Absolute Poker Speaks about Cheating rumors

For online gamers, it's one thing to trust the players aren't cheating. For websites, it's keeping the trust of such things--however, a nightmare occurs when that trust is broken, and AbsolutePoker.com could be reeling for a while. Complaints began to surface that there were "superuser" accounts that could see the hole cards of all the players at a table during a high stakes poker tournament at Absolute Poker.

According to forums on TwoPlusTwo.com, the complaints started when "Potripper" enjoyed a prosperous, yet unlikely, string of fortune during a poker tournament, at one point going 20 minutes without folding pre-flop. A player by the name of "crazymarco" got suspicious and e-mailed Absolute Poker to request a file of the hand history--which is an industry standard that Absolute and other sites comply with--but what he received was far from the standard hand-history file. In addition to hand histories, it revealed the hole cards of each player and IP addresses and user details of both people at the table and those observing.

Further investigation revealed that "Potripper" folded his first two hands at the table in question, but once observer No. 363 arrived at the table, "Potripper" didn't fold another hand before the flop for 20 minutes--thus implying that somehow No. 363 was using a super user account and relaying all of the hole cards to "Potripper." Making matters worse, the IP of No. 363 was tracked back to a person by the name of Scott Tom, who Absolute Poker has confirmed is a "former member of Team Absolute Poker."

Yikes. Scared yet?? Absolute's owner attempted to set the record straight by releasing a statement addressed to its players. "The integrity of our poker system was compromised by a high-ranking trusted consultant employed by AP whose position gave him extraordinary access to certain security systems," said Joe Norton, the former Grand Chief of the Mohawk Territory of Kahnawake and the owner of Tokwiro Enterprises ENRG, which holds a 100% interest in Absolute Poker. He also went on to say that AP has been cooperative with the investigation and that he would personally answer emails sent to him.

Stay tuned--this could change a lot of things for other sites as well.

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