... about security in Online Poker. Yes it has been discussed a million times, and im certainly not one of the conspirancy people that think that all poker sites have Super User accounts..

BUT, after the new allegations towards Annie Duke using the UB SuperUser Account herself, but just looking at it with a 15 minute delay, i was wondering..

I mean, every big site has hand history from every User stored.. wouldnt it be pretty easy for a single person to just get a Hand history from a certain User?

I mean having insane amount of Hands from Someone would be an insane advantage towards everyone else especially on the high stakes, wouldnt it?

And it doesnt even have to be new Data, i mean it can even be Month old and still be of insane value to good players or no?


Every site can send you detailed hand information, so it has to be stored somewhere, and someone has to have access to it..


Would it be too far to say that this could happen at every site, even Pokerstars?

I don't think it's too far fetched to imagine that being the case but, there is a fantastic counter argument to that.

The amount of rake that a large, international poker site amasses I believe FAR outweighs the amount of extra money you would make superusing everybody.

Plus to get busted would destroy the reputation that they have worked so hard for in the community. They could still get action just like AP and UB did after all that but it would never go back to the way it was.

Just my 2c. Don't post here ever but felt like posting now, lol.

I think pokersites operate on a level where they literally have nobody to answer to except the absolute jokes people call online gaming networks.

Making an assertion either way seems impossible because pokersites really aren't that open about their business.

Makes sense to me that the major sites at least would never cheat their players.

I don't think that's what he meant, guys.

@OP
Surely there are protocols in place to prevent this from happening. I'm just guessing here, but I really don't think it would be possible for an employee to collect such files (on reputable sites at least).
Aren't hand history requests handled in an automated fashion partly for this exact reason?

I didnt mean the site itself cheating on Customers, or allowing the use of a Superuser account. I ment the ability of a single employee to download certain Hand history files of Users.

The question is how much value do those sites put into this data, and if they even know that having these Hand histories is of large value in high stakes games, even if u only be able to download them in a Month past...