Ethan “Rampage” Yau will “at some point” study who’s reliable, however not at the present time, apparently. The favored poker vlogger tweeted out his “Scammer of 2024” award recipient, and the winner is a bookie who allegedly owes him hundreds of {dollars}.
Neema Khazaie, an agent for Diamond Sportsbook, is supposedly refusing to pay out his winnings after willfully accepting deposits throughout a prolonged downswing.
Poker Vlogger Allegedly Scammed
Rampage, who went from low-stakes to enjoying in nosebleed video games on reveals reminiscent of Hustler On line casino Dwell inside months, claims Khazaie supplied “nice customer support” for 6-8 months whereas the vlogger misplaced “piles” of cash. That each one allegedly modified when the playing luck shifted the opposite manner.
The World Sequence of Poker (WSOP) bracelet winner claims he tried to make a withdrawal from his sports activities betting account on Oct. 7. However he was “met with some excuses.”
Khazaie’s refusal to ship him the requested cash was surprising to Yau, who seemingly accredited of how his agent had handled him as much as that time. However he continued to put bets and went on an upswing of round $30,000. The sportsbook, he wrote, then started to restrict his motion and categorized him as a “sharp,” somebody who has an edge betting on sports activities.
Sportsbooks usually ban or restrict the motion of sharps to forestall in opposition to dropping an excessive amount of cash to 1 buyer. However Rampage was, as he stated, down $600,000, so he was confused why one upswing that did not come near masking his losses would trigger the sportsbook to categorise him as a pointy.
He then guess $50,000 on Donald Trump to win the presidency at -220 odds, and Trump would go on to win the election over Kamala Harris in an Electoral School landslide. The high-stakes poker participant claims his account steadiness with Diamond Sportsbook had jumped to roughly $138,000 with $80,000 of it being his deposit.
Rampage stated he tried to withdraw the funds however by no means acquired his cash. He shared, and later deleted, textual content messages from Oct. 7 and eight through which Khazaie acknowledges his shopper is owed about $134,000.
The cash hadn’t been despatched as of Monday, however the agent despatched Yau a prolonged textual content message with some excuses, however did provide to ship him $30,000-$40,000 “inside just a few days.” Rampage then vowed to at some point study from his errors.
Yau’s had his ups and downs in poker and coping with alleged scammers. He went on an enormous downswing previous to the Hustler On line casino Dwell Million Greenback Recreation in Might, which triggered him to again out of enjoying. However he is additionally had loads of triumphs, together with successful a WSOP bracelet, cashing for over $2.8 million in dwell tournaments over the previous three years, and making the uncommon fast leap from low-stakes to high-stakes.
He even gained a Charity Sequence of Poker (CSOP) event final week in Las Vegas. Maybe his subsequent accomplishment shall be to chop the scammers out of his life.