Originally posted by zobupasts
Now this is low! I hope PokerStrategy will have nothing to do with this scammer anymore.How long would he be cheating if he was not that stupid and didn't get cought? Fcuking makes me sick!
Hi Zobupasts
Here is the statement from PokerStrategy.com regarding the matter:
Regards
Thazar
Two more posts from 2p2:
Originally Posted by ivvaen View Post
I was in the skype group and can safely assume that Jose tried to set me up for a scam as well. He is the nut low scum and can never be forgiven. I want to clear some things up. First of all, ARE YOU *ING KIDDING ME:This is so immensely false and infuriating. Jose did not feel bad and confess. We had gathered lots of evidence and he caught wind of it. He lied and denied , lied and denied and lied and denied some more. This cant be stated enough. He used all sorts of arguments about how well we know him, how much strat he has posted, “what would I gain?”, “youre my friends” etc. He absolutely tried to deny this for as long as he could and did NOT come clean out of guilt like he claims here. FU Jose you scum, I don’t ever wanna hear about you or see your face ever again. I hope you quit poker and never make a cent from it ever again. SCUM!
Furthermore, from Jose’s conversations about this on Skype he is NOT as sorry about this as he proclaims. He even had the balls to say this last night when we informed him we were going public asap:
[01:25:17] josé maria macedo: stop thinking so much about your reps
[01:25:20] josé maria macedo: and think about mine
[01:25:22] josé maria macedo: for one secondOnce again, are you *ing kidding me????? This kid does not grasp what he has done.
Secondly, this friend story has to be a load of crap. For example, Jose claimed on Skype that Merge wouldn’t detect the cheating by looking at IPs as his friend was online by the use of a mobile internet 3g pen. Why, then, did Sauron disconnect at the same time as Jose, who was on his normal internet connection?
Now, when it comes to the sweating. The point of it was to rail in real time and comment after. Personally, I never got sweated by anyone, but I sweated Jose playing a random fish one time. I did comment in real time on hands and I acknowledge that this is wrong and I should not have done it. It was not my intention when talking about sweating in the first place, and I consider it a mistake and will never do it again. This was the only time I have been involved in any type of sweating as long as I have played poker. From talks with the other guys it seems like they all merely sweated and that any real time communication was extremely limited. I believe this.
I leave you with this gem from the Portuguese Russ Hamilton who is so so sorry for what he has done:
[16:00:16] josé maria macedo: i assume you all know this
[16:00:24] josé maria macedo: but if it goes public, both mysponsors are dropping me
[16:02:45] XXXXX: yeah they're aware
[16:03:16] josé maria macedo: ah, really?
[16:03:20] josé maria macedo: damn
[16:05:28] josé maria macedo: theyreally know that both sponsors will drop me?
[16:05:35] josé maria macedo: and still want to?
and the second:
Originally Posted by ilrg View Post
I was gonna post this today... Jose scammed me for atleast 15k on ipoker.On 28th of June I contacted Yoan Gaidov from hand4hand.net about coaching with Jose Maria Machedo, the so called portuguese poker prodigy. He gave me his Skype info and I added him. He said that he would talk with Jose and forward my information to him. He told me there was a waiting list of like 50 players.
On 29th of June he gave me Joses Skype info and I added him. From that day I would try to contact Jose about coaching. He would ignore me first but then after like 2 weeks we finally scheduled a session. I filled out his questionnaire and was good to go. He wouldnt show up to the first session and also missed the 2nd one we scheduled making up excuses. Then he apologized and said he would make it up by coaching me for free for 2 sessions.
On 07/17 we had finally our first session where we talked about some theory. The session was nothing special and I didn,t get the impression that he is as awesome as everyone seems to think he is. He basically send me the links to the hands he posted on 2p2 (also the hands he made his first video for pokerstrategy) and talked about them. He told me to prepare some conceptual hands and send me to him. I would do that but he never really analyzed them. He would then ignore me again for some days and when our next session was due he delayed it during to having so much stress because of his first video being released.
At this time I was playing almost only on pokerstars and partypoker. On 07/28 I would started playing on ipoker on my old account (maxkatz1) I haven't played there for a while. Jose knew my name there since he asked me on 07/17 about it and. All of a sudden Jose started to show an unreal amount of interest to sweating me. After bascially ignoring me for over 3 weeks and hardly doing anything that can be considered coaching he would suggest to sweat me up to 3-4 times a day starting on 07/31. I played up to 9 tables of 6 max on ipoker.Basically he wanted me to play ongame or ipoker during our sweatsessions. He told me his nick on ipoker is toshisan. Pretty strange if you look it up on ptr - plays low - midstakes hu.
He told me that his ongame account was frozen and that he thinks that games on ongame are great so I should play there and asked me about what my nick there is.
Ok so now the fun part begins. After starting the sweatsession a guy named sauron1989 would sit with me at every table he could at 10-20. He would make some garbage plays (coldcall crap pf v me - make some stupid bluff) then type that he is tilted in chat and ask me to move up in stakes).
Jose told me that he played him for over 3k hands and that he thinks that sauron is a huge fish. He told me he lost like 15k to him at 25-50 but will play him again since hes got really good reads on him. He also encouraged me to start 10-20 games with sauron. I lost about 15 k to sauron on the 3 days where Jose did sweat me.
He would spazz here and there but other than that he was playing in god mode - calling every single bluff of mine. Jose tried to encourage me to play sauron hu and also asked why I won't play him at 25-50.
After sking him several times he finally agreed that I can sweat him and he played about 45 minutes on merge on his girah account. Before and after the session he was asking me again and again if he can sweat me. He was never really interested in analyzing any hands. I got suspicious after getting crushed by sauron 3 days in a row and asked a friend of mine (mdma) about his opinion. He told me that he has read some interesting stuff on a swedish pokerforum a while ago. Basically Jose asked an ipoker reg to sweat him when he played a fish hu. During that session he lost 8 buins or so on on 10-20. Guess to whom he lost? Sauron 1989!
Toshisan has not a single hand played v Sauron1989 according to ptr. Jose asked me to play Sauron from my account since hes getting no action from him. He asked me if he can sit in 4 handed with Sauron1989, me and geeforce1. I said sure but he wouldn't. Then telling me that his ipoker account is blocked cause Hasseeb locked in.
So it all looks pretty strange. First he ignores me and doesn't wann do any coaching. As soon as he sees me playing on ipoker he can't get enough of sweating me. As soon as I sit at ipoker Sauron sits at very table of mine at 10-20 with position and plays in godmode. His ongame account is blocked. His ipoker account is blocked. His moneybookers deposit limit is reached so he cant make a new account and deposit.
What a dickhead...
I hope a lawsuit is filed and he gets convicted, Pokerstartegy should support the people that will file it or do it themselves really
imo dont just copy the posts here link them to 2+2 and stop stealing their hits imo
it's not just 3 buy ins.it would have been more if those guys wouldnt have figured it out.they just cut the tree short.
pretty embarassing and immense dissapointment and his statement is just disgusting,him appealing to the better nature of readers by recalling inspirational scenes from his past.
i think he did it because of greed,too bad he didn't had the character to slap himself over his head when thinking about starting this.
just finished reading the whole section on 2p2, seems like
this 30k is just the tip of the iceberg regarding girah's scamming
Originally posted by matel17
So is he good at poker or was it all a scam?
I personally think he's really, really good at poker. Which only makes the whole thing much more stupid.
Originally posted by luizsilveira
Originally posted by matel17
So is he good at poker or was it all a scam?I personally think he's really, really good at poker. Which only makes the whole thing much more stupid.
Have you seen him playing live? Those hand analyzis etc. said to be written by someone else (source: 2+2). That's why he has used same hands for analyzes and videos on different sites.
LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL
top 10 longest laughs ever.
source:2p2
two ps coaches scamming in less than one month? wtf.
think ps should reevaluate their recruitment policy.
PokerStrategy said they "verified" him before hiring him as a coach so I would be pretty interested to see what they found.
Why would 2M$ earned person would join pokerstrategy? because he would like to become coatch and cheat even more money!
(ofcourse there are a lot of other reasons but still)
Originally posted by cpers
two ps coaches scamming in less than one month? wtf.
think ps should reevaluate their recruitment policy.
+1
Originally posted by yougotfelted51
just finished reading the whole section on 2p2, seems like
this 30k is just the tip of the iceberg regarding girah's scamming
Ye and possibly other HS players involved
Simply, shocked! 
I don'r know what else to say other then what has been already said so far 
Obviously, a lots of disappintment and anger as it was too good to be true to have such talent here on our school. Which shame! ♠_evil:
