Scammed by ClubGG Club "LuckyBucks" ID # 523314?
I joined this poker club after some kid at a local cardroom was seen playing on it at our Poker table. I played a number of times and never won a single penny. As time progressed, and the more hands I played, the gameplay reeked of bots, house players, and occasional signs of collusion between players from countries like Colombia and Venezuela.
Today I send a few hundred dollars to this club. The cashier responded an hour after the fact that I paid for the chips. I told the cashier, as I have some many times in the past, that I had limited time to play because of my gym and work schedule. The cashier loaded the chips, I played some micro games for a few hours, and then finished with a small loss. When I go to ask for my leftover money the agent becomes hostile and launches into a torrent of remarks about how I wasn't playing high enough stakes; despite having lost EVERY SINGLE TIME I played in this club. He then ghosted me entirely and made no further mention of returning the money.
When I confronted the owned, who goes by "John" on Telegram", he spent an entire hour lying and stonewalling. He wouldn't provide any reason for what the agent was doing, but claimed that he was going to personally ensured the money was returned. This, however, was nothing but a lie so he could stall me and remove the chips from the account and keep the money that was used to pay for them.
He claimed he was going to return the money, and then within the same line says "Good luck getting your money". He went on to threaten me that he would produce "content" if I posted on 2+2 about the theft. Whatever the case, these people are thieves!
DO NOT PLAY IN Luckybucks on ClubbGG. Maybe some clubs or legitimate, but this one certainly isn't. They will pretend to be legit when they think they can fleece you with their collusion teams and bots, but when you don't play their rigged-to-lose games they just take off with your money and kick you out of the club.
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Tracked down some dude who apparently was an agent that also got scammed by these same club operators. He brought them players, then skipped off with their cash at one point or another.
The poker club called LuckyBucks on CLUBGG is a GIANT SCAM and the people running it are crooks. IF they can't rob players with their house bots and collusion teams, then they will just take a hike with player funds altogether and hide behind Telegram. "Don" and "John" on Telegram are most likely 2 degenerates based upon the names that appeared on money transfers.
Another day, another person scammed by some random app club.
You know how I avoid these scams? Not playing on clubs or apps.
Another day, another person scammed by some random app club.
You know how I avoid these scams? Not playing on clubs or apps.
100% this. It's amazing how people suck too much at poker that they feel the need to play in dodgy places that they think are weaker, and then cry when their playing with fire gets them burnt
Sadly this type of incident is the result of politicians interfering with something they don't understand, it's just a pity they don't do the same with electricity outlets, they could do with a good jolt to wake them up.
Not saying that is the case here but one can see the obvious trap, they make you play a certain amount and at a certain vpip which inevitably leads to a player losing and then tilting more off.
I see this being the future for some of my compatriots if this poxy bill gets enacted.
yeah I am an I-D-I-O-T. I just enjoyed passing some time, and never expected to get ripped off while playing nickel-ante poker so to speak. I accept the ridicule I deserve. But that does not change the fact of what occurred.
Always in such topics - half of the people say don't play on these apps, half of the other people, yes, I also got scammed by club X Y Z.
You realize there are agents out there who protect against these things, right? Apps have dozens of thousands of players; those who win, how do you think they collect? By trusting randoms?
For those who are too good to play on apps - where do you play? The last 3-4 big outages of bot rings happened to be on "official", "licensed", "regular" sites.
Honestly this is exactly why a lot of players refuse to touch private app clubs anymore. Even if the platform itself isn’t rigged, the real-money side is usually handled by random agents on Telegram, and once something goes wrong you basically have zero protection. There are tons of complaints online about collusion, ghosting, bots and shady cashiers in these kinds of clubs.
The biggest red flag in your story honestly isn’t even the bad beats or suspected bots сause it’s the cashier suddenly refusing to return remaining funds and then getting hostile about your stakes played. Legit operators don’t care whether you play micros or high stakes as long as the money is accounted for.
Unfortunately these app ecosystems attract a lot of grey-market behavior because the platform itself often distances itself from the actual cash handling layer. That doesn’t automatically mean every club is a scam, but it does mean trust matters way more than on regulated sites.
At minimum, posting your experience publicly is useful because other players should know the risks before sending money to random agents through Telegram.
