Mariano Poker and other Youtube fraudsters

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It is time to expose charlatan Youtubers that are parading around the poker community as players of high-level skill and sportmanship when in reality they are fraudsters and thieves

Lets talk about Mariano. This is some young schmuck who made a name for himself filming himself grinding $1-$2 games at his local casinos. I'm not talking about some GTO wizard playing 24 tables at a time back in the Fult Tilt days. In over 2 decades of modern day poker, I cannot remember a single player online or otherwise (with maybe the exception of Chris MoneyMaker - who was mainly a tournament player and hit the lotto by winning the WSOP) that have ever skyrocketed from $1-2 and $2-$5 NL Hold'em games to $100,000+ buy-in games in the blink of an eye. Any professional player understands that the cardinal rule of the game is bankroll management, and nobody who is playing $1-$2 poker to build-up a bankroll is suddenly going to just risk it all by taking their entire net worth and sitting at a nosebleed game. Today, Mariano is punting off $250,000+ cash pots like he is Guy Laliberte. No major tournament wins, didn't win the lottery, his family isn't rich and he isn't the CEO of a Fortune 500 company. So where did this poker prodigy get all this money from so quickly?

The reality is that Mariano and Rampage Poker hooked up with Degen gambler Johnny "Vibes" Moreno alongside several other less prominent Youtube poker vloggers and they bilked the shit out of thousands of people online using the ClubGG app. Rampage won an online tournament for $160,000 and streamed it, resulting in a tsunami of new subscribers to his Youtube channel. Rampage, Mariano, Youtube Vloggers, and other social media personalities with large online followings began promoting the underground club run on the unregulated poker app. Basically, they all created an unregulated virtual poker room that collects rake from dozens of poker tables that run 24 hours a day. They even have a 24/7 support channel deposit/withdraw money.

All of these scumbags had thousands of people depositing money to play poker on this app. They were all using player funds to finance their gambling expenditures, travel expenses, fine dining and luxury item purchases. The business model is a ponzi scheme. Rampage, Mariano, Johnny Vibes, Rampage's girlfriend, essentially an entire clique and cabal running a scam poker operation. When players would request payouts, these guys would issue pay-outs over the span of days in multiple payments (structuring) with money from new depositors, or a ponzi scheme. In other words, they are gambling and living the high-life with other people's money most of the time.

The scheme gets even worse because all off these Mf'ers are running massive cheat rings on the app. Multi-accounting is prevalent on almost every table, or that you will have a 6 handed table and two of the accounts being legitimate players while the other 4 accounts seated at the table are operated by 1 or 2 individuals. Countless players got stiffed on payouts, and many of those stories were published on 2+2 before miraculously being bleached from the forum.

These guys I mentioned aren't the only ones who have done this. Almost every single Youtube poker vlogger has gotten involved in this scam and have been getting away with it for years. Anything to support the highlife and endless gambling. Scumbags.

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It is time to expose charlatan Youtubers that are parading around the poker community as players of high-level skill and sportmanship when in reality they are fraudsters and thieves

Lets talk about Mariano. This is some young schmuck who made a name for himself filming himself grinding $1-$2 games at his local casinos. I'm not talking about some GTO wizard playing 24 tables at a time back in the Fult Tilt days. In over 2 decades of modern day poker, I cannot remember a single player online or otherwise (with maybe the exception of Chris MoneyMaker - who was mainly a tournament player and hit the lotto by winning the WSOP) that have ever skyrocketed from $1-2 and $2-$5 NL Hold'em games to $100,000+ buy-in games in the blink of an eye. Any professional player understands that the cardinal rule of the game is bankroll management, and nobody who is playing $1-$2 poker to build-up a bankroll is suddenly going to just risk it all by taking their entire net worth and sitting at a nosebleed game. Today, Mariano is punting off $250,000+ cash pots like he is Guy Laliberte. No major tournament wins, didn't win the lottery, his family isn't rich and he isn't the CEO of a Fortune 500 company. So where did this poker prodigy get all this money from so quickly?

The reality is that Mariano and Rampage Poker hooked up with Degen gambler Johnny "Vibes" Moreno alongside several other less prominent Youtube poker vloggers and they bilked the shit out of thousands of people online using the ClubGG app. Rampage won an online tournament for $160,000 and streamed it, resulting in a tsunami of new subscribers to his Youtube channel. Rampage, Mariano, Youtube Vloggers, and other social media personalities with large online followings began promoting the underground club run on the unregulated poker app. Basically, they all created an unregulated virtual poker room that collects rake from dozens of poker tables that run 24 hours a day. They even have a 24/7 support channel deposit/withdraw money.

All of these scumbags had thousands of people depositing money to play poker on this app. They were all using player funds to finance their gambling expenditures, travel expenses, fine dining and luxury item purchases. The business model is a ponzi scheme. Rampage, Mariano, Johnny Vibes, Rampage's girlfriend, essentially an entire clique and cabal running a scam poker operation. When players would request payouts, these guys would issue pay-outs over the span of days in multiple payments (structuring) with money from new depositors, or a ponzi scheme. In other words, they are gambling and living the high-life with other people's money most of the time.

The scheme gets even worse because all off these Mf'ers are running massive cheat rings on the app. Multi-accounting is prevalent on almost every table, or that you will have a 6 handed table and two of the accounts being legitimate players while the other 4 accounts seated at the table are operated by 1 or 2 individuals. Countless players got stiffed on payouts, and many of those stories were published on 2+2 before miraculously being bleached from the forum.

These guys I mentioned aren't the only ones who have done this. Almost every single Youtube poker vlogger has gotten involved in this scam and have been getting away with it for years. Anything to support the highlife and endless gambling. Scumbags.

Salty much? You sound like the fox and the grapes fable dude. Ya know players get backers at times. I even had offers in the past and turned it down I didn’t wanna owe shit to anybody.

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It is time to expose charlatan Youtubers that are parading around the poker community as players of high-level skill and sportmanship when in reality they are fraudsters and thieves

Lets talk about Mariano. This is some young schmuck who made a name for himself filming himself grinding $1-$2 games at his local casinos. I'm not talking about some GTO wizard playing 24 tables at a time back in the Fult Tilt days. In over 2 decades of modern day poker, I cannot remember a single player online or otherwise (with maybe the exception of Chris MoneyMaker - who was mainly a tournament player and hit the lotto by winning the WSOP) that have ever skyrocketed from $1-2 and $2-$5 NL Hold'em games to $100,000+ buy-in games in the blink of an eye. Any professional player understands that the cardinal rule of the game is bankroll management, and nobody who is playing $1-$2 poker to build-up a bankroll is suddenly going to just risk it all by taking their entire net worth and sitting at a nosebleed game. Today, Mariano is punting off $250,000+ cash pots like he is Guy Laliberte. No major tournament wins, didn't win the lottery, his family isn't rich and he isn't the CEO of a Fortune 500 company. So where did this poker prodigy get all this money from so quickly?

The reality is that Mariano and Rampage Poker hooked up with Degen gambler Johnny "Vibes" Moreno alongside several other less prominent Youtube poker vloggers and they bilked the shit out of thousands of people online using the ClubGG app. Rampage won an online tournament for $160,000 and streamed it, resulting in a tsunami of new subscribers to his Youtube channel. Rampage, Mariano, Youtube Vloggers, and other social media personalities with large online followings began promoting the underground club run on the unregulated poker app. Basically, they all created an unregulated virtual poker room that collects rake from dozens of poker tables that run 24 hours a day. They even have a 24/7 support channel deposit/withdraw money.

All of these scumbags had thousands of people depositing money to play poker on this app. They were all using player funds to finance their gambling expenditures, travel expenses, fine dining and luxury item purchases. The business model is a ponzi scheme. Rampage, Mariano, Johnny Vibes, Rampage's girlfriend, essentially an entire clique and cabal running a scam poker operation. When players would request payouts, these guys would issue pay-outs over the span of days in multiple payments (structuring) with money from new depositors, or a ponzi scheme. In other words, they are gambling and living the high-life with other people's money most of the time.

The scheme gets even worse because all off these Mf'ers are running massive cheat rings on the app. Multi-accounting is prevalent on almost every table, or that you will have a 6 handed table and two of the accounts being legitimate players while the other 4 accounts seated at the table are operated by 1 or 2 individuals. Countless players got stiffed on payouts, and many of those stories were published on 2+2 before miraculously being bleached from the forum.

These guys I mentioned aren't the only ones who have done this. Almost every single Youtube poker vlogger has gotten involved in this scam and have been getting away with it for years. Anything to support the highlife and endless gambling. Scumbags.

I agree with all of this criticism - they are this generations private game hosts.

Have you ever known a private game host whose operation was big enough to make good money? All of them are shitty people. All of them. Maybe not at the beginning of their venture - but once they are "in it", they are all fucked up, morally corrupt assholes. They do favors for degenerate criminals (playing on credit, etc) - and are surrounded by the dredges of society, constantly. And they need to "play the part" - which equates to acting, dressing, and gambling in a way that impresses the group of degenerates that they feed off of. They set the tone for how the group behaves, and profit off of the ensuing chaos.

All of this seems very similar to the paths of the Vloggers you mention, although I admittedly only see the occasional drama they are involved in at this point.

[FNdonkey]

It is time to expose charlatan Youtubers that are parading around the poker community as players of high-level skill and sportmanship when in reality they are fraudsters and thieves

Lets talk about Mariano. This is some young schmuck who made a name for himself filming himself grinding $1-$2 games at his local casinos. I'm not talking about some GTO wizard playing 24 tables at a time back in the Fult Tilt days. In over 2 decades of modern day poker, I cannot remember a single player online or otherwise (with maybe the exception of Chris MoneyMaker - who was mainly a tournament player and hit the lotto by winning the WSOP) that have ever skyrocketed from $1-2 and $2-$5 NL Hold'em games to $100,000+ buy-in games in the blink of an eye. Any professional player understands that the cardinal rule of the game is bankroll management, and nobody who is playing $1-$2 poker to build-up a bankroll is suddenly going to just risk it all by taking their entire net worth and sitting at a nosebleed game. Today, Mariano is punting off $250,000+ cash pots like he is Guy Laliberte. No major tournament wins, didn't win the lottery, his family isn't rich and he isn't the CEO of a Fortune 500 company. So where did this poker prodigy get all this money from so quickly?

The reality is that Mariano and Rampage Poker hooked up with Degen gambler Johnny "Vibes" Moreno alongside several other less prominent Youtube poker vloggers and they bilked the shit out of thousands of people online using the ClubGG app. Rampage won an online tournament for $160,000 and streamed it, resulting in a tsunami of new subscribers to his Youtube channel. Rampage, Mariano, Youtube Vloggers, and other social media personalities with large online followings began promoting the underground club run on the unregulated poker app. Basically, they all created an unregulated virtual poker room that collects rake from dozens of poker tables that run 24 hours a day. They even have a 24/7 support channel deposit/withdraw money.

All of these scumbags had thousands of people depositing money to play poker on this app. They were all using player funds to finance their gambling expenditures, travel expenses, fine dining and luxury item purchases. The business model is a ponzi scheme. Rampage, Mariano, Johnny Vibes, Rampage's girlfriend, essentially an entire clique and cabal running a scam poker operation. When players would request payouts, these guys would issue pay-outs over the span of days in multiple payments (structuring) with money from new depositors, or a ponzi scheme. In other words, they are gambling and living the high-life with other people's money most of the time.

The scheme gets even worse because all off these Mf'ers are running massive cheat rings on the app. Multi-accounting is prevalent on almost every table, or that you will have a 6 handed table and two of the accounts being legitimate players while the other 4 accounts seated at the table are operated by 1 or 2 individuals. Countless players got stiffed on payouts, and many of those stories were published on 2+2 before miraculously being bleached from the forum.

These guys I mentioned aren't the only ones who have done this. Almost every single Youtube poker vlogger has gotten involved in this scam and have been getting away with it for years. Anything to support the highlife and endless gambling. Scumbags.

I agree with all of this criticism - they are this generations private game hosts.

Have you ever known a private game host whose operation was big enough to make good money? All of them are shitty people. All of them. Maybe not at the beginning of their venture - but once they are "in it", they are all fucked up, morally corrupt assholes. They do favors for degenerate criminals (playing on credit, etc) - and are surrounded by the dredges of society, constantly. And they need to "play the part" - which equates to acting, dressing, and gambling in a way that impresses the group of degenerates that they feed off of. They set the tone for how the group behaves, and profit off of the ensuing chaos.

All of this seems very similar to the paths of the Vloggers you mention, although I admittedly only see the occasional drama they are involved in at this point.

As the the local game runner / "sports speculation assistant" I'm deeply offended by your mostly accurate statement lol. There are legit casino games within 20 minutes of me and most of my people would rather play here. At any given time I have 7 millionaires setting at the table, I always laugh that it's a good day when I've had to loan 2 or 3 of them money. I think anyone HERE would tell you I run the most legit game around and I'm the fairest guy in the country. I do have to be careful away from the game or I'm blowing thousands a day with them gambling above my pay grade.