I just read the AIM messages. Wow. Jose Macedo comes across like a total sociopath, worried only about losing his sponsorship and the damage to his reputation and not at all remorseful. He kept lying up until the end and is still claiming his "friend" was the one playing. This is probably just the tip of the iceberg for this guy's scams. What a POS.

This is in no way a judgement or insult or whatever... but is it within the realm of possibility that JM and DIH are a couple and Girah was to be their Portugal man servant and they were to all 3 live in paradise and make millions of dollars and this elaborate cover up attempt was in fact an attempt to keep this plan in tact?

It may sound like I am being funny or insulting or whatever, but honestly, thats not my intention, this is as good a conspiracy theory as most others and I think it is in the realm of possibility and would explain a whole bunch.

Shit's sick how poor people are handling it involved. Haseeb is 100% involved in shady shit and threatened they wouldn't get paid if they let his involvement go public. Most of them didn't want to mention his involvement. Someone comes out and actually posts his involvement when the others didn't. One of them is not Haseeb's involvement went down. I can confirm it is 100% how shit went down and some of the players who got scammed didn't want it to come forward so they could get paid.

I don't know why people consistently trust scammers after they've been scammed.

Alright, I've just woken up and have finally gotten a few hours sleep after all of this. Looking back on the blog post I wrote last night, I really wish I had slept on it rather than writing it all in one go. It came out really angry, especially with everything having come down on me all at once and feeling really overwhelmed and stressed out. That being said, I'm going to do my best to reply to some of the points stated here by you guys.

1. The line "what happened is between me, Jose, etc." was obviously a very poorly worded phrase, and I've taken it out. What I meant was that the entire matter before it went public was between us, the scammed, jose, etc., because we all had very important vested interests in how it came to light. Jungle and I had a lot of money involved in this situation, the scammed of course had their reparations to be sorted out, and so what I meant to say that I didn't think it was fair to say that for trying to hold this thing from going public that I was being disingenuous. What I meant was obviously NOT that Jose scamming people is not something the public should know about, nor my playing on his account, etc.

2. Yes, the stake and debt were separate. There was a 40k debt to Jose while he was in makeup due to the housing. Jose definitely had his own money, we know this for a fact. We have no proof of millions, but we know that he had some.

3. There was no talk whatsoever of me bribing anybody 30k to hold back the story. The 30k was reparations to be paid to the victims BY JOSE. I was not going to pay that. I promised to help pay them out for their initial losses by the scam, and that was it. I was not involved in anything more, but when they told us (contradicting their earlier promises) that they were going to include our names when they went public, I told them then we'd prefer if Jose paid them out himself instead of us bank wiring them money (once it became clear he was able to pay out of his Lock account). But at no point did I take away the promise that I'd pay them out if Jose reneged on his payment.

4. I only played on Jose's account once. Period. If you want details on who Jose scammed and how much, ask the victims involved and they'll give you the breakdown, I asked them simply for one total number and one bank account to send to.

5. We were not going to take his action in these 25/50 give back 1bb/100 matches, in fact we strongly discouraged them because we thought they were ridiculous. AFAIK he never took one except against bigguylegend, who refused to play him after a few sessions because he thought Jose was very good.

6. I am not in debt to anyone, and the stake was split between me and Jungle 50/50. Ashton was there when we both decided to stake Jose, so he may be able to attest to that.

7. I changed my name from "ipokeder" to "DogIsHead" because I turned 18 and started playing with accounts in my own name since I could have my own bank account, etc. I vaguely recall the incident in question where I got coaching from MDMA without telling him who I was when I knew he otherwise wouldn't accept me because we argued on 2p2 all the time. Honestly I find it kind of odd that this is being brought up as a charge against me for paying some guy who doesn't like me for coaching back when I was 18? But okay.

8. There were many periods over which I had more or less involvement with Jose, especially while I was moving around and around Black Friday, because we were so busy dealing with other ****. Most of it was at the start.

9. Not sure who's saying I can't pay my debts or why. I am not in debt. It would be hard to put up the cash to stake people if I were in debt.

10. The more I am reading about the evidence against Girah's alleged millions won and previous accounts, I am honestly starting to question all of it. But I have no idea what to think of it or where to begin doubting things. I do remember him showing me lots of HH's that he played against GreeceP (Isildur) at 25/50 because he was asking me about doing an instructional video on one of his early blogs, and I told him doing one on an Isildur HH would be a really good idea. I still don't know what to think.

11. I was pretty angry in my blog post, and for that I apologize. It wasn't a very level-headed way to do it, but I had just gotten to my place in London and had been writing for 3-4 hours straight to get all of that out without any sleep. I wish I could re-write it more sensibly, but the only right thing to do is let it stand as is. But I don't think that I have been narcissistic to include the details that I did about Jose looking up to me and praising my writing, etc. - I wanted to portray with leaving out as few details as possible our relationship, and I think the fact that he obviously thought a lot of me was important to understanding it. I'm sorry if you guys think I was stroking my own ego, but that wasn't what it was about. I just tried my best to portray the full story as best I could.

Any more questions that you guys have I'll try to answer if they're stated clearly.

Haseeb

Martha, I take it you have been following this all along just like I have... What is your opinion on what exactly happened with all parties involved?

Wanted to add that, from what I have read on the PPP stuff, I think Girah's bankroll and online success was greatly exaggerated. Not sure whether or not the people hyping Girah on 2+2 knew this and were deliberately creating the prodigy persona or were misled by Girah's exaggerations. I don't know enough about the PPP stuff. Did anyone here follow that closely? Was a possibly faked HEM the only evidence that the kid ran it up to millions?