Daniel Smiljkovic Over the holidays, German high-stakes pro Daniel Smiljkovic publicly accused MonkerGuy of keeping $21,744 that Smiljkovic had mistakenly sent in a cryptocurrency exchange, while MonkerGuy denied ever receiving the money.
MonkerGuy is a poker service that lets players request game-theory optimal (GTO) simulations or rent servers to help them “play mathematically perfect strategy from UTG to Big Blind.”
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Smiljkovic, a pro best known by his online poker username “SmilleThHero”, wrote in a Two Plus Two post that he tried to send a friend $21,744 in a crypto exchange about a month ago. Smiljkovic accidentally sent the money to the previously used crypto address, “which was the one I uses to pay for MonkerGuy.” Daniel Smiljkovic at WSOP Paradise Smiljkovic, who recently finished third in the $25,000 GGMillion$ High Rollers Championship at WSOP Paradise , said he texted MonkerGuy to ask about the money “and at first he said he never received it.”
“I checked on the blockchain and the money had been transferred to an exchange an hour after it arrived,” Smiljkovic wrote on Dec. 25. “I confronted him about it and he now said the address belonged to a friend. He then also said, his friends account got freezed for KYC (Know Your Customer) purposes. I have asked about who that friend was, what exchange it was, …. MonkerGuy has decided not to answer any of those questions.”
In an email exchange, MonkerGuy told Smiljkovic that the money had been sent to a friend’s exchange account that had been locked. An email exchange between Daniel Smiljkovic and MonkerGuy “I asked him about the $21k and he says he doesn’t have access to that wallet any more / didn’t receive $21k.” MonkerGuy wrote, according to a screenshot shared on Two Plus Two. “I’m trying to find out exactly what this means and how to get the $ back now.”
In a follow-up email, MonkerGuy offered Smiljkovic a discount of $200/month on his server rental to make things right, an offer that the German pro did not take kindly […]
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