/ Matthew Pitt / 14 March 2011 / Leave a Comment 
Not Machado - he's a little older than this!
The Two Plus Two poker forums are usually awash with rumours that Player A won X amount of dollars in next to no time but almost all of them disappear without most people giving them a second thought. However, one such rumour appeared in January that simply refused to go away.
The person informed the online poker community of an 18-year old Portuguese poker player who had won around $2,000,000 from a tiny deposit and as usual the claims were refuted. The poster also mentioned that this particular player had received coaching from the likes of Daniel "jungleman12" Cates, which pricked up the ears of many people but due to the nature of the post, which seemed as if the poster was too obsessed with trying to track down this Portuguese youngster, most swept it under the carpet and dismissed the claims.
However, on the evening of Wednesday 2 March a poster by the name of "Girah" started a thread in which he claimed to be the so-called Portuguese Poker Prodigy. Although he said that he was under strict instructions from his lawyers not to publish his online alias' he did post a screenshot of his last 817,379 hands played, which shows him at a staggering $1,624,044.95 profit! He went on to reveal that he has made all of this money from an initial $30 deposit on Betfair Poker using good bankroll management and playing a phenomenal amount of hands.
His name is Jose Machado, an 18-year old who became fascinated with the game a couple of years ago when he read Tom "durrrr" Dwan's story of rags to riches and he went out of his way to emulate him. After racking up a ton of experience playing for play money and on the Facebook poker site Zynga, Machado managed to convince his mother to let him use her credit card and deposit $30 online, and he has never looked back.
Despite only playing $0.01/$0.02 in the first instance, he managed to grind up this $30 to $2,500 within a month and was quickly playing $0.50/$1. His meteroic rise continued until he reached the dizzy heights of NL1000, with blinds of $5 and $10, where he says he struggled to break through. At this point he set out to get tips and coaching from the very best in the game including Cates and Ben "Sauce123" Sulsky, which helped him to push through and win more than $280,000 at this level. He has since continued his climb and is a regular at the $25/$50 and $50/$100 heads-up No limt Hold'em games.
As you would expect the extremely talented youngster is in high demand right now but here at Betfair Poker, where he first cut his teeth in the world of real money online poker, we have been in contact with the Portuguese Isildur1 and he has agreed to answer a few questions for you readers, which should hopefully appear here in the next few days.
Sign up for a free Betfair Poker account through this link and see if you can use the $50 to $2,500 sign up bonus to kickstart your rise to poker's elite!
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