Jason Ho Scandal | Poker Blog

January 31st, 2010

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 believe that StoxPoker has a responsibility to reimburse coaching fees for those that were introduced to Jason through StoxPoker and had a bad experience using him as a private coach.

I have been forthright in saying that:
• Jason was not vetted as other StoxPoker coaches have been. I let down the StoxPoker community and our other coaches in that regard. Coaches since Q4 of 2008 have all been subject to our formal QA process previously described before their first video is posted.

• StoxPoker could have acted as a 3rd party escrow agent for all funds involving coaching arrangements. That is already being implemented.
For the reasons previously mentioned in this statement, members that were introduced to Jason through StoxPoker and had a bad experience with private coaching from him will be reimbursed. However, there is shared accountability for those that continued to make payments to Jason for coaching. Therefore, we have taken this into consideration in policy.

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 .