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The poker coaching world just had a big shake up, and the story is going crazy in all the major forums and poker blogs. Jason Ho was a poker coach at the popular training site Stox Poker, and recent stories came to light that he was a professional scammer. Although he was somewhat knowledgeable about poker, apparently he was a losing players, and did not win $1 million or “solve plo cap limit Omaha”. It seems Jason Ho had a professional ponzi scheme in effect, and was using his credentials at Stox to pull it off.

Jason Ho is an eccentric individual to say the least, even for the poker scene. He is an expert at self promotion, whether he looks like an idiot or not. His scam netted him over 100k for the poker economy, so some people were obviously fooled. He would post pics of weird photo shoots with make up on and a hot Asian model named “Jade”. Unsuspecting poker players would join his “camp Macao” and pay up to 1k per hour in some cases.

Jason played under these accounts :
zenconcept
zen888
jadebling
babiekwai
lilbebi

Jason was so cocky about his scamming abilities he would brag about it on Oriental Community forums:

Not only would losing players seek his coaching, but winning players would too. They would go from winning 100k a year to losing months later. He would also get them to send him money to clear bonuses. Jason would also multi account by playing under their screen names. He failed to show up for 50% of the days of these “Macao” session, and when he was there he would berate his students. When they would lose, he would blame it on variance and or that they did not follow his advice.

A user who was looking up his websites, had a trojan virus infect their computer within minutes:

So be very cautious when visiting his blogspots.

Jason Ho Photo shoots:

Jade

Jason Ho and Jade

Some threads paid for by the poker community

Jason Ho also has several liens put on him in UK from some other scam.

His Camp Macao being mocked on Poker Tube:

Jim Varmin of Stox Poker took immediate action to remedy the situation. He staktes on Two Plus Two:

Conclusion

We will reimburse for 100% of the first two payments for any coaching services with Jason and 50% of a 3rd. We will not reimburse for any payments after the 3rd.
Jason Ho Two Plus Two thread

So it looks like Stox cam back big, and is reimbursing people for coaching fees paid to them. Jason is still defending himself in Two Plus Two under the name : code7654321 .

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Cyril Mouly con by BadBeatBoris two plus two

Cyril Mouly is wanted by international community for fraud. Cyril is known for being the new high stakes whale playing in Bobby’s room at the Bellagio Casino. Tom Dwan and Phil Ivey would lick their chops at any chance they could get to play him. Unfortunately this is all over now that he’s on the run. High Stakes rail birds were so pleased at the thought of this mystery man that they created a whole thread about him on TWO PLUS TWO and nicknamed him Le Frenchman.

When I heard he was a billionaire and playing the stakes he was playing, I did an hour or two of research on him. All I could find on him was an address in a French wine region. I found it odd at the time that there was no info on this mystery billionaire. This put up a huge red flag in my head at the time. Usually, if your a billionaire, there is going to be a ton of info on you on Google or elsewhere.

Here is translation from French website:

Cyril was the Frenchman, was the last guest of honor in Las Vegas, where he played very big in the casinos. (Photo Eric DESPUJOLS)

Cyril Mouly, presumed innocent until he has been sentenced by a criminal court would have played more than 4 million at the casino between 2007 and 2008. During the same evening in Cannes he would bet close to 300 000. Cyril the Frenchman, long observed by the officers of the executive subcommittee of the races and games, has now disappeared. The PJ has lost track of him since he escaped to British customs.

Cyril is on the run.

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The first high stakes poker game after the new rules to the Full Tilt 7 Game went off on Wednesday. Since the blinds were lowered in the Pot Limit Omaha/No Limit Hold ‘Em game, the new games that went off on Full Tilt Poker was played at the $2000/$4000 HEROS tables. Regulars filled the table, including Gus Hansen, Cole South, and David Oppenheim. However, the 7-Game wasn’t dead. While the limit being played were at $1500/$3000, the heads up tables still got action. Two different tables went off between Richard Ashby and Cole South. The first big hand of the day came in a big Razz pot between Gus Hansen and Cole South. Although South picked up a scary card on fifth street, he continued to play back at Hansen and eventually took this pot with a bet on seventh street.

Our next big hand was from the heads up game, where Cole South picked up a Razz hand from Ashby on this hand.

While Hansen had just lost a large pot to South, this next hand shows South taking the rest of ‘The Great Dane’s’ stack.

Hansen didn’t rebuy into the game. This caused David Oppenheim to also sit out, killing the action on both of the $2000/$4000 tables. South and Ashby didn’t disappoint the high stakes fans, however, building a massive pot on this Omaha hand.

The two heads up tables were not set up to be epic matches, with both South and Ashby sitting on stacks of over $100,000 on both tables. Ashby quickly changed that, however. It was a big Stud Hi pot, with Ashby taking the win with Aces and Kings.

A huge pot took place in the Pot Limit Omaha round. Ashby made a bet of over $17,000 on the river and was quickly called by South. Ashby showed a full house, which was good enough to take the pot of over $60,000.

South got revene in this hand, but for a much smaller amount. A pair of aces were good to take this hand for over $20,000.

It didn’t take Ashby long to regroup and take the next big pot. A flush was good for this pot worth over $30,000.

Ashby continued his upswing taking this big Limit Hold ‘Em pot from South for the tune of nearly $40,000.

South finally got some revenge in this hand. A full house was good enough to take the pot of $30,000.

This ended the heads up play for the day. Ashby sat out, leaving South to lick his wounds. Ashby ended up being a winner for around $150,000 on the session.

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Phil Ivey has topped the all time money list in poker tournament winnings. He overtook Daniel Negreanu who he’s been trailing since before the 2009 WSOP Main Event. Had Phil Ivey not lost with AK to Darvin Moon’s AQ this feat may have been accomplished back at the final table of that event. Daniel Negreanu states in his poker blog that Ivey is the most consistent winner in all the different styles of poker in the live high stakes poker games. He also states that :

“It’s my belief that Phil Ivey is the best poker player in the world, and that includes every format. I’ve played live with him, and cash, Hold’em, Stud, Omaha, whatever, and he is just the most consistently good player at everything- include online based on what his results look like. I don’t think anyone has won more money online, live play, or tournament poker, than Ivey. Pretty strong.”

Phil Ivey has proved himself to be the best in the world. He is has the best winning record in online poker cash games *, live cash games, and now world class poker tournaments.

Poker All Time Money List:
1st Phil Ivey $12,802,783
2nd Daniel Negreanu $12,432,367 *
3rd Jamie Gold $12,201,061
4th Phil Hellmuth Jr $10,991,871
5th Scotty Nguyen $10,955,557
6th Joe Hachem $10,856,216
7th Peter Eastgate $10,630,471 *
8th Allen Cunningham $10,398,118
9th Erik Seidel $9,814,424
10th T.J. Cloutier $9,787,199
11th John Juanda $9,730,882
12th Men ‘The Master’ Nguyen $9,221,767
13th Carlos Mortensen $8,894,713
14th Joe Cada $8,626,099
15th Jerry Yang $8,263,393
16th Johnny Chan $8,232,651
17th David ‘The Dragon’ Pham $8,194,767
18th Chris ‘Jesus’ Ferguson $8,032,900
19th Justin Cuong Van Tran $7,956,635
20th Paul Wasicka $7,628,127

Phil solidified his first place in our Top Ten Poker Accomplishments of all Time. Congratulations to Phil Ivey.

* Not sure what Ivey’s winnings are compared to Chip Reese and Doyle Brunson
* Daniel may have more than noted here
* Peter Eastgate just made money in a tournament and is not reflected here.

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