Scandal, Super Accounts, Reading Hole Cards – “Not in Online Poker!” Oh Yes, Absolute Poker Black Listed by The Online Poker Community
Scandal, but then, we’ve known it all along
Imagine this:
You’re finally at the final table, your entire online poker career has been building up to this exact place in time. You’ve done everything right, and now you’re reaping the rewards, it’s down to the final two. The difference between first and second a mere ten thousand dollars, $30k for first, $20k for second. This is how online poker is supposed to be. Or is it?
The player with the screen name ‘Marco’ was in this exact position while playing in a tournament on Absolute Poker. Now, being an online poker player since before Party Poker had an ad on television, and a member of the PPA(Poker Players Alliance) since 2002, I’ve called “hacks” my fair share of times, but never once had I truly thought it through.
Instead of collecting his twenty thousand dollars and heading for Cabo, Marco felt something was wrong and asked for his hand histories. Either an insider or a simple minded employee sent him a full Excel spreadsheet of every hand played in the tournament, showing every players hole cards, and a strange coincidence. Upon reaching the online community of 2+2 forums, the sleuths of the game picked up a user with the number of #363(an extremely low number registered from 1 up) following a player named ‘Potripper’, who just happened to win the tournament.
Sources of information:
http://www.absolutepokercheats.com/ – The full story
http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=12523924&page=0&fpart=1&vc=1 – 2+2 Sleuths
Well then, the next time I call BS, someone better listen!
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