A huge scandal on the 2+2 forums has surfaced recently, which involves respected members of the online community. 2+2 moderator, “Cornell Fiji”, whose real name is Steven Ware, has been accused of stealing $30,000 from a fellow veteran 2+2 poster named “Admo”. When Admo first spread the news on the forums, all of his topics were quickly deleted by Steven. This moderator abuse did not last long as word eventually spilled to other parts of the 2+2 forums, beyond Steve’s control. Neverwinpoker.com, another major online poker community, quickly picked up on this information and posted all the dirt on their front page, uncensored and unedited in response to the moderation of Admo’s original topics on 2+2.
The following is a private message from Steve admitting to moderator abuse:
The root of this drama started a few weeks ago around July 15, 2008, when Steven made a thread requesting to trade his cash for online poker money. Admo responded to this thread and a deal was eventually made between the two. After feeling a sense of trust and confidence, Admo decided to send first to Steve and initiate the trade. Admo transferred $30,000 from his Full Tilt Poker account to Steve’s FTP account, “TheMatadorKGB”. After this occurred, Steve was supposed to go to a local bank and deposit $30,000 into Admo’s bank account to finish the deal. Admo did not receive any money in his bank account and grew a little worried. When he tried to contact Steve, he received no reply from private message or text message for two days. Then after three days, Admo received a message from Steve: “well I’m sure you probably guessed what happened…” and it continued on to say that Steve had lost all $30K at the Bellagio in Bobby’s Room and would return to New Jersey to pay back Admo. Admo quickly demanded that Steve send back the funds on FTP, but Steve replied claimed he lost it all to a player named BoostedJ. It is later confirmed that this was a lie and Steve never lost any money to Boosted.
Admo reveals that Steve private messaged him with intentions to repay the lost funds with several options:
(i) Borrow from friends
(ii) Borrow from family
(iii) Sell everything he owns
(iv) Repay via advance from his upcoming book
(v) Repay in a month and a half when he can sell some stock
As of August 5, Admo claims to have not received a single cent from Steve, which prompted Admo to bring attention to this situation on 2+2. Admo has also threatened to file a lawsuit and involve the police in hopes of speeding up the repayment process. Admo has gone as far to create a website which will follow his adventures as he tries to collect his stolen money: stevenwareisathief Dot Com.
He also created a photo edited image poking fun of this scandal:
Right now on Pocket 5’s and Two plus Two there is posts with evidence that there are Super Accounts that
someone at Absolute poker or an employee there was using to cheat. The accounts were “Super Accounts ” that could see everyone’s hands, IP, names and more! The data was sent to a player who complained to Absolute support and they accidentally sent him the data. He then gave it to his friends who did some serious investigating and data mined the player in question. The account then made a ton of money and dumped it in 200 400 games. The player who won it in the high stakes games was a new account, who then cashed out right away!
It has come to my attention that there is a Poker “sweatshop” at work at Full Tilt poker. The story was originally posted at Two Plus Two. I have used my resources in Pittsburgh to disclose to me the person in charge of this ring. I cannot tell you that I viewed this in person so this is second hand information. The photo below has been verified!
I was told about this story one year ago but did not remember the guys name. I called a player from one of the rooms that I play in and had them remind me of the name.
The person in question is Charles Kuruzovich (aka full_tilting). Charles goes by “Chuck” in Pittsburgh poker rooms. One day his brother “Fast Eddie”(who is a poker dealer in underground rooms) was bragging about his brother “Chuck” in Johnstown who pays 6-8 people
to sit in a room and play on a system. He pays them $8.00/ hour. He has set rules for the “human bots” to abide by. Once they are in a situation with a big hand, they call the ring leader over to make a decision. Now keep in mind that I do not know for a fact that it is Charles Kuruzovich who is involved. He was the one pointed out in Two Plus Two. His screen name on pokerstars is Chuckk. I don’t see how this can be anyone else. How many people do you know that are heavily involved in poker that run “human bot” operations. I repeat that this is the alleged person. Further investigations must be done to find out the exact facts. I will email Full Tilt and ask some questions today. I do not know if this is cheating but in my opinion it is an unfair advantage. It might as well be cheating.
Right now there is a thread on fire at Two Plus Two poker forums about poker bots in 1/2 nl Holdem. This guy has been using software like poker tracker to data mine Full Tilt. He then spotted a pattern with certain players at Full Tilt. The players (or poker bots) names are:
1ForTheThumb
0_Drunkenboxer
Full_Tilting
Mariojr
There are several more bots around too. Now these may not be bots. I know of a guy in Pittsburgh who hires people to play in 1/2 nl rooms and only play certain hands. They never fold AA unless they are 3 bet then they signal the guy to make a decision. He pays them like 10$ an hour or something like that. It is very possible that these accounts are from these people.
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