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Originally Posted by 1loNgGr1ND
Wow Sam1Chips and spw there sure seems to be a lot of chip dumping going on at 4nl. That sure is a lot of effort to empty an account, $4 at a time. Give me a break. Did you conspiracy theorists give any thought to the fact that some players don't even know the fundamentals of poker, especially at the lowest stakes, and make plays that make no sense. Go back to watching Ancient Aliens geniuses.
...really?
Please look at my posts (Post 81 and 82). Both of these tables are attended by five players with the user name "FIRSTNAME LASTNAME" (that seems decently weird itself, no? How many tables do you sit at where a player has their username as their actual name, with a space in the middle of it?), and the sixth player being THE SAME PERSON. The players show up at a table for one hand, where all of the players with usernames "firstname lastname" call off for $1.96 of their $2 stack preflop, and then fold for their remaining $0.04 preflop. Then the table breaks, and everyone leaves.
Now, which choice do you think is more likely?
1. Players are fraudulently abusing the free $2 SC promo, and attempting to either steal funds from the site, grow a bankroll to be able to play higher stakes, or grow a bankroll to be able to dump to a larger account.
2. Some players don't know the fundamentals of poker, especially at the lower stakes, and make plays that make no sense.
There are obviously plenty of bad plays at 4nl. If you can't tell the difference between the hand histories that are being posted here and the standard bad plays that happen at a regular 4nl table, then I don't think there is anything else to say.
fyi - I have never heard of Ancient Aliens...is it good?
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Originally Posted by StaYSMacKed
Agreed this is a lot of time these guys spend just watching for chip dumping. Do you guys even play poker? Let Global take care of the monitoring.
It's not as much time as you would think...you can have 3 tables loaded and still keep the lobby loaded, waiting for another table to open up (with the intention of finding a 4th table to sit at, for YOU to PLAY POKER). Then you see a game start, with a bunch of people sitting down effectively at once. You have the table open and realize that the table just went from 0 people to 6 people in 10 seconds, then you witness the hand (which look similar to each one of the hand histories that are posted above), then the table breaks. The only other extra effort is really copying and pasting the hh.
(At least that is the basic process of how I stumbled upon this happening. As spw has found a lot more than me, they can add their process if they wish).
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Now, as for WHY the people are posting these hand histories...
1. Global obviously appreciates it, as they often say:
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Originally Posted by GlobalPokerCSadmin
Thanks BGnight, have forwarded this onto our security team for actioning.
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Originally Posted by GlobalPokerCSadmin
Thanks spw - have passed this on!
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Originally Posted by GlobalPokerCSadmin
Thank you, these have all been forwarded to the security team for actioning
2. (as has already been determined in the thread...)
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Originally Posted by Tapirboy
There's a long, long, long, long history of people doing this to empty out hacked accounts, which we obviously have reason to discourage.
If you decide to turn a blind eye to
this situation and say "oh it's just a bunch of tools trying to defraud the free $2 SC promo, whatever..." that would open up the door to empty a hacked account $2 at a time, while everyone is turning a blind eye to it.
I realize
that seems a bit more of a conspiracy theory, but it doesn't seem like a big deal to try to nip the problem in the bud, especially while it doesn't take a lot of time or effort for the people that are already in that environment to do it.
Last edited by sam1chips; 11-27-2017 at 11:49 AM.