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"Back Door" Cheating Scandal Rocks Online Poker
AcidAUS sends us the story of an online poker cheating ring that netted an estimated $10M for its perpetrators over almost 4 years. The article spotlights the role of an Australian player who first performed the statistical analyses that demonstrated that cheating had to be going on. "In two separate cases, Michael Josem, from Chatswood, analyzed detailed hand history data from Absolute Poker and UltimateBet and uncovered that certain player accounts won money at a rate too fast to be legitimate. His findings led to an internal investigation by the parent company that owns both sites. It found rogue employees had defrauded players over three years via a security hole that allowed the cheats to see other player's secret (or hole) cards." The (Mohawk) Kahnawake Gaming Commission, which licenses the two poker companies, has released its preliminary report. MSNBC reporting from a couple of weeks back gives deep background on the scandal.
If it was legal, you'd only play onshore, where you could rely on it being inspected and audited much like slot machines.
The only people who would play unknown offshore games are cheaters, idiots, money launderers, and those trying to avoid taxes. And only the cheaters and the house(who are probably either the cheaters or the money launderers) would win, draining the money from idiots and tax-dodgers.
Sounds good to me.
It's a fact of life that there is always someone better than you lurking somewhere. The champions of today will be beat by some pimply faced guy from the internet next year. It would seem that the primary skill of successful professional poker players is avoiding one another and finding tables with suckers on them.
Your logic on the second paragraph is stunning. Do you use that kind of logic to melt the brains of other players? I think it would work.
I read the internet for the articles.
Yeah, but there's an easier way to know.
It's poker. Therefore, somebody was cheating, or at least trying to cheat. QED.
Where there's poker, there's always cheating. Sometimes it's not very sophisticated (e.g., table talk of the "I have the card he wants you to think he's got" variety), and sometimes it's more involved, but there's always cheating. Cheaters are drawn to poker like insects to electric lights.
Cut that out, or I will ship you to Norilsk in a box.
You are an ignorant moron. Absolutely no substance whatsoever in your post.