I was a semi-regular player on cryptopoker. I’ve deposited twice, and cashed out 4 times in total without issue. I am not affiliated with them, don’t know who the new owners are,
I think the biggest issue with this site was not due to their dishonesty, it was because of their own ignorance which made them a target for dishonest players exploiting the site in any way they can. Two issues that I know for sure were exploited were the automatic 5 chip bonus for new players, as well as a Roullette game with a bug (not sure details of bug but something to do with betting negative chips or something) Both of these issues were eventually corrected, but it’s safe to assume there are/were more.
Which brings me to the point of making an account posting here.
I believe truong registered the account “catreflex” and deposited on cryptopoker for the sole reason of defrauding them by exploiting a bug in their roulette game. I think most likely he discovered the bug under another account which was previously banned for fraud.
I do not have proof or exactly what the bug is, or if it;s somehow related to previous roullette bug, but I wanted to provide the community with the details of why I believe he is a scammer pretending to be a victim. Many of the details were given to me by him directly. Unfortunately I dont have the chat logs - perhaps if he denies any of this they can be recovered.
On April 28th, he posted on this forum:
“Does this site actually pay? I mean can they really afford 180 chips per bet on their roulette? For example their dice max profit is 35.
I feel any money won on their roulette will be a waste of time.”
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https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1016486.msg11227804#msg11227804)
That same night he deposited around 50-60 chips (1 chip = 0.001 btc) and turn them into 1000 chips in “4 or 5 spins”.
He then made several comments in the chat saying he thought this was a scam site, and was just going to try to lose them all.
Then he played another 4 or 5 spins, and got his balance up to over 3000 chips (3 bitcoin) and immediately requested a cashout.
In total, after depositing, he made less than 10 spins turning ~55 chips into 3000 and requested a withdraw. No poker, just 10 spins. This is all while posting on the forum, and in chat, setting up the perfect opportunity for cryptopoker.eu to show how trustworthy they are by paying him quickly.
It’s the way he behaved, and what he said that has me convinced he planned everything out. He wanted to convince everyone that the issue was a bug which allowed him to bet too much. While this may be true, he knew that a mistake like this would still entitle him to be paid, and also distract others from whatever the actual bug he was exploiting is. He also made sure the site was aware his intention was to deposit much more, he was just testing them out to see if reliable and expected to be scammed but didnt care about such little money.
I decided to research a bit, and look through his past posts on this forum. The first thing that I considered a red flag was a post in the pocketrocketscasino thread. He was complaining about another player (username: Melds) not being paid their balance. I can’t remember exactly what he said, but he was bashing them in an attempt to pressure them to pay melds. The owner posted that this player had been exploiting the faucet to the point that he was responsible for 86% of the the total faucet payout while creating multiple accounts to move money around.
I confronted truong with this in chat, and he responded that the owner had negative. Within minutes however, truong had deleted all of his posts in that thread. When I asked him why he was deleting posts, he said it was because he thought that dean (owner of poketrockets) was actually a good guy.
It wasn’t till later that I realized that the truong and melds were ranked #1 and #2 on the cryptopoker roullette leaderboard for total bet. I see melds has posted as well in this thread, and it appears he has also profited from the site.
Finally, I am not defending the way Admin handled the situation overall. They brought it on themselves by not planning and testing out their software before opening it to the public and could of came up with a much better way of dealing with the issues once they realized them.
