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Question: Who owes the players their money back?
Cyrus - 7 (35%)
DeadGiveAway aka Admin - 9 (45%)
Both should split it - 2 (10%)
Neither of them. - 2 (10%)
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January 15, 2014, 08:38:23 PM
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this looks like serious stuff ... Huh
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January 15, 2014, 08:49:19 PM
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Deadgiveaway did you read the posted PM conversation in this thread? Can you verify the information provided or maybe expand on this? It seems there are some things that don't add up there, and I think maybe your input would help us understand a little better.
 The only people who know the full story are the people who own/run the site. We as players are just poking around for answers, and speculating as to where the truth lies.

Sure I can try to clear up anything. I'm not sure exactly what you want cleared up. I have read the PM's and z3Moons made astute observations that are logical questions to pose and I myself would like a straight answer. Who owns the site really? Who is ultimately responsible? Cyrus claims he wasn't in charge of this or that, yet his role was everywhere and no where. There was a point where we both answered an email, so a user got a double response, yet Cyrus claims he wasn't in charge of emails. I have to admit I went with my gut feeling when deciding to work with Cyrus. I thought that Cyrus really wanted to create a successful poker site and that we could make it happen. Obviously I made a bad call and really should have questioned the deal more, after seeing how quick he is to skew things another way to save his face.
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January 15, 2014, 09:16:02 PM
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Deadgiveaway did you read the posted PM conversation in this thread? Can you verify the information provided or maybe expand on this? It seems there are some things that don't add up there, and I think maybe your input would help us understand a little better.
 The only people who know the full story are the people who own/run the site. We as players are just poking around for answers, and speculating as to where the truth lies.

Sure I can try to clear up anything. I'm not sure exactly what you want cleared up. I have read the PM's and z3Moons made astute observations that are logical questions to pose and I myself would like a straight answer. Who owns the site really? Who is ultimately responsible? Cyrus claims he wasn't in charge of this or that, yet his role was everywhere and no where. There was a point where we both answered an email, so a user got a double response, yet Cyrus claims he wasn't in charge of emails. I have to admit I went with my gut feeling when deciding to work with Cyrus. I thought that Cyrus really wanted to create a successful poker site and that we could make it happen. Obviously I made a bad call and really should have questioned the deal more, after seeing how quick he is to skew things another way to save his face.


So that contridicts Cyrus saying he had no access to emails or didnt do emails.....so in reality, cyrus did have access to emails and could have responded as it piled up. Interesting. Why is cyrus not admitting that so casually. weird. Again, Cyrus, your feedback? lol I mean seriously, how long are you going to sit online as this thread piles up with questions about your website you took peoples money and they trusted you with? seriously?

Yea. Sept. 20th, 2013 was when I made the deal and I can show you a screenshot of him sending an email written in his language on November 21st, 2013, signed by him. He of course never mentioned this email to me. So that proves he used that email account and saw the emails.
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January 15, 2014, 09:23:48 PM
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Deadgiveaway did you read the posted PM conversation in this thread? Can you verify the information provided or maybe expand on this? It seems there are some things that don't add up there, and I think maybe your input would help us understand a little better.
 The only people who know the full story are the people who own/run the site. We as players are just poking around for answers, and speculating as to where the truth lies.

Sure I can try to clear up anything. I'm not sure exactly what you want cleared up. I have read the PM's and z3Moons made astute observations that are logical questions to pose and I myself would like a straight answer. Who owns the site really? Who is ultimately responsible? Cyrus claims he wasn't in charge of this or that, yet his role was everywhere and no where. There was a point where we both answered an email, so a user got a double response, yet Cyrus claims he wasn't in charge of emails. I have to admit I went with my gut feeling when deciding to work with Cyrus. I thought that Cyrus really wanted to create a successful poker site and that we could make it happen. Obviously I made a bad call and really should have questioned the deal more, after seeing how quick he is to skew things another way to save his face.


So that contridicts Cyrus saying he had no access to emails or didnt do emails.....so in reality, cyrus did have access to emails and could have responded as it piled up. Interesting. Why is cyrus not admitting that so casually. weird. Again, Cyrus, your feedback? lol I mean seriously, how long are you going to sit online as this thread piles up with questions about your website you took peoples money and they trusted you with? seriously?

Yea. Sept. 20th, 2013 was when I made the deal and I can show you a screenshot of him sending an email written in his language on November 21st, 2013, signed by him. He of course never mentioned this email to me. So that proves he used that email account and saw the emails.

I have a hard time beliving that someone who owned an entire domain name didn't have accessing to their admin@bitspoker.com address no matter what he says. That's why I asked if he still owned the domain or if you did....because as the domain owner he has access to all emails through his domain ownership since the email is in fact a bitspoker.com email address....

im sure if you skimmed in the email you would find many more instances where he was using the email.

LOL who owns a domain name and says they dont have access to its's email. LOL.

The sad truth is he has been playing these kind of games from the beginning. He can't stick to one story, and doesn't know what it takes to run a legitimate business.
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January 15, 2014, 09:32:57 PM
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 So this person who can't be bothered to resolve a monetary issue as small as this with a site that has his name all over it is going to start a "non-profit" to promote Bitcoin in Romania. Wonder how fast that money will disappear.

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January 15, 2014, 09:40:11 PM
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I am turning my back against this mess, Cyrus, because I'm not greedy in nature as yourself. I'm truth driven and community driven, unlike you. I feel I've been misled and I would like my BTC back. I can't defend a crook and serve a community at the same time, no one can. I apologize to the players for going along with this joke to any degree, that is one mistake I can come out and admit to have made. Iron and clay don't mix.
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January 15, 2014, 09:59:17 PM
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Yea, like I said, he's uncommitted to the success of BitsPoker, or just doesn't have what it takes to build a trustworthy name (because he's not trustworthy.) At least now the players can understand the heart of the issue. Imagine me trying to deal with this guy. Matter of fact, a day or so after the deal was made, he went missing for an entire week and comes back like it's not a big deal. The only reason I didn't try to get out of this sooner, was just that constant belief that it is not what it seems. Knock knock, who's there? Cyrus isn't, unless he feels like it, and then he's brought a sorry excuse with him. Gee, I wonder why BitsPoker went to the dumps. but thanks for adding the Christmas hat to the site logo, you're the man. Get real. btw, Christmas is over, you can take it off now.
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January 15, 2014, 10:23:11 PM
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It's pretty obvious he moved this thread away from his current scam so he could ignore it. He will not even show his face in this thread. We get screenshots because you are too much of a coward to face the accusations,and resort to PMs with one person so everyone involved doesn't see the whole story. I'm not sure why you are a moderator on this forum, unless this site is a hub for scammers. I'll be sure to spread the word. Oh after a little searching I see that there are a lot of scammers involved with this site. Makes perfect sense now.
I moved it in this thread because it was offtopic to that thread. I replied via PM to the questions I have been asked in PM. Please refrain from calling me names.
I wasn't the one managing BitsPoker and haven't made a single satoshi out of it, on the contrary.
You guys want to talk and see what can be done about it, fine by me, I'm more than willing. But pe polite about it. Thanks.


I was polite when I asked a question before this post of yours yet you did not respond.

Who is auctioning BitsPoker?

Will funds be added to BitsPoker "soon" as stated 3 days ago on GrindABit so that I can withdraw?
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January 15, 2014, 10:47:21 PM
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It's pretty obvious he moved this thread away from his current scam so he could ignore it. He will not even show his face in this thread. We get screenshots because you are too much of a coward to face the accusations,and resort to PMs with one person so everyone involved doesn't see the whole story. I'm not sure why you are a moderator on this forum, unless this site is a hub for scammers. I'll be sure to spread the word. Oh after a little searching I see that there are a lot of scammers involved with this site. Makes perfect sense now.
I moved it in this thread because it was offtopic to that thread. I replied via PM to the questions I have been asked in PM. Please refrain from calling me names.
I wasn't the one managing BitsPoker and haven't made a single satoshi out of it, on the contrary.
You guys want to talk and see what can be done about it, fine by me, I'm more than willing. But pe polite about it. Thanks.


I was polite when I asked a question before this post of yours yet you did not respond.

Who is auctioning BitsPoker?

Will funds be added to BitsPoker "soon" as stated 3 days ago on GrindABit so that I can withdraw?

I started the auction since something needed to be done and I'm done with this site. I'll take it down if Cyrus wants me to, since it's his site and I didn't ask him prior to making the thread, but then what about the players? Hmm?
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January 15, 2014, 11:07:15 PM
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Guys, timeout for a bit.
Deadgiveaway, nice of you to show up here. I haven't mentioned your alias(or name, or anything else) in here because I respected a part of our agreement: your wish to remain anonymous. As the wish for your involvement to not be public.

Speaking of terms of our agreement, let me name a few:

- Buying BitsPoker for the amount of 12 BTC(I think under $1500 at that day) and 50% of future profit. Changing the ownership of the domain wasn't discussed, but I wouldn't have had anything against it.
- Handling expenses: hosting, development and promotions.

Are you sure you respected our agreeement(talking about the second one)?

I sticked around from the start(haven't absented more than a day or two without announcing), helped with everything that I could and spent a lot of time developing for BitsPoker. But not too long after his funds 'ran out' and blamed the freerollers. I made deposits into BitsPoker (0.35 lately) and also paid for a number of things, like the sponsored GaB forum or hosting. This wasn't my attribution.

To be honest, I had a great time talking with him and considered him sort of a friend, his attitude changed a lot in the past couple of days though. But that's another story.

I never said I didn't have access to email. I did and helped responding to some, or helped him formulate better replies. But from day one he was to be in charge with this. [Someone from my country did contact admin@bitspoker.com to ask me personally a question(because he saw my signature at bitcointalk and he didn't have an account here)].

How can I be more straightforward than this? I won't fuel his ambition to make my name dirty and put the blame on me(weak attempt dude).
I've been completely honest in my community and in the larger Bitcoin community and have zero interest in ruining my reputation.
Z3Moons, you saw my name, you saw my involvement, is this a typical scammer behaviour? In all fairness, not saying Deadgiveaway is a scammer, just un unexperienced guy who had the money at the time but didn't know how to do manage the site. My regret is that I should've looked for somebody less anonymous and more experienced, it appears that my gut isn't always right(lesson: learned).

I really don't like drama and conflict, but I want to clear my name.
Also, this:
Hi, I'm the admin you hired and I haven't made a single satoshi either. In fact, I dug to the depths of my own money because I wanted it to succeed. Probably 14 BTC deep or more. How much of it went to the players?
You were never hired. You bought the site with 12 BTC(around $1.5k at the time) and giving me 50% of future profits(which were 0). Then invested the rest in the site(of the top of my head under $500). Those funds weren't enough to cover the promotions you added and I asked you a number of times if there is enough to sustain the freerolls.

I don't want to blame you or anything, I think you were just in over your head(yeah, I didn't turn 180 degreese like you and started talking crap).

Now, if we could harness all the energy spent in this thread and do something good with it, we would all be happier. Don't you think?
I'd be willing to do some refunds out of my own pocket, to cover his mistakes.

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January 15, 2014, 11:27:00 PM
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but am not responsible for this situation.
I'd be willing to do some refunds out of my own pocket, to cover his mistakes.
So, a random guy scams people, and you're willing to cover for him? How nice of you.

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January 15, 2014, 11:32:34 PM
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I do have moral guilt about it, because this site has all it needs to succeed but needed a better manager and proper funding. Sadly I didn't find the right guy for it.

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January 15, 2014, 11:44:32 PM
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It is really a shame that this website has been managed so poorly.  One thing should be made clear though - Players deposited BTC on your site.  Where are these funds?  How in the world do you take someone's BTC that isn't yours and use it for something it was not intended for?  These players aren't investing in your site.  They pay you a rake, and they should sleep well at night knowing that their deposits are safe.  Under NO circumstances should player funds be used for anything except PLAYER WITHDRAWALS.

It really does not matter that you fell on financial hardship.  Somebody is knowingly stealing BTC from players here.  If you can't afford to operate your site, then you shut it down and refund your players.  It's really very cut and dry.  

You are a disgrace to BTC poker.  You hurt the reputation of the good guys and the overall faith in bitcoin transactions.

Wise up.

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January 16, 2014, 01:35:05 AM
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Kouye, I would have said the same thing- in the most sarcastic way possible "how nice of you" cyrus...
Even though, admin has been completely transparent in all this crap cyrus is saying "he wants to be anonymous" but Admin has been plenty transparent since this got serious the past 2 days while you did "whatever" in Pm's and ignoring people for the most part.
When we made the deal, he wanted to remain anonymous. I respected that. Problems with that too? Would it been better if I released info on him and mentioning our agreement prior to this? I only respected the agreement.
Cyrus you didn't even really want to talk until admin shows up and called you out.
I was talking in here, replying, before he showed up.
I can honestly say that admin seems to be accountable more then you have, more willing to share, more willing to speak up. I'm looking at his actions here and they are commendable, more then your own cyrus. He beat you to that one. Sorry.
By this you mean more willing to point a finger or two in my direction.

1. I just want to note, the point of brinigng up his investment - at least for me - was to show how much BITCOIN (not usd) was invested into the website. The point of this would be to show the flow of coins through bitspoker...if the website is bankrupt and why according to amounts. Amounts are NOT adding up nor making sense.

1 chip = .0001
Plus 14+ bitcoins from Deadgiveaway (Admin)
Plus whatever Cyrus supposedly contributed
Plus deposits from users (me being a multi time depositor and i know of many others)

=  a lot of bitcoin flowing around on a website with a very very very small community for less then a year? Let's not confused two issues here, one being the bitcoin and poker chips being used vs any money that "might have" been joobed away from your admins investment. Two separate issues.
12 out of 14 were the money for the site, money that has been sent to me.
The rest of the funds went into promotions(freerolls, giveaways, etc) and development(some work on the affiliate system, the transaction history page and the avatar, the latter being paid by me). Any other development work was done by me.
Funds ran out when freerolls and guaranteeds weren't funded anymore and players winning freerolls or winning chips from freeroll players made a withdraw. Again, this was a term of the agreement that he broke.

2. If you have no reservations with transferring the domain name due to deads payments to you, you still have the opportunity to do that. I mean, he did pay you. Him giving you money and babysitting your chat room does not sound like 50/50 to me. It sounds like you hired him as an employee but instead he gave you a paycheck. Are you willing to transfer that domain name?
No reservation. I'd be glad if this story has a happy ending and am trying to help with that. But please refrain from saying he "babysitted my chatroom", as I made clear the terms of our deal and his quality in BitsPoker. He paid me with 12 BTC and half of the future profit. I repeated myself again because you somehow didn't understand.

3. Your pushing blame again on your admin, and I hate that when people are representing a business they started and grew. It speaks for itself and you are still doing it. Just because you give someone a responsibility does not mean you don't have one yourself to check on your own product - which you have clearly neglected for months.
I see that you only blame me, this is getting curious Smiley. But nonetheless, I did start BitsPoker and when I realised the project needed more funding and someone with more experience I decided to sell it. Sold it to the wrong guy apparently. My bad.
But don't say that I've been neglecting it, who do you think made the improvements on the website, in the client and so on? Just appeared out of nowhere?

4. Cyrus, if you are willing...Please post the blockchains for every single deposit or contribution that you are mentioning. I've seen a few numbers i think, the most recent one being a .35 deposit "recently" - blockchain it or it never happened. Let's be transparent here. Isn't that what the blockchain was intended for anyway? Anymoney flowing into the site would also have to "flow out of the site" in order for it to be used for these extra costs. Blockchain it.
A 0.35 was the total of my recent contribution for compensating freeroll chips(won't repeat the agreement again, I've done it enough).
Blockchain.info for 0.25 of it here.

5. Cyrus you don't impress me and I don't trust you. You contradict yourself. Your absence invalidates you. Your push of blame around the table makes you look shady. When you spend the entire time pushing blame on to this guy then say "i dont want to blame you or anything" you literally sound like you have no clue what you are doing yourself, nor how to manage a situation as a business man in a situation which as spun out of control.
I don't want to impress you, neither want to gain your trust. But I did reply kindly to your questions. Is this shady behaviour?
As for the pushing the blame. I only stated facts. When I said, speaking of Deadgiveaway, "I don't want to blame you or anything, I think you were just in over your head", was merely saying that I feel sorry this happened the way it did and that I don't think he's a bad guy. If that was too contradicting with or without context I'm sorry, but don't twist my words please.

I wouldn't mind a refund for all of my bitcoins ever deposited.
Ok, give me an address.

I never made a withdraw never got there. My last withdraw I gave away most of my coins, transfered some to needy players....I gave some away on IRC to players who would sign up and deposit.
A bit contradicting.
I was also playng with unsupervised multi cheater accounts - and apparently admin. Not a legit poker game I invested it sounds like.
From what I know, he did took action on a number of multi-accounters. I personally haven't played much on BitsPoker, from principle.

Too bad my entire history is somehow washed from the "history" on the accounts menu. I have my own history from coinbase that shows 1 more deposit then recorded on your site.
The transaction history page only shows transactions happened after the date the page has been added. Maybe that deposit was older, but could be a bug on the page.

I think everyone should start posting their blockchains.

Cyrus especially you. If you want anyone to take this seriously, and maybe you are being sincere and just completely too inexperience to know how to handle it, post the blockchains show where the money is going and went. Back it up with the ledger. Perhaps you are telling the truth and just not very good at public relations or interpersonal communications processes. Either way....block chains would be nice. I heard someone mention a transfer to Satoshi Dice. I've looked at so many players blockchains I cant even think straight right now.

But one thing i do know, is I trusted bitspoker with money and so did many people, and Cyrus neglected it while holding his name on the software, the website, and everything having to do with bitspoker was in the name of CYRUS - yet when shit hits the fan it's someone elses fault and people have to play wheres waldo to find cyrus on some unrelated bitcointalk forum - while all the players are hurting in the website chatbox, the website email (which obviously you use) and the website official forums GAB. You can't blame anyone but yourself for that. It makes no sense and you can't convince me that is OK behavior.
Should have transferred the domain to him after the transaction and all this would have been different. Just out of curiosity, would you still be blaming me if that were the case?
Domain transfer wasn't discussed, but I don't think he would have wanted to have his name all over things as he wanted to remain anonymous. And he still is anonymous. Do you happen to know who is Deadgiveaway? But I do appreciate the effort to dig up info on me, I have no problem with that, as I was the one that put it online. But somehow I'm still shady in comparison to him.
I'll look and post some more blockchain.info links.

I can't be more straightforward than this. A talk on Skype is still possible, would be interesting to see if Deadgiveaway talked to people privately about me behind my back Smiley
As said before, if this energy can be directed towards something more positive, like rebuilding, there would be a silver lining.
Maybe half of what is written right now is done for another reason(maybe I'm paranoid, maybe not)

Deadgiveaway owes me the money I've been putting into BitsPoker after the acquisition. Forgot to mention that, not that I hope to see it again.

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January 16, 2014, 01:58:37 AM
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 Well at least this thread is getting your attention now. We kind of need both parties involved here to clear the air for the players. Although I'm not sure any amount of trust with the site can be rebuilt.
 Someone should probably make an announcement on site to the players that are still there.
 As far as anything else is concerned, I feel like I've wasted enough time. My understanding of what has transpired is only slightly more clear, and I'm just cutting my losses and in the future be a lot less trusting of handing over coins.

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Well at least this thread is getting your attention now. We kind of need both parties involved here to clear the air for the players. Although I'm not sure any amount of trust with the site can be rebuilt.
 Someone should probably make an announcement on site to the players that are still there.
 As far as anything else is concerned, I feel like I've wasted enough time. My understanding of what has transpired is only slightly more clear, and I'm just cutting my losses and in the future be a lot less trusting of handing over coins.


I'm very sorry this turned out this way. I'll be sure to be more careful in picking people to do business with. As I said, I don't have anything personal with the guy, but he was in over his head(not saying I was any wiser, that's the reason I sold it).

LE: Added an announcement on the website.

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January 16, 2014, 02:47:45 AM
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Sent.

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January 16, 2014, 03:01:46 AM
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Ok, well if you admit I paid that much and are willing to transfer the domain, how about will you be willing just to give my investment money back and you keep the site?
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January 16, 2014, 03:08:09 AM
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None of my business into this mess, but I just couldn't help myself asking about the organization of the poker site. I mean, was it opened by a private person and was it intended to be run by private person/s? If this was the case and if successful, it would've come under authorities radar pretty fast, imo (for taxation purposes). It's also a matter of liability if things go wrong (as it seems they did?). I mean, thinking of myself as a possible poker player, I'd be concerned with these facts:

- am I playing on a legit website?
- is the website and software used in any way audited by some sort of an official agency so to be considered safe and fair?

I've become kind of obsessed with organization form for whatever enterprise since the bitcoin-24 disaster. A well intention-ed young man messed things up really bad simply because he tried to operate things as a private person.  


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January 16, 2014, 03:09:58 AM
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omg this smells so fishy...

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