he had lost quite a bit of money, and that he just wanted to help him get it back. But it is still quite shocking that someone would risk putting their name on the line to cheat for someone like this.Two big named poker pros, Daniel “jungleman12″ Cates and Haseem “Dogishead” Quesreshi were supposed to be visiting, and staying with Macedo in Portugal, but obviously their plans have changed as of late. These two were close with him, and have decided to change their plans. Macedo may have fooled quite a few people in the poker world to this point, but he is paying the price as no one seems to trust him anymore.
Jose “Girah” Macedo was considered to be the “Portuguese Poker Prodigy” not long ago. Everything has changed as of late though, and this prodigy has come out and admitted one of the biggest scandals in online poker since Justin Bonomo cheated at online poker.Macedo came out on the two + two forum and admitted what he had done, stating that he had been involved in scamming other high-stakes poker players who had trusted him and allowed him to “sweat” these players while he was actually playing against them on another account. ”Sweating” means that these other professional poker players had allowed Macedo to watch their online sessions via Skype, and gave him access to their hole cards. He would then relay these cards to the opponent, which was either one of his close friends, or possibly even Macedo at times.Macedo owned up to this scam 100%, but unfortunately it may not be enough in the end. Because of this scam, he has already lost his deal with PokerStrategy, where he was an online poker coach and had more than 80 students who he helped online. Macedo even “sweat” these players as well regularly, adding more interest into a bad situation. As if it couldn’t get much worse, it wasn’t long ago that Lock Poker was in a bidding war to sign Macedo to a sponsorship contract, and now it has been rumored that he will be out as a Lock Poker pro, and banned from playing on any online poker sites under the Merge Network.Other IssuesThis isn’t the first issue that has come up with Macedo, as he won the Bluff Pro Challenge on Lock Poker, but ended up having the title stripped after it was revealed that a second player had used his account during the event. It seems that the young poker pro had admitted to making mistakes in the past, but this mistake is worse than any others, and could be one thing that sticks to his name for the rest of his poker career.Multiple people have pointed out some interesting facts about Macedo’s poker career, and questioned why he would do this. Macedo has won over $2 million playing poker, and many fans, and players are asking why he would do such a scam for only $30k. Girah said that the reasoning behind him doing this is because he felt bad for getting his friend into the world of online poker, because he had lost quite a bit of money, and that he just wanted to help him get it back. But it is still quite shocking that someone would risk putting their name on the line to cheat for someone like this.Two big named poker pros, Daniel “jungleman12″ Cates and Haseem “Dogishead” Quesreshi were supposed to be visiting, and staying with Macedo in Portugal, but obviously their plans have changed as of late. These two were close with him, and have decided to change their plans. Macedo may have fooled quite a few people in the poker world to this point, but he is paying the price as no one seems to trust him anymore.
Comments
i think the worst thing that will happen is that his reputation among poker players is just completely destroyed
doubt ppl will try to get police involved as hes paying it all back + more
I only see the multi accounting thing being an issue here if one person has one opinion of a player than the other players shouldnt treat him that way before theyve seen him play.
I have herd of people who think Gus Hansen is a donk...am i guna throw myself into a headsup match with him because my freinds dont think he's that good?
Very bad do IMO
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dont think thats entirely ethical either