HQ Trivia players claiming they are not getting their winnings

[Shizzmoney]

For months, players in HQ Trivia, a trivia app that offers cash prizes, say they have been having issues getting their money.

HQ Trivia is basically Bar Trivia: The App. Twice a day, every day, there’s a live trivia show, hosted on the app, that has a pool of cash that goes out to the winners. HQ Trivia players also have to deal with a rising epidemic of cheating, with users joining Discord servers to discuss answers with other players, or even writing bots that will pick the correct answers. The prevalence of cheating first became clear last March when one of the final players in a $25,000 “winner takes all” game was booted for cheating.

Cheating isn’t the only rampant problem in HQ, though. Since at least October of last year, players have been having problems cashing out their winnings. HQ allows you to cash out your winnings to PayPal. There used to be a $20 limit, but that was removed early last year, meaning theoretically players can cash out at any time. A lot of players have been saying that their cash out button is still grayed out, meaning they can’t tap it and receive their winnings.

https://kotaku.com/hq-trivia-doesnt-...ium=Socialflow

[Shizzmoney]

Looks like Jeopardy savant Alex Jacob got caught up in this:

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[Dan Druff]

PFA Radio covered this in January also, after Shizzmoney brought it to my attention: https://pokerfraudalert.com/forum/sh...Years-From-Now (4:40:00 mark)

[1marley1]

PFA Radio covered this in January also, after Shizzmoney brought it to my attention: https://pokerfraudalert.com/forum/sh...Years-From-Now (4:40:00 mark)

Obv he cheated and that’s why they won’t pay him. And your take was completely wrong on radio Druff. Did you wish to issue a correction?

[Dan Druff]

PFA Radio covered this in January also, after Shizzmoney brought it to my attention: https://pokerfraudalert.com/forum/sh...Years-From-Now (4:40:00 mark)

Obv he cheated and that’s why they won’t pay him. And your take was completely wrong on radio Druff. Did you wish to issue a correction?

What correction needs to be issued?

[1marley1]

Obv he cheated and that’s why they won’t pay him. And your take was completely wrong on radio Druff. Did you wish to issue a correction?

What correction needs to be issued?

There is no ‘consideration’ for one... your whole premise was this game is like online poker. You said regarding HQ, ‘people buy into it, then there’s a prize pool.’ This is completely wrong. There is no buy-in and the prize is set before play. Any money spent on extra lives and other ads one are not included or added to the prize. It’s a lot more like the pfa free roll. There is no entry fee to play and win HQ trivia.

You then ask, how will one know if opponents are googling or using bots? But HQ say that googling and using bots is allowed and that if you can do that and answer by yourself in 10 seconds then good for you.

Then you ask what if they play with group of friends? But, this is also expressly allowed. The rules do say that if you use the help of more than 10 people then you’re DQ’d. Apparently some unscrupulous players have been found using some sort of server where they’re using the crowd to somehow help win. Other players have been DQ’d for this offense.

It also says give us 90 days to make sure you didn’t cheat at our free game before we pay you $20K (anything over $1000 gets reviewed). After only 20 days, Alex thinks he will never get paid even tho HQ has made no comment and has paid out $6,000,000 to 99% of cash-out requests. Guilty conscience?



Now stop reading this bullshit and go win the Main!!!