José "Girah" Macedo, who used to be called the Portuguese poker prodigy, can't be having the time of his life at the moment. In June he was caught cheating in a leaderboard competition in which a sponsorship was up for grabs, and about 2 week ago he was caught cheating once again. This time, however, it was worse as he had tricked people into playing against "the extremely bad player sauro[...] Read more » José "Girah" Macedo to face legal action
Joined: Mar '08
Location: United Kingdom
Age: 46 (M)
Posts: 6714
I was always under the impression that if no one took action then fraud squad would/should, that is what this is, he should absolutely be put in jail, it is no different than breaking in to your home to steal money, he stole money, or as I look at it obtained money by deception..how can he not do time?
I agree with you B1gfoot, but since he has money he will probably just pay X amount to the people he tricked and/or the pokersite, I guess. That's how it works, money rules the world!! If pokerstars didn't take action against him then nothing would've happened to him, pretty sad...
Anyways he definetly deserves to lose a lot more than he earned doing that!
Joined: May '09
Location: India
Age: 39 (M)
Posts: 4873
This is more like it now they will have to reveal the whole truth behind the scam, no way jose gonna let himself become the scapegoat for JM and haseeb. all of them are equally involved in this .
If pokerstars didn't take action against him then nothing would've happened to him, pretty sad...
than he earned doing that!
