Online Poker Players Expose Alleged Fraud

AnotherHelenD · 09-09-2008 11:14pm #1

This might be of interest to anyone who plays on AbsolutePoker.com

http://abcnews.go.com/technology/Story?id=3752500&page=1

09-09-2008 11:15pm

LOL. In before the inevitable...

AnotherHelenD · 09-09-2008 11:18pm

It does say alleged

09-09-2008 11:20pm

AnotherHelenD wrote: »

It does say alleged

You not really into poker eh?

cooker3 · 09-09-2008 11:20pm

You should have looked at the date the story was posted

belfastlad · 09-09-2008 11:21pm

[x] in before ban/lock

AnotherHelenD · 09-09-2008 11:25pm

Sorry 'bout that link I accessed through had today's date. on it. Yes I do like poker alas there's no need to resort to cheating to win all my money.

cooker3 · 09-09-2008 11:26pm

belfastlad wrote: »

[x] in before ban/lock

You know the quickest way of integrating yourself to a forum and not look like a tool is to post some good content, not just try act cool and post stuff like this.

Chucky the tree · 09-09-2008 11:26pm

Does anyone know what the situation is with 60 minutes doing a show on it?

09-09-2008 11:31pm

AnotherHelenD wrote: »

Sorry 'bout that link I accessed through had today's date. on it. Yes I do like poker alas there's no need to resort to cheating to win all my money.

Sorry for the sarcasm it was uncalled for.

Almost every serious poker player on earth knows this story. It's part of the zeitgeist of internet poker. The "superuser" has entered the vocabulary of the regular internet player and carries all the connotations of the scandal that followed that story.

Hence some people's disregard for your post. Sorry that I was amongst them.

keane2097 · 09-09-2008 11:33pm

This is how long it took for the word to get out it seems...

Conbro · 09-09-2008 11:38pm

Cheers Another Helen. Let us know if you hear about any furher developments

cooker3 · 09-09-2008 11:41pm

cooker3 wrote: »

You know the quickest way of integrating yourself to a forum and not look like a tool is to post some good content, not just try act cool and post stuff like this.

Oh I just read BBV and realised he is DBC, no matter

AnotherHelenD · 09-09-2008 11:41pm

Deleted User wrote: »

Sorry for the sarcasm it was uncalled for.
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LOL. Accepted. Your are right I do look like a tool. However I wasn't trying to be cool. I just thought you lot would be interested in the article..and two years ago I would have been right:o

09-09-2008 11:45pm

AnotherHelenD wrote: »

LOL. Accepted. Your are right I do look like a tool. However I wasn't trying to be cool. I just thought you lot would be interested in the article..and two years ago I would have been right:o

Well better late than...actually no...:p

Ste05 · 09-09-2008 11:46pm

Yeah it's well documented, it was actually first uncovered on a Poker forum like this one called 2+2, internet players are able to find patterns in people's play that keep things like this from happening or uncovering it if they do.

That site and another site owned by the same people called Ultimate Bet are very dodgy and not many people play on them anymore. Certainly no-one that knows about on-line Poker, as with every industry there are always going to be rogue companies doing bad stuff...

DubTony · 10-09-2008 9:56am

Isn't it interesting that Phil Hellmuth and Annie Duke still associate themselves with UB. You would think that 2 well known pros would be inclined to distance themselves from the sort of activity that this company seems to allow to happen.

Just a thought.

Ste05 · 10-09-2008 11:49am

Yeah, it's very strange, the power of the almighty $$ I suppose.

zap27 · 10-09-2008 1:23pm

so for those of us less informed-how did the story end?!!

Ste05 · 10-09-2008 1:48pm

IIRC Ultimate Bet refunded a few million to cheated players, and so did Absolute Poker, but there are still huge question marks hanging over both sites, (e.g. the cheats haven't been named or prosecuted, there's a chance it was an inside job and the Auditing standards are very iffy on the sites) the investigation is still on-going really, TBH I haven't been following the latest developments in the last month or 2, but nothing massive has appeared on my radar lately.

cooker3 · 10-09-2008 2:38pm

It's not just a slight chance. There is about 99.9% chance that it was a big inside job

Ste05 · 10-09-2008 2:47pm

cooker3 wrote: »

It's not just a slight chance. There is about 99.9% chance that it was a big inside job

Well I wouldn't put it quite that high, but I didn't want to scare the villagers...

EDIT: Also, oi!! I never said "a slight chance", I said "a chance"!! :mad:

cooker3 · 10-09-2008 2:55pm

Damn if only I was a mod, I just edit your post and make myself correct!

Ste05 · 10-09-2008 3:17pm

Ahh but then there's be a little Edited by cooker3 at XX:XXPM at the bottom of the poast...

pok3rplaya · 10-09-2008 4:44pm

cooker3 wrote: »

You know the quickest way of integrating yourself to a forum and not look like a tool is to post some good content, not just try act cool and post stuff like this.

BAN

CelticPhantom · 11-09-2008 8:23am

cooker3 wrote: »

It's not just a slight chance. There is about 99.9% chance that it was a big inside job

So .......

0.1% for variance, eh:pac:

RoundTower · 11-09-2008 12:11pm

DubTony wrote: »

Isn't it interesting that Phil Hellmuth and Annie Duke still associate themselves with UB. You would think that 2 well known pros would be inclined to distance themselves from the sort of activity that this company seems to allow to happen.

Just a thought.

It's not that strange that some well known poker players are utter scum, a lot less surprising than say priests or archbishops.

Online Poker Players Expose Alleged Fraud

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