Poker players have made several indiscretions since Black Friday as the holdem poker download world has been forced to make changes due to the disruption. Turmoil and drama have been rampant, and some people have been driven to do some extremely unethical things. The story of Jose “Girah” Macedo is an example of all of the above.
Macedo seemingly came out of nowhere with a true rags to riches story. Dubbed the Portuguese Poker Prodigy, he allegedly used a single €30 deposit and went from $0.10/$0.25 No Limit Hold’em cash games all the way up to $100/$200 No Limit Hold’em. Two respected players, Daniel “jungleman” Cates and Haseeb “DogIsHead” Qureshi, vouched for his skill and knowledge of the game.
People were confused when Macedo wouldn’t make his screen names public in holdem poker online, which he claimed was at the request of his lawyers. All doubts were silenced, though, because numerous high stakes players offered to wager 6-figures with anyone who wanted to challenge the story of Macedo.
Soon Macedo was made a Lock Poker Pro, but this is where things get sketchy. He had won a competition on Lock Poker, but then he got disqualified due to multi-accounting. His story was that his backer had used his account and played some Pot Limit Omaha while he was offline. No one knew the backer in question at the time, but it has since been brought to knowledge that it was Qureshi.
Where lack of ethics is concerned, however, there is plenty more to talk about. Macedo had become a member of a Skype chat consisting of high stakes cash gamers. He urged several members of this chat to play people that he claimed were big losers at high stake games. Macedo also wished to watch these matches in real time, which meant that he knew their hole cards at all times.
Every single player in the Skype chat that played these “fish” ended up big losers. These players pooled together their collective information and came to the conclusion that Macedo was cheating them due to having access to their hole cards. It was apparent that he was either the owner of these “fish” accounts or he was passing information on to someone else. It didn’t take long for the discoveries to go public, and Macedo was driven to admit in his blog that he had, in fact, cheated these players to the amount of $30,000.
It is unfortunate that these things are happening right now in the poker world. If you want to take a break and wait for the dust from Black Friday to settle, I would suggest making a William Hill casino download. There isn’t nearly as much drama with Blackjack right now. The William Hill download is also a well-known and trusted brand, you should be safe playing poker there!