Absolute Poker is rigged... no seriously

[de-coder]

Jose's first language is clearly not english - I suspect it's french. I'm used to dealing with french firsters so it didn't bother me.

[melioris]

Just to be clear, I am not being jingoistic here. Often in my work I have to communicate to folks in languages other than english and you can bet your ass when I do I get a native speaker to review the entire correspondence to confirm all my spelling and grammar, as well as to make sure that I am not missing something in the phrasing or translation. Sometimes we have to pay for this service out of pocket, but it is always worth it. It comes down to valuing your work and the work of others, also known as professionalism.

When a business doesn't value professionalism I think they are revealing a corrupt core.

[Windbreaker]

Absolute Support Responds:

Cliff notes - Investigated, Superaccounts do not exist, Please resume your game.

[Wes]

New interesting details and theories here.

's theory on how all this went down. Pretty awesome reading here.

with cliff notes on what has happened so far.

[2Tone]

For other forum post of the year. I don't know if it is true or not, but it is extremely compelling.

[MAYHEM45]

This is so awesome. F5 F5 F5 F5

[Wes]

I'll probably misapply some tidbits, but here is the jist of the recent commotion.

Scott Tom, cofounder of Absolute Poker has had his e-mail address/IP address linked back to him from account #363. This account was seen observing POTRIPPER, the account that somehow made these awesome maniac reads that lead him to victory in the 1k absolute tourney that runs weekly i believe. What is interesting about this is that when account #363 was not observing POTRIPPER, POTRIPPER folded both of the two hands he was not observing. An interesting tidbit considering this guy was literally playing every hand.

As to how people got this information on who was observing, the 2nd place finisher in this tournament thought something was up and asked for the entire hand history for that tournament. What was sent to him was an excel file of every hand in the tournament, along with the ip addresses/email addresss of every player and observer that was at every table. People have done some investigative work over at 2+2 and have found the above information.

Now, why would Scott Tom, cofounder of Absolute Poker, suddenly be cheating people out of money when he sold his company for more than a hundred million dollars? Well, here is the latest theory by :

[Talking Poker]

This is really amazing stuff. That Dan Druff timeline is brilliant. Don't you just love good investigative reporting???

What I find most interesting about this theory (which certainly seems plausible) is that this guy COULD have gotten away with it. He could have created a new account, and SLOWLY (relatively speaking) worked his way up through the ranks. He could have mixed winning and losing sessions, made some bad calls here and there, and never even aroused suspicion. He could have turned himself into an online poker God......... but greed takes over, and people just cna't control themselves.

Then again, maybe he figured he'd be caught sooner or later (or lose his access to account #363), so he decided to try to make as quick of a hit and run as possible.

Either way, this whole #363 thing makes it seem almost certain that something fishy was going on, and shame on Absolute for covering it up (this is givign them the benefit of the doubt and assuming they weren't already aware of this - but they certainly had the means to figure out what was going on when the data was handed to them on a silver platter).