Absolute Poker admits it?
By admin | October 19, 2007
The following statement was made on the pocket5’s forum earlier today;
PocketFives just received a phone call from Absolute Poker confirming the suspicions of the online poker community over the past month. While we need to be vague in this post to respect their wishes, we can say that their systems were compromised, and that they are prepared to provide the details in a statement coming shortly.
Part of the statement will include a plan to refund players affected by this compromise.
We are extremely relieved to hear this outcome, as our most important goal in all this is to see justice given to those who were cheated in this process. Pocketfives is extremely proud to have played a part in the process of uncovering the impropriety that has occurred. We would of course like to thank all the other parties who played a key role in this process—specifically the folks that have been posting here and at twoplustwo.com.
The thread and any discussion can be found here;
http://www.pocketfives.com/18B87A4F-0F8E-4BB7-A3B8-5729C725E0FA.aspx
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Absolute Poker SuperUser Videos
By admin | October 17, 2007
I don’t want to go on about the situation at Absolute Poker tooo much, but, to save you having to read through hand histories, we have some videos of the hands that are in question. These videos show all the players hole cards. Have a look and make up your own mind about whether there was anything questionable about this players play. The player you are watchng is ‘POTRIPPER’.
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Absolute Poker rigging scandal
By admin | October 17, 2007
Well, the Absolute Poker card rigging scandal continues. But there have been some developments lately that might move this thing to a finish.
Some further allegations have surfaced about Absolute Poker, namely that one of their own people might have been involved, but we’re not going to say much at all about that as AP has indicated that they might start sueing people…
Anyway, finally, after waiting over a month for the rumors to circulate good and proper, AP have issued a kind of statement. The following ’statement’ was emailed today to a member of the 2+2 forum, Corey, who has been involved in this from the beginning…
Absolute Poker Management wishes to inform the poker community of the following information in response to the most recent claims posted over the past 48 hours on the 2+2 and Pocket Fives forums wherein again it is alleged that some person or persons breached Absolute Poker’s redundant and varying levels of game client security. As was stated in Absolute Poker’s Official Response released on Friday October 12, 2007, Absolute Poker conducted an extensive investigation in response to the claims it was made aware of and received. The results of that investigation indicated that to the best of Absolute Poker’s knowledge, information and belief there was no security breach. Specifically, Absolute Poker’s internal investigation determined that it is impossible for any person, device, program, script or other means to see hole cards.Based on the most recent claims that Absolute Poker has been made aware of and at the request of some of our players and business partners, Absolute Poker has agreed to retain a widely acclaimed independent third party auditor, Gaming Associates, to conduct an independent audit of Absolute Poker’s security systems. Specifically, Absolute Poker has requested that Gaming Associates conduct a thorough and extensive review of Absolute Poker’s practices and security systems to determine whether it is possible for any person, device, program, script or other means to see hole cards thereby gaining an unfair advantage. (http://www.gamingassociates.com)Absolute Poker has agreed to fully cooperate with Gaming Associates and its investigative team and to provide the above with unfettered access to all systems, protocols and databases at Absolute Poker worldwide. Absolute Poker has also agreed to allow Gaming Associate’s final report to be made available to Pocket Fives and Bluff Media for their review.With respect to the claims that Scott Tom, a former Member of Team Absolute Poker, is in anyway involved in wrong-doing, Absolute Poker has requested a formal investigation into that matter as well. Mr. Tom has not been involved with Absolute Poker for over a year and to the best of our knowledge, information and belief has not had access to any of Absolute Poker’s systems, databases or information.Absolute Poker reserves the right to pursue any and all remedies whether in law or equitable which may procure to it as a result of any unlawful and injurious actions taken by any individuals who may have falsified any information, documents, files, or have by other means attempted to disparage and/or harm Absolute Poker, its Players, its current or former management, employees, business partners or affiliates.
Absolute Poker shall bear all expenses related to such investigation and is eager to learn about Gaming Associate’s findings. Absolute Poker highly values and intends to protect its players, shareholders, business partners, and affiliates.
Absolute Poker Management
So, at least that is a move in the right direction. Now it remains to be seen what come of it.
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Ice Bear Poker
By admin | September 24, 2007
The free poker money offer of $5 at Ice Bear Poker has ended as of today. Ice Bear Poker is a new-ish room in the Microgaming network. The free offer was popular but they really didn’t run it long enough - it was only available for less than one month as far as I know.
Plus, it wasn’t advertised very widely, nor carried by many poker sites. I’m told that the next bonus there will be great, but I have not been told whether it will be another free money one or not. We’ll just have to wait and see, I guess.
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Poker Site with Monthly Bonus
By admin | September 22, 2007
William Hill Poker
All players are now entitled to a bonus of up to $500 EVERY month at William Hill Poker. And you don’t even have to make a re-deposit. If you already have a bankroll in your William Hill Poker account, just play as normal and you will get $100 for every 1000 MPPs (player points) you earn at the tables, up to a maximum of $500. Every Month!
William Hill Poker is a long established and well respected English bookmaker (sportbook), that also has an online casino and online poker site. The poker site is part of the cryptologic poker network which has about a dozen poker sites in it at the moment.
Cryptologic is a poker software that is very popular with English poker sites. The network shares the player base with each poker site so that means that there are always quite a number of players in the William Hill poker site.
The monthly bonus is also available to all new depositors as well. So as soon as you sign up for a player account, you will be playing for a bonus of up to $500 no matter how much, or little, you deposit.
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Absolute poker rigged?
By admin | September 22, 2007
The big story this week concerns allegations of rigging at Absolute Poker. Some forum posters at the well regarded poker forum on two plus two has made claims that some players on Absolute poker were able to see the hole cards of the other players at the table.
The claims relate to the very high limit and no limit tables only.
This certainly is not the first time that players has claimed that online poker is rigged or fixed - against them, naturally. But what is different about these claims is the people making them - some of the most well known, and respected, and VERY successful online poker players are backing these allegations.
Not everyone agrees on what has happened, or how it might have happened, or who was involved, or even of Absolute Pokers level of involvement. But they all agree on one thing; something very strange has happened.
So waht does Absolute Poker have to say? Basically, nothing. They have looked into the allegations and have found nothing wrong; everything is above board and exactly as it should be. The hands/tables in question were just the result of a bad player getting very very lucky.
I haven’t posted any specific details here. If you want to see the ‘proof’ then head over to the two plus two forum - the address for the latest (at time of posting) details is here.
Next, it is claimed, that after the scandal was made public on some forums, that at least one of the players involved ‘dumped’ his chips to other players, either in an attempt to get his money out or to cover his tracks and start to look like a loosing player. Chipdumping is the name for when a player deliberately looses their chips to another player, say by calling a huge bet that they can’t possibly win, and there can be different reasons for doing this depending on the circumstances. No matter what reason for it, though, it is not allowed by ANY online poker room.
So what does Absolute Poker have to say about the chipdumping then? Nothing; it never happened.
And that is a BIG mistake on their part. Because to any online player with the least bit of knowledge about the game, the chipdumping is irrefutable. It was absolutely and blatently obvious. Again, for details, have a look at the two plus two forum.
Denying that the chipdumping ever happened is silly in the extreme and brings into question their denial of the rigging of the cards allegation.
To be fair, I don’t really know what to believe at this point. But I do think that Absolute Poker should come clean about everything. Trying to sweep it under the carpet and hope it goes away is not the way to handle this. One way or another this will come out. The only chance they have of staying in business, I think, is to come clean and explain what happened and how it can never happen again.
So do I recommend playing at Absolute? Um, no! It’s not that I think you will be cheated. I really don’t think that will happen. But if this thing isn’t fixed soon I think that Absolute may be going out of business, and I certainly wouldn’t want to have part of my bankroll in there when it does.
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Free Poker Bonus No Deposit required
By admin | September 14, 2007
This is a pretty cool free poker bonus with no deposit required at CDPoker. The free money is from a poker site called pokerroomschool.com.
The idea is you sign up with pokerroomschool.com and that will automatically get you an account at CDPoker. Then you read some poker strategy articles kindly provided by pokerroomschool. You will have to take a poker quiz next, and when you pass that you will get $30 for free into your new cdpoker account.
Play some poker, earn some player points, and you can get another $100 in free bonus money.
Unfortunately, CDPoker doesn’t take players from America, and of course you must not already have an account at CDPoker or you won’t be eligible for the bonus.
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Online Poker Free Bonus
By admin | September 12, 2007
You can get $5 absolutely free at this new MicroGaming poker room - Ice Bear Poker!This is an exclusive bonus - that is, it’s not generally available to people who go directly to the poker room. You must click the link here in order to get the bonus.
There are no playthrough requirements, except for the minimum withdrawal amount of $30.
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Bodog Poker Problems
By admin | August 29, 2007
The Bodog poker site was down yesterday due, it seems, to a legal problem in relation to their software. They have, at least temporarily, lost the use of their domain name, bodog.com, and have moved their operation in its entirity to NEWbodog.com.
Gambling911 reports that “…because a retired contractor, Mel Molnick, 63, claims to own a method patent that governs live, electronic betting from a remote location. In other words, the process by which just about every Internet gambling site does business…” - the full story is available at http://www.gambling911.com/online-gambling-082907.html
Not to worry though; business as usual at the new site; you can access that here - New Bodog site
Bodog Poker
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Online Poker Room Bonus
By admin | August 22, 2007
Vegas Poker 247 is a relatively new room using the Absolute Poker software and player network. If you already have an account at Absolute Poker, don’t worry, you can still get an account at Vegas Poker 247 - you will just need to use a different email address for the new account.
This is a nice poker bonus offer - it is relatively easy to clear. And if you don’t play that much poker, that’s ok too as this bonus is paid out in increments of $10.
Another interesting thing about this bonus is that even though Vegas Poker 247 is in the same network as Absolute Poker, this bonus is twice the amount of the Absolute one - they are only offering a maximum of $250 at the moment.
One noticable thing about the Absolute Poker/Vegas Poker 247 software is that the ‘long handed’ tables only seat nine players, and not the more usual ten. Another thing is that the ’short handed’ tables use the same tables as the ‘long’ ones - nine seats - but only six players can sit. This means that yuo will have a choice of seats when you sit in. A small thing, maybe, but the small things matter.
Vegas Poker 247 still accept American players, and so this site is growing in popularity in the current climate. All in all, this is a pretty good online poker room with a pretty good poker bonus offer.
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