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    PP Poker: Individuals running "clubs" on an app where they hold all the money -- what could go wrong? (Adnan Mohammad scam)

    PP Poker is an app which has been growing in popularity in 2018 (and now 2019).

    Here's the website for it: http://www.pppoker.net

    How does it work?

    In short, people start "clubs" on there, which act as virtual private games. The owner of each "club" handles the money deposited/withdrawn from the game, and it's basically a way to play online poker in the US, even if you don't want to deal with ACR/Bovada/whatever.

    The manager of the PPP club pays some sort of monthly fee to PPP, and then there's some split of the rake collected (not sure of the exact split percentages).

    This is totally illegal in the US, and people could go to prison if caught running a PPP club for real money, but it's no riskier than running an illegal brick-and-mortar home game.

    Would I ever consider running one? Fuck no.

    Of course, the big flaw is that the money is being held/handled by a third party you can't necessarily trust. And there's been a number of stories thus far of people being ripped off by managers of PPP clubs.

    According to a thread on 2+2, a pretty big ripoff has occurred on one of the PPP clubs.

    Adnan Mohammad, aka "NYPokerKing", a trustworthy-sounding screen name if I ever heard one, is accused of stealing over $100,000 from players on his PPP club.



    His club's gimmicky website can be found at http://pokerclub.ag

    The evidence in the 2+2 thread suggests that Adnan basically ran a ponzi scheme, pocketing all of the money on deposit, and then using new deposits to pay requested cashouts. Reportedly he would pay the most active rakers at the moment, figuring that they were the ones he wanted to keep most happy. However, even they were paid in a trickle. One person on 2+2 reported that it took 10 payouts just to get paid $3000!

    Two people were chronicled in the thread to have lost over $40k and $20k, respectively.

    Others chimed in, and apparently Adnan looks like he's not paying anyone unless new deposits come in, and then he forwards those to existing players, based upon their current rake generating activity.

    Adnan Mohammad is a fine gentleman who was convicted of grand larceny in 2013, but I'm sure it was all just a huge misunderstanding, and he's a salt-of-the-earth character.

    The writing was on the wall regarding Adnan Mohammad and his PPP club, as there was already a thread calling him out in April 2018. Why anyone continued to play there or trust this guy is beyond me.

    There was another PPP scandal based out of Houston last year, and I've heard of plenty of others.

    Best to stay off that entire app.

    In fact, even if your PPP club is being managed by someone solvent and trustworthy, there's still the matters of game security, which basically you have no reason at all to trust.

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    More villains!

    Pete Burrell aka "Peteystayfresh" apparently was Adnan's partner in this scam. He lives in Florida.

    He's said to work for Allegiant Airways. When his Facebook page was posted to 2+2, Pete abruptly deleted his Facebook, presumably because Pete was erroneously believed to be working for Spirit, and was hoping no one would realize the mistake.

    People on 2+2 researched Pete and found that his father was convicted of a number of felonies over the years.

    Courtney Hamilton aka "LiberalChick" lives in the Los Angeles area. She's appeared on Live at the Bike a few times. She's in her early 30s and pretty, but has an incredibly abrasive personality, and always seems to be crying victim that guys in poker are harassing her.

    I was surprised to see that Courtney was caught up in this mess, working for Adnan as an "agent" since at least December 2017. Courtney was made aware of the club being a scam back in April, but she continued promoting it until December. Some on 2+2 have reported that she's taken a flippant attitude with anyone who signed up through her (because they trusted her) who subsequently got scammed.

    She's also abandoned Twitter for the past 4 days.

    I actually had a Twitter battle with Courtney in July 2017. You can see a lot of it here, but her original tweet (a guessing game regarding a "male friend" who supposedly stopped talking to her after she rejected his sexual propositions) has snice been deleted. The argument had nothing to do with scams, but interestingly, not one social media white knight came to her defense, which was highly unexpected given that she's a pretty girl in poker. I figured that she had to be really insufferable for that to be the case.

    More recently, in October 2018, she got into a nasty Twitter fight with WSOP Main Event 4th place finisher Nic Manion, and got him suspended from Twitter. Laughably, in the midst of that fight where she was claiming victimhood once again, she was openly promoting Adnan's scam.

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    I feel bad for the victims, as they are being tricked all over again.

    Realizing that his carefully crafted image of a poker/pit game baller has been ruined, Adnan called up the main victims of this scam and attempted to make nice.

    Quote Originally Posted by DonkeyCopter
    I just got off the phone with Adnan. He will be paying those that were removed from their chips and cashout balances by Pokerclub.ag. He says he is getting the cash together now which could take up to 2 weeks.

    He wanted to pass along that Petey was not involved in any of the decision making surrounding this, Petey was just a referral agent for the club and had nothing to do with what happened. I believe the same goes for cortney.

    Adnan apologizes for the way this was handled, and will be contacting Joey and chase as well to make his own public statement.

    Adnan has sent me $911 of the $43,511 balance so far.

    I will update this thread on payment follow through.

    He’s already contacted at least one other person who is owed money.

    I will only be providing the facts of further interactions I have with adnan.
    Source: https://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/s...&postcount=281


    Quote Originally Posted by philly2230
    Update. This is Slizzle. I like DonkeyCopter spoke to Adnan personally and he is making this right. He just sent me $1000 in good faith and will clear the remaining balance in next couple weeks. Is sending another 2,000 by Tuesday. I will keep you posted.

    He also asked me to make it a point to mention that Petey was not involved in running anything and just plays for fun and promoted for a short time.

    Thank you for everyone help in putting this in spotlight.
    Source: https://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/s...&postcount=296


    Good luck to these guys, but I doubt this is going to happen. How is he going to get the $100k+ he probably owes? From the money tree?

    He's buying time. If he wasn't, he would have sent far more than a laughable $911, which was probably every penny he had to his name at the moment.

    Oddly enough, Adnan seems to be telling them to ask people to lay off Pete and Courtney. I'm assuming that both are giving him heat about this, especially Pete who is now worried about his airline job.

    Regarding Pete and Courtney, they deserve no sympathy. The payout issues were made known to them back in April, and they continued promoting it. They are also reading the thread yet refusing to make any public statements about it.

    I'm guessing the "You'll get paid in 2 weeks" promise was done in order to induce positive public statements from you and other major creditors, and they'll get some excuse/stall in 2 weeks regarding why nobody's been paid.

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    guessing the amount of dick to ride in the LA area to get buyins for those LATB games has dried up so she's had to go the shady route...

    im shocked, SHOCKED I SAY, that this chick has an entitle attitude about all of this...

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