[ActionJeff]

all I am going to say on this matter is:

While playing day 2 of WPT Niagara, I was moved to a very tough table
with many deepstacked, strong aggressive players. One of these players
was a kid 2 to my left who now is 3rd in the tournament going into the
final 2 tables, and claimed to have satellited in on $27. I didn't
believe him and didn't put much thought into it at the time.

During day 3 I was told by a very reliable source that this kid, Kofi
Farkye, is the PokerStars player redsoxsox.I asked everyone who knows
anything and they all said the same thing, and all told me he was
still playing on Stars and gave the same two screennames.

For those unfamiliar, here is some history:

redsoxsox appeared out of nowhere and crushed the $100rs. They ran two
a day and he and another new player, opobi43, would play a very
similar style and put a ton of money into the rebuy periods but also
win the tournament with a very high frequency. Opobi and Redsoxsox
would often be placed at the same starting table as the fields were
smaller a year ago, and would always both build huge stacks and play
giant, absurd pots with each other dumping off enormous amounts of
chips. I emailed PokerStars about this blatant collusion in the rebuy
period and received no response.

I finally got deep in a $100r with redsoxsox, and opobi was there too.
We three made the final table, and ended up three handed. They never
played big pots with each other and gave me hell. The same thing
happened in a 100r weeks later- all three of us made the final table
and got 3 handed. 3 handed play was the same.

I emailed PokerStars again after the fact:

I recently was 3 handed in a $100r with 2 regular stars players,
redsoxsox and opobi43. I won and
was happy. The same thing happened again in another 100r a month later or
so, not sure of exact dates would have to pokerdb it. Then I heard
that redsoxsox and opobi were good friends, and that redsoxsox was
underaged and played as opobi43 on Full Tilt Poker. So they share
accounts, dump huge stacks to each other in rebuy periods, and get 3
handed with me and I feel like I might be being cheated. I am 100%
certain that these players are sharing hole cards in rebuy periods and
believe review of any $100rs they participated in will reveal this. I
also suspect these players regularly collude and could even be the
same player.

I sent this before and wasn't responded to. I am mentioning it again
because I haven't seen Opobi in a long while and was wondering if he
and redsoxsox might have been banned for cheating for like what happened
to me, and I wasn't informed?

thanks for looking into all of this!

-Jeff

"security@pokerstars.com"
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11/9/06
Hello Jeffrey,


We did investigate the matter between redsoxsox and opobi43, and both
players have since been banned for collusion.

Thank you for all of your help.


Regards,

Jason
PokerStars Security Team



so yes,

I have tons of info and can confirm that Kofi is redsoxsox. I can confirm that he and opobi43 were banned from PokerStars for collusion. I can confirm that they are brothers. I cannot 100% confirm that they colluded vs. me in those $100rs, and I don't know anything about Sunday millions, but I can confirm from both their play and by admission that they at the very least soft played shorthanded which is collusion any way you look at it.

I don't know Kofi and haven't posted anything that already hasn't been said. For all I know he is a good guy who made a mistake and is just trying to play poker and make money now. I don't know what the situation is but I don't think its that big a deal. My main grievance is that PokerStars would have released more information regarding the collusion and refunding players affected.

-Jeff