SCAMMERS CONFIRMED!!! Cryptopokerclub.io STOLE 2.2 BTC (~20k$) FROM ME! Here is the story:
On 11 October 2019 (11.10.2019) I've requested withdrawal of 1.05 btc through their windows client, and they sent it to some other address. They claimed that I made the mistake:
The correct amount of BTC was sent to the correct address provided in the withdrawal request. Both of which have been checked again. It is the responsibility of the player to provide us with the correct address, we cannot be held responsible for incorrectly copied addresses...
...In addition, there have been no other complaints of such kind regarding any withdrawals on this platform...
Really, nowhere else? not even once?
The thing is
when you paste your address in thier windows client it
stays filled until a new one is pasted even after restarting client and computer. So there were no mistakes. The address they sent to was completly different. They recomended to enable 2FA or to withdraw the entire balance(this is probably were the catch is if you accept withdraw you confirm that mistake was made by you):
Regarding receiving, such an issue has never been reported by any player. As we can not identify the issue we unfortunately cannot do anything else to resolve this matter.
All we can advise is letting us know to enable 2FA for your account regarding withdrawals as well as making sure to use the right address.
For testing withdrawals, you are free to withdraw whichever funds you wish. After making the withdrawal request, we will email you the address specified and after you confirm via email we will send
that through within 24 hours.
So I enabled 2FA confirmation via email.
Next day 16 October 2019(16.10.19) I made 50$ testing withdrawal. As it went through I was thinking that probably they made a mistake or someone in their team have stolen, but they didn't want to
take responsibility.
The next day I sat down to play a session and that is when really strange things occurred. As I sat in 1-2 players at the table start slowplaying/ruin the game. After my raise preflop one of them starts
timing out all the timebank and after fold/sitout mode he, then sits in and repeats the action. wait to time out, sit in, wait - sit in and so on.. After 2-3 times the player leaves and a new one joins who makes
the same things. That started happening across all the tables I was sitting in. Those were all the familiar players I was playing previously.
At this point it became obvious that
almost all the pool inflated with their weak house players, and I was not welcomed here. My guess is that there is a
team of players who plays under
different nicknames. 3-4 team players sit and play against 1-2 real players.
After that on 19 October 2019(19.10.2019), just
3 days after testing and getting "
you are free to withdraw whichever funds you wish" I've requested new withdrawal of 0.5 btc leaving 0.585
and 0.07 in rakeback(a week after stolen btc!).
5 days of waiting the 2FA confirmation and they send me the letter that they
confiscate all of it. Accusing me in using some tools, hud stats with
no evidence, no reply, and simply deleted from everywhere with no communication:
After carrying out a thorough assessment of your account activity in the last 3 months a decision has been made to permanently close your account.
Our team have been consistently receiving numerous complaints from players regarding suspicious activity on the basis of utilizing banned tools/software to gain an edge in game.
After reviewing over 22,000 hands in the past 3+ months it has been concluded that your account has used tools to gain an advantage when compared to all other players on the platform as well as
baseline statistics of professional players worldwide.
Initial player reports have been received since July 2019, however without enough sample data we dismissed such claims made against you. Since then however the reports have been growing and
after reaching a sizeable amount of data the team has concluded irregularities within your playing activity which support the claims made against you for using external tools/software to gain an advantage
which is in direct violation of out Terms of Use as we do not allow any HUD stats, solvers or assistance software of any kind.
Based on the information gathered our team has used the remaining balance in your account to refund recently affected players consequently settling your account to 0 mBTC. Thank you "
Well. The thing is that I am using
pencil and
paper as a "tool" and
do not have any of that "
kind". So the accusations are simply ridiculous.
I've been into poker for 12 years, understand what is GTO and how to deviate from it to exploit your weak house players, which are playing 10nl level at 400nl 800nl tables.
You do not need "assistance software of any kind" to exploit them. Imagine 400nl-1knl players limping like 30% of their range, all different players play same style. limp/fold, limp/reraise/fold, overfolding to
cbets, brls, no clue how to play 3bet pots. And then, all this high stake players I see playing the lowest possible limits.
Last days before they kicked me I've observed a lobby and there were nobody playing through all limits except the highest .5/1(800nl).That was interesting, have never seen that before in that lobby.
Usually it is 100-200 players online: 1 table 800nl, 2-3 400nl, 4-5 tables of 200nl.. To compare SwC has like 200 players and 1-4tables of 50nl maybe 1-2 tables of 100nl, rarely higher limits. Here you are
like in 2004 probably, I thought OMFG I've missed 2004 boom but here it is!
They also
cheat with leaderboards.
I've made "5 star" status in May and was the only player in btc games to have it and should've got the first place. But at the end of the months they put me on 3rd place in leaderboard.
The first 2 players were "4 stars" status and were one tabling all the time.
One of them at 400nl and the other at 800nl.
I was playing 3-4 tables, was starting tables, and had to add 2-4 tables at lower limits to make "5 stars"(in order to have "5 stars" you need to make 1btc in rake.)
When I asked them why are these "4 stars" players above me they simple referred to "visual bug" and "focus on my own game" lol.
I've seen those players 2-3 more times, they disappeared after.
And the winner was seen "3 stars" the next month, so he didnt have "5 stars" and didnt even make 1btc as status lowers if do not make required in rake, there were no "visual bug".(I have print screens)
After competition ended I had to wait for a week until I wrote to support they forgot to credit me the 3rd place winner.
Another cheating we can see in their last post of "October's leaderboard".
The first week my nick "bilbit" in "high stakes leaderboard" and second week I'm already in "mid stakes" although I was always playing same and only tagged "high stake tables".
Their support telegram admin "loled" at me when I asked him to contact support for respond to find out about my first stolen withdrawal. "You are waiting only 30 min for respond? lol, be patient, 1btc is
not 10k" was his respond to my concern that account was compromised.
There are some other things like their web client which overloads the system, probably they mine using player power, 50% penalty for your entire account if you do not clean rake for bonus.
The support is misleading, rude and haughty... nothing positive.
I demand my money!
I also strongly advise admins of bitcointalk.org not to encourage this scammers to advertise here as they harm community and bitcoin popularization.
Stay away from scammers! I would also welcome any information about people behind this project.
