That's the first time I've watched that vid...it usually gets blocked for some reason.
It's genius..
(Note to Haseeb: That's real creativity... not your hackneyed, god awful, up it's own arse prose)
That's the first time I've watched that vid...it usually gets blocked for some reason.
It's genius..
(Note to Haseeb: That's real creativity... not your hackneyed, god awful, up it's own arse prose)
lol & +1Originally Posted by nunbeater
Haseeb probably profited off the Girah team view cheating thing. Guy is such a piece of shit.
Full article can be read at the link but Haseeb made it on yahoo website. At least he's doing something reputable these days.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/one-si...162658213.html
How one Silicon Valley engineer negotiated a starting salary from $120k to $250k in just a few weeks
Business Insider By Eugene Kim
3 hours ago
Haseeb Qureshi makes $250,000 a year as a software engineer at Airbnb.
But he could have ended up with a $120,000 position at Yelp if he had taken his first offer.
How did he manage to more than double his starting salary in just a few weeks?
Qureshi, a former professional poker player with an English degree, recounts his story in a recent blog post shared on his website.
The whole story is a fascinating read and gives a glimpse into Silicon Valley's competitive hiring market for engineers. It also serves as a reminder that persistence and negotiation pays off in any job hunt.
"If there’s one thing this job search had taught me, is that there’s always, always more money on the table," Qureshi writes. "On all but two of my offers, I negotiated...negotiation pays, boys and girls."
Given how much this guy lies, I don't know how much we can believe any of these stories.
This is all self-reported, and I doubt that any of the companies "negotiating" to hire him are going to comment whether he's telling the truth, because they don't like discussing these types of matters.
I am wondering how he managed to get hired when there are so many google results referring to him as a scammer, cheater, and liar. If I were a hiring manager, I would stay far away from someone with results like that.
LOL @ his "earn to give" nonsense: http://haseebq.com/why-ive-decided-t...rning-to-give/
I can only imagine what angle he's shooting with this one.
This kinda contradicts your assertion that employers google potential employees' names.
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They do.This kinda contradicts your assertion that employers google potential employees' names.
I'm guessing this may have gotten bypassed in the flurry to "hire the best candidate", since he got referred by a third-party source which gave him glowing reviews (passed the programming test, interviewed well, etc).
This might actually be some of the reason he went through a third party source to get a job, rather than interviewing directly.
In any case, he got lucky.
I guarantee they don't do it as much as you're led to believe or think they do. That's all I'm saying.They do.
I'm guessing this may have gotten bypassed in the flurry to "hire the best candidate", since he got referred by a third-party source which gave him glowing reviews (passed the programming test, interviewed well, etc).
This might actually be some of the reason he went through a third party source to get a job, rather than interviewing directly.
In any case, he got lucky.
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Go to 23 minute mark or so, and you'll hear him talking about Girah.
After all this time, Haseeb still can't stop lying about it.
He's claiming that the 100k dumped to Girah was simply to fund his account, supposedly because Lock didn't have player-to-player transfers on there.
First off, I don't even think that's true. I believe Lock did have transfers in April 2012, but let's put that aside for the moment.
Haseeb honestly wants us to believe that 100k dumped to Girah on April 30th -- an amount just enough to put him in first place for a lucrative contest for the site's biggest money winner for the month -- was just a coincidence. We're supposed to just take his word for it that the April 30th date of the chip dumping was completely coincidental. It had nothing to do with the fact that the contest ended on April 30th, or that 100k was just about exactly what Girah needed in order to win the contest.
Seriously, Haseeb... either stop talking about the Girah thing or finally own up to the truth.
This guy just spits out detailed lies like it's second nature.
One thing that influences a ton of people in life, especially in certain nationality cultures is family.
After this scandal came out Haseeb gave away all his poker earnings to charity, family, refunding certain people for things,etc. before quitting the game forever.
What I wonder is if his family didn't think gambling was wrong in society, which is what I take out of this then would he still continued to play after the Girah scandal came out?
When someone like Haseeb hears his family tell him stuff like how wrong gambling is, that they are disappointed in the way he's been living his life the past few years, and that this is against their beliefs it does trigger some of them to change their life or be disowned by the people closest to you.
Haseeb likely does value his family and in this case with all he has done horribly it might be good they are strongly against gambling perhaps even disowning him if he continued to be part of the poker community.
I don't believe he gave away anything, unless it was to angle for something bigger (such as to impress someone else he was scamming for even more money).
This guy is a selfish pathological liar. I don't believe anything he does is motivated by generosity or empathy.
In fact, if he really turned over a new leaf, he would have owned up to what he did and apologized for it. Instead, he's appearing on podcasts four years later and still peddling the same bullshit excuses he offered up at the time. This is not a reformed man.
Anything he claims is suspect and probably not what it seems on the surface.
By Haseeb claiming remorse to the poker community I'm not believing either but if his family didn't approve of his choices then I don't think he wanted to make them resent him so he did take this approach.
I doubt he gave away as much money as he claimed to but wouldn't be surprised if he did give a bunch to make his story plausible with his family who probably would be made aware of what he is telling the poker world.
Haseeb could have dodged doing this interview, especially since ChicagoJoey target audience are of course poker players and Haseeb wanted to put that life behind him (so he claims) but he decided to do it anyways.
I'm not sure what to make out of him doing this interview because when you look at a guy like Haseeb you have to feel that he is trying to gain something from this but what is it?
If he truly has no intentions of playing poker again then what is in it for him to address the past if he already has this solid job locked in?
I believe him.
That Apr 30th thing could of been
A. a helluva coincidence 2%
B. Girah was cheating and Haseeb was an unwitting accomplice. 85%
C. Haseeb and Girah maybe others were engaged in a conspiracy to cheat 13%
So let me guess, everyone's trying to get Haseeb fired from his job on speculation. smh
Giving to charity wasn't enough? He had to be lying about that too. I totally disagree.
Did you follow the Girah scandal at all?
It wasn't just the April 30th chip dump. He also admitted (a few years ago) that the Girah account was sometimes used by him and Jungleman, in order to get action from players who otherwise wouldn't play them under their own accounts. He also admitted to have made some posts on 2+2 as Girah.
Girah was basically a puppet. He was a real person, but his entire "poker prodigy" thing was a persona created and manipulated by Haseeb, for various nefarious purposes.
By winning this contest, Girah was going to have his picture on the front of BLUFF plus get a $10k Main Event seat. This would have been huge for the growing legend of Girah.
There is ZERO POINT ZERO chance that Haseeb wasn't cheating the contest by that chip dump.
I do believe that the chip dump wasn't premeditated, though. That's why it all happened on April 30th. They probably thought of it at the last minute, and decided to crown Girah the winner.
Also, it should be noted that Haseeb dumped the money under an unknown account named "SamChauhan" (which didn't belong to the real Sam Chauhan), and not any account he was known to be associated with. If it were just a money transfer, he would have dumped the money from his own account.
Haseeb has been caught in so many lies over the years, I've lost track of them all.
A guy like that doesn't decide to give his money away to charity without there being some sort of angle.
And if he really felt guilty about what he did regarding Girah, he would come clean about it, rather than continue to lie on podcasts four years later.
I didn't follow it that close. Just from watching the interview he seemed honest. Joey seemed to like him and was satisfied with his answers. He didn't treat him with contempt at all. If Hasseb was lying I figured Joey would be at the very least a bit stand offish. Everyone still loves Jungle aka his partner in crime. It seemed like these guys had been cleared by the community.
I'll take your word for it 0.0 on the chip dump, he's a pretty good bullshitter i guess.
At the very least 45k to charity plus he's out of poker. I really hope there's nobody emailing his bosses etc.
It's over guys.
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I disagree. It seemed every other sentence was a flat out lie or a major twisting of the truth. Knowing much of the backstory made it more obvious though.
Ugh. Someone linked me to this post. Most of the crap I've seen on the internet I've been wise enough not to respond to, but all other things equal, I respect you Dan. I'm only going to make this one post, since I'm no longer a part of the community and there's nobody here to counter this BS but me.
Did you follow the Girah scandal at all?
It wasn't just the April 30th chip dump. He also admitted (a few years ago) that the Girah account was sometimes used by him and Jungleman, in order to get action from players who otherwise wouldn't play them under their own accounts. He also admitted to have made some posts on 2+2 as Girah.
Girah was basically a puppet. He was a real person, but his entire "poker prodigy" thing was a persona created and manipulated by Haseeb, for various nefarious purposes.
By winning this contest, Girah was going to have his picture on the front of BLUFF plus get a $10k Main Event seat. This would have been huge for the growing legend of Girah.
There is ZERO POINT ZERO chance that Haseeb wasn't cheating the contest by that chip dump.
I do believe that the chip dump wasn't premeditated, though. That's why it all happened on April 30th. They probably thought of it at the last minute, and decided to crown Girah the winner.
Also, it should be noted that Haseeb dumped the money under an unknown account named "SamChauhan" (which didn't belong to the real Sam Chauhan), and not any account he was known to be associated with. If it were just a money transfer, he would have dumped the money from his own account.
Haseeb has been caught in so many lies over the years, I've lost track of them all.
A guy like that doesn't decide to give his money away to charity without there being some sort of angle.
And if he really felt guilty about what he did regarding Girah, he would come clean about it, rather than continue to lie on podcasts four years later.
So I'll set the record straight here—first briefly about the scandal, though that's been discussed ad nauseum. But more importantly, about charity.
First, a couple Girah things. I'll keep it brief.
First, I'm glad you agree the chip-dump wasn't premeditated. I agree that would be very strange given the timing. But there are three things in your analysis that are mistaken.
First, that Jose would've gotten a $10K seat to the WSOP. He would not have. He was under 21, and hence was not eligible for the seat; if you read the original press release when they thought he had won, you can confirm this. So the only advantage he would've gotten would be getting on the cover of BLUFF magazine. That was hardly worth risking $100K and our reputations over (if such a chipdump was discovered, the money would've been confiscated). Why would we do that intentionally on the very last day in such an obvious way? You can't simultaneously think we're masterminds and also total idiots.
Second, you are wrong that Sam Chauhan was not a name we were associated with; both Jungle and I had a pretty public connection to Sam Chauhan at the time, who was a mental coach type person. Several people when they first saw the screenname made the connection to us. In other words, we didn't try to hide our identities at all because we believed the site was untracked and weren't aware of any public contest.
All of this happened more than 5 years ago, so you may be right that Lock had transfers, they may have just been severely restricted or something. I understand they're even more restrictive now. All I remember is that we ruled out transferring as an option, and we also didn't want to wire him money because he was under 18, so he did not have his own bank account, only his mother's.
Third, Jose was not a puppet. Many, many mid and high-stakes pros aside from Jungle and I knew him and had played poker with him. This "puppet" point was very quickly debunked, but somehow it still keeps floating around. It was also later proved that the original LookingForProdigy post on 2p2 had come from him (a Portuguese IP), which he later admitted was one of his friends. This was something Jungle and I had no idea about. So we were duped by Jose like everyone else, which should not be surprising.
Plus, this whole "mastermind puppet" narrative makes no sense when you consider that I was the one who actually outed Jose's cheating to begin with. I describe the story in the podcast with Joey. What incentive would I have to do that? These conspiracy theories require insane complexity to make any sense. And as more time passes, more and more of the facts get garbled in a giant game of telephone. Earlier I saw someone write that I was "on the Teamviewer account and defrauded people out of 250K" and that "it was found out that I'd never been a winning player" and that "no one had ever met Jose." It's completely absurd.
I agree with you that I lied throughout the Girah Scandal. It was a crazy and fucked up situation, and I made a lot of awful decisions. I absolutely deserved everything that came to me.
That was five years ago. I was 21 then. I'm 26 now, almost 27. Literally a fifth of my life has past, as much time as my entire poker career. It's very weird and myopic for you to claim deep insight into my personality or how I've changed since then.
Okay. So that's enough about Girah bullshit. It's been beaten to death. Let's talk about charity, because it's stuff that actually matters outside the walled garden of internet forums.
You claim that "a guy like that doesn't just give his money away to charity."
I did.
You pride yourself on your investigative skills. In 2014, I posted receipts on my website of every donation I made. Since I started working full-time as a software engineer, I've been donating 33% of everything I make. The organizations I donate to are not hard to find—I write about them openly on my blog, and exactly how much I donated, year after year. I'm making it easy for you. Go track down whether I've donated money.
You claim that there must be some "angle" in my donating. You're right.
My angle is that I'm earning-to-give, by making an outsized income in an arbitrarily prosperous economy, and transferring that money toward charities in other parts of the world where it can alleviate as much suffering as possible. My second angle is that I want to encourage others to do the same.
The world is a much bigger place than the pond of poker. I decided to devote my life to this, came out to Silicon Valley, worked my ass off, and now I'm goddamn doing it. So I'm fine with you despising me, calling me names, whatever. But I came out here so I could make the world a better place, and advocate to others that they might do the same. It really pisses me off to see you try to piss on that.
Haseeb
Haseeb made the above post a few months ago, then insta-deleted it for some reason.
I have restored this gem for the public to view.
Anyway, recall how he was promoting some coding bootcamp he supposedly attended, where he learned enough coding skills in 12 weeks to get a $250k job at AirBnb.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/one-si...162658213.html
The above puff piece on Yahoo chronicled his story, though it appears to likely be a paid piece promoting this coding bootcamp, of which he clearly now has some kind of managerial/ownership role.
Anyway, check out this LOL ad which just popped up on 2+2:
Not sure if he bought ad space on 2+2 directly, or if this is part of an ad network that 2+2 is using.
Either way....
I'm not going to pretend I was linked to this lol. I've just fired up an old laptop, this board/thread was thumbnailed and I took a look because I'm nosy.
Druff has said that in the podcast the past is being brought up again. I haven't watched it... its over 2 hours long and ain't no-one got time for that. Save Druff mentioning he's talking about J and the scandal I don't know what he said or what the motive is but if you read this Haseeb, practice your altruism and leave it buried in the past where it belongs. J for one has made right what he can where he can and got on with his life. He's doing well and living better. It is not cool to keep dragging that shit up when you want attention.
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