http://www.gambling911.com/Absolute-Poker-101907.html

Wow. From the article:

Absolute Poker on Friday morning admitted an "internal breach" following accusations from the online poker community that a company "employee" had been able to see other players whole cards.

This goes well beyond partial cards - that's even more blatant!

lol

about time...

Not only can they see the front of your card, but the back of it as well!

Does this site have editors?

I hear that all players who lost money will be made hole.

+1

"Players who were affected by this unfortunately situation will be paid in full,"

It's on yahoo too:

yahoo AP link

They link to 2p2 in their article...

that's an old article. He mentioned that AP had not released a statement or admitted anything had happened. The article was from Thursday, the statement came on Friday.

My bad. You're correct.

Am I still the moron for thinking there is something not real with online poker, or .... wait a minute was I right.

I wonder how all the idiots who were defending the integrity of the online poker companies so strongly feel now. This is not a 1 site thing, I am sure this is going on at all sites, just some do it more discretely and in different fashions. I told you there is to much money out there for them to settle for just 5% of the pot.

I told you so

Your ever-present 'Pokerstars is rigged' threads are not vindicated because of the cheats at Absolute. One of the most adamant 'idiots' to which you refer is Josem, a poster who when presented with actual evidence, as in the Absolute case, was rabid in his pursuit of the cheats.

Your contentions always consisted of mere possibilities, deriving from your inability to win on Pokerstars(I can't win I must be being cheated!). Having played with you for a bit, the fact is your skill level is insufficient to beat the online game for any serious money. I feel confident in saying this because your skill level I have observed(admittedly rarely lately) is very much what my own was in the not too distant past. And guess what. I didn't make squat either. This Absolute scandal sucks, and is disturbing, but the fact there are cheats in the world does not make Pokerstars one of them. Study hard and improve, and stop focusing on a scapegoat for your inability to win on Stars.

Instead of "I told you so!"

Try reading the complete story first, then, if you still want to comment, you'll have all the facts to at least make an intelligent comment!

This is NOT just another "online poker is rigged" story....

The complete story is posted in BBV, take the three or four hours to absorb it!

Lvled lol

You must be so annoyed you play at Stars not AP. Typical of your luck.

They would never risk it, they have to much too lose. lol

Its poker, you have to go with your gut instincts sometimes.

Here's a blog on this story by Freakonomics author Steven Levitt from the NY Times.


Link

that freakonomics article is also an old one and also pre-dates Absolute's admission of what happened. Some of the info is dated including the implication of Scott Tom in that article...who AP now says was merely the guy who was 'set up' by the actual guy who did it.

It was a good article, just letting people know that quite a bit has happened since Oct 17 including AP's admission on Oct 19.

The MSNBC article has more current info than the yahoo and freakonomics articles.

From last summer I have believed AP's blackjack was rigged (I am serious), but that's another story for another day and I don't have concrete #'s to back it up, although a lousy weekend of experience of a loss I'd love to forget.

Actually Bob, that information is now dated as well, as the new statement that AP seems set to air seems to implicate Scott Tom after all. (See Current AP thread).

my reading of this is that AP is only focused on the one tournament in question. Is there any info that they're going to check for additional incidents and make good on those too?

Reading the comments of the yahoo link makes me life tilt...