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PokerGuru:

I have been playing internet poker since round about 1999. I started out on paradise poker and have played most every site out there at some point or another.
This past week something happened to me that has never happened before...a poker site up and literally stole 11,000$ dollars from me.

here's the situation. My playername on pokerhost is Water. I played there due to the shiny little pamphlet I got in teh mail and what seemed like a good incentive to buy in. I played mostly 40/80 HU and some 30/60 HU.
Pokerhost manager Joey would actually call me at my house and set up high stakes 40/80 for me to play.
During the course of my play I probably cashed out over 28k or so. These cash outs would require up to 7 or 8 days to process, I'd have to be on the phone with them at least twice a week.
I play on pokerstars, party, Pacific, UB, America's Card Room and a slew of others...mostly 15/30 some 30/60 and higher.

I borrowed 2.6k from a friend of mine on ACR, he simply clicked the 'transfer between players' button and sent me 2.6 from his account to my own.
I planned to pay him back on pokerhost site...when i went to try to transfer him money on pokerhost it was rejected, no reason given, just kept poppign back into my account.
so i had my friend sit at a NL HU(heads up) table and I lost two hands to him for 2.6k.
At this point Pokerhost seized both of our accounts and declared that we were cheating the site. They not only took the 2.6 k I'd just given my friend but the remaining 11k in my accoutn as well.

Are you kidding me?? on any other site I can click a transfer button, ship any amount of chips to another account. They accussed me of 'chip dumping' said it was in violation of their policy and that my account and money was forfeit.
Get this when i called them..they said that they DID NOT BENEFIT FROM MAKIGN THIS MOVE..when i questioned that they said ' pokerhost in no way benefits from this, we will be dispersing your money amongst the players you won it from
are you friggen kidding me?? not only are you seizing my money but you're giving it backto the people i won from?? unreal. I guess getting to rake 11k in free money all over again doesn't benefit you clowns at all eh?
in no way shape or form did i cheat those players in winning their money, never sat with my friend and colluded, no team play nothing..just 2 hands at a HU NL table to pay him back the money i owed him from another site.
the only thing i'm guilty of is trying to pay back my friend 2.6k that at ANY OTHER SITE YOU CAN JUST PRESS A TRANSFER BUTTON AND IT"S DONE IN under 1 minute!
Joey and Gino and pokerhost (their managers) are complete scams, i've never been so poorly treated by any site in my entire life.

I have no recourse it would appear..i sent them a letter from my lawyer...when i asked to speak to their boss..they laughed and said 'yeah right,only 12 people in the world know who he is'

I now have 11,000 reasons to make sure that YOU do not go to their site and give them your money. Don't trust these guys with your money...EVER.

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CrackerZack:

So you chipdumped, which is cheating and fraud, and are shocked when they seized your account? Brilliant.

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srawski:

I would like to buy the rights to this exciting story(to make a tv movie) for 11k. Please let me know if we have a deal.
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scooper:

great reply...I for one am glad he posted this information.

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dentcat:

I thought chip dumping only mattered (frowned upon) in tournaments?
[nq:1]So you chipdumped, which is cheating and fraud, and are shocked when they seized your account? Brilliant.[/nq]
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Zabulus:

Neverheard of them.. Guess theres good reason not to have
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Death Rowe:

thanks for the post, rgp members need to stick together

since i am a member of that site i am going to email them and demand a cut of your money. j/k, but i am going to ask them about this
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smellmuth:

[nq:1]So you chipdumped, which is cheating and fraud, and are shocked when they seized your account? Brilliant.[/nq]
i dont understand how this is an example of cheating OR fraud... please explain.
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ecr72:

You may want to get your money off that site before asking them anything.
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NTW:

This sounds more than odd..are you telling use the whole story? It sure doesn't seem like it.
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