Days after José “Girah” Macedo took down the Lock Poker Challenge he was disqualified for multi-accounting. Bluff magazine reported that Lock Poker stated there was a second person that logged in and played from Macedo’s account during the contest.
Jennifer Larson, Lock Poker owner and CEO, is quoted by pokernewsboy.com as saying, “After doing an audit of his account we have found that he broke an important rule and that will not be tolerated by Lock”. She goes on to state that, “Although José won enough money from his own IP to have legitimately won the challenge, the unfortunate fact remains that breaking the rules is strictly disallowed.”
Macedo tweeted that he commented on his disqualification on his blog, but at the time of publication the post has been removed.
However, the article is still available on google cache. In it, Macedo writes:
“I’m deeply sorry for having broken the rules, but I truly had no intention of circumventing the rules in any way. Though it is no excuse, I want to be fully transparent at this point to let the poker world know what has happened and why. The computer in question was my backer, who logged into my account to check my balance and ended up playing some $25/$50 PLO while I was asleep and lost some money. Though on the merit of my own legitimate play I had enough winnings to win the Bluff Challenge, in light of the way things appear, I fully support and respect Lock’s decision to disqualify me and hand over the challenge to the second place winner. Once again, I truly regret that all of this has happened the way it has, and I hope that I can win back the generous support and understanding of the players who have believed in me so far. I will be issuing a more comprehensive explanation of what happened on my blog. Thank you.”
As a result of the disqualification, runner-up Michael “bigguylegend22” Drummond was declared the winner of the contest.
