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such a crazy story, epic drama bomb unfolding

-Are all these nosebleed players stupid?
-Live sweat sessions if you playing these stakes?
-Confused...

So disappointing. I talked to him some on Skype prior to his rise. He said multiple times he intended to get some coaching from me but we never scheduled anything. I'd answer some of his hh but I wasn't really into spending a great deal of time coaching some dude for free as I have a lot of other priorities in my life. All things considered though, I never viewed him as anyone that would ever do something like this - but i didn't have a ton of personal experience with him either.

I'm curious about what sort of stuff he said to to his crew that made him seem like some kind of prodigy. Maybe it's just because he actually used real metrics to discuss hands like combo counting and board texture and some math, but obv that didn't really stand out to me since that's how I've approached the game and analysis for quite some time now.

I watched his video and it seemed reasonable. It seemed very similar to stuff I did in my math series with some decent slides put on hand range talk but there were definitely some things he said I disagreed with.

Poker really needs a white knight. Unfortunately it seems like so many have dirt on them.

Whoa, really crazy stuff.

Wilt, I thought you were poker's white knight disguised as a blue power ranger?

Hes seems really smart at thinking about poker but really stupid for trying to do this scam. See the people who got scammed were quoted saying girah kept harassing them to play the same guy and let him sweat them. Surely it would be apparent that he has some questionable motives for this....

The under-tones of the affair is that it isn't clear that he actually is this prodigy. And DIH is in a bunch of trouble.

He claimed to have access to DIH's Ipoker account. There are also claims that when other sweated HIM, he didn't seem like an all-conquering HS prodigy. So at the least, there is interplay between him and DIH at the account level. Considering that DIH spent a long time "away from poker" last year, Girah could have just been a front for DIH and/or others. After all, the video Girah presented was just powerpoint, and it was noticeable (you'll have to trust me here) that he spoonerised a bunch of words, which struck me as strange.

Didn't DIH lose a bunch of money to someone who had managed to get a trojan on his PC and then play him HU? I imagine that would effect someone quite badly.

Not that that has anything to do with anything.

shady people......

Just gotta remember how young this guy is... if he straightens up... and is clean from here... like Bonomo seems to be... then he can be reclaimed...

no no no no no, the two situations are nothing alike. after reading the threads, having a guy like 'girah' in the poker world at any point in the future would be shameful to all who let him exist

Bonomo multi-accounted, right?

That's completely incomparable to someone gaining people's trust over a period of months to then proceed to scam them.

It reminds me of that Stoxpoker coach that had people believing he was a high stakes PLO player. It's truly sociopathic behavior, these people probably even believe their own lies.

no no no no no, the two situations are nothing alike. after reading the threads, having a guy like 'girah' in the poker world at any point in the future would be shameful to all who let him exist

Yeah I agree,,, I read it at a time when the thread hadn't developed to what it is now.

Looks like the guy has behaved in a totally unforgivable way.

Wouldn't even mind it if a DC mod fixed or removed my reply.

http://www.cardrunners.com/blog/internetpokers

Terribly dissapointed, hopefully he's just a kid and he'll grow out of it - or do something really stupid/entertaining and take on Isildur for a shot at redemption.

http://www.cardrunners.com/blog/internetpokers

What's amazing about this is that he still seems to believe that his winnings were real. I would be very surprised if this turns out to actually be the case.

kind of of interesting that InternetPokers says in his dailyvariance "mediocre vs word class" that one of the best ways to get better is to let better players sweat you lol

Don't want to steer things up, but i found that kind of funny

What's amazing about this is that he still seems to believe that his winnings were real. I would be very surprised if this turns out to actually be the case.

Who knows, maybe he started out shady and then straightened out later once he started winning at high stakes - was this scamming stuff recent?