A.) Has active"Super User" accounts. These are test accounts that software programmers use to test software during development. These accounts can see every card at the table and can gather just about every piece of data the site has about a player it is playing against. These types of accounts are not unusual since the site has to have audit and security tools but obviously playing against people for money is blatant cheating.
B.) A former programmer for Absolute Poker had apparently hijacked at least 6 dead accounts and used them along with his "SuperUser" account #363 to cheat at least a dozen high stakes players of well over $200,000 and help an old college buddy win a $100,000 tournament.
C.) Absolute Poker had to be informed by the poker community in general of the suspicious activity of those "Cheating" accounts. Once informed they went into a PR tail spin of lies and inaction until a customer support employee "Accidentally" sent an excel spreadsheet full of IP numbers, deposit histories, Hand Histories and Observer Histories to a group of poker nerds who could analyze and use the information. They continued to deny deny deny until emails and transfer histories directly connecting Tom the "Super User" to the Absolute Poker servers.
D.) Absolute cannot ignore the fact that its player base is tech saavy, uses poker tracker and thanks to open discussion on poker forums around the world collecting, analyzing and disseminating data on the past time the love are the best auditors in the world.
I quit playing at Absolute Poker over 18 months ago because I just could never win there despite the really great bonuses they offer. Also I just did not like the feel of the software in general. The place just did not make me want to play there for purely personal reasons. However, all along I have heard rumors of bots and Super Users so beyond an occasional invite only freeroll I don't, haven't and now will never play there.
NOTE TO POLITICIANS: You can never stop people playing Poker or Gambling online. Net saavy Americans generally stay 2 steps ahead of whatever cheesy attempt at banning you pass in the middle of the night. As a result all of the online Poker, Sports Books, Casinos and Bingo sites are in other countries with confusing ownership which allows Cheating and Collusion scandals to occur and continue without fear of legal punishment in the US because well "We banned it". Currently there is no law I know of in the US that can be used by an American to attempt recovery of losses or damages due to cheating or collusion on a poker site. If I cheat at the local casino and get caught I go to jail period.
We are going to play anyway. Protect you constituents:
Repeal the UGEIA,
formally legitimize poker,
regulate it,
and ultimately tax the hell out of the billions currently flying across poker tables.
Just my take on the issue.
Peace Out
I agree !
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