I have spent few hours researching what may have triggered this false positive on ongame profiling/fraud detection software, and I think I got a much better picture of what happened.
General infos
For the purpose of the demonstration I finally decided to release my betfair SN and the SN of my opponents (1)
My betfair SN is tylol
Vilain who allegedly chip dumped money to me at $3/6 is sebbec
Vilain who allegedly chip dumped money to me at $5/10 is Eshieksiksi
Both full session can be reviewed directly on ongame site through those link:
$3/6 against sebbec
http://www.pokernetwork.co.uk/games/...earchType=next
$5/10 against Eshieksiksi
http://www.pokernetwork.co.uk/games/...earchType=next
You can find some inaccurate informations (hands are missing) on both players and myself on PTR (as example the amount I won against those opponent is not correct)
Both session took place the 7th of feb 2011 and I got my account locked the next day.
Analysis of sebbec behaviour and history:
His account was fresh from the day, he didnt have any previous play history in cash game on PTR, sharkscope or official poker rankings.
2011-02-07 08:59 he started the day by seating with $379.80 at my HU $3/6 table and losing it in 106 hands against me
2011-02-07 09:40 he sat with 1000$ at a 6max $5/10 table where 1 guy was seated with 350$, 2 regs join the table and sebbec drop 1000$ in 11 hands, almost all of his money is lost to Goosey82 (whose seems legit according to his ptr records, and who by the way didnt get his account locked as he last played 2 days ago) this second session can be seen there (
http://www.pokernetwork.co.uk/games/...hType=previous
=> What looks like a new account drop $379.80 to me in 106 hands of hu (session finish at 09:33 gmt) and then 7 min later (looks like the time it would take to cashin) drop 1000$ in 11 hands (2 to 4 handed) mostly to 1 reg that seems legit and didnt get his account locked (despite receiving 2.5x more money in 10x less hands).
Analysis of Eshieksiksi behaviour and history:
Account is at least 6month old (according to ptr)
PTR:
He looks like a recreational player who play NL25 to NL200 once in a while (no history of playing above $1/2 before our session)
Sharkscope:
Eshieksiksi Sharkscope Buy-ins diagram
http://i.imgur.com/cfJHV.png
Eshieksiksi Sharkscope Graph
http://i.imgur.com/snE8S.png
Eshieksiksi Sharkscope Recent history
http://i.imgur.com/Blkbv.jpg
He usually played low stakes SNG (played 322 5$, 54 $10, 18 20$ staying almost breakeven).
2011-02-05 He decided to move up in stakes and play 3x $50 sngs (1win for $54, 2lost for $-108)
2011-02-07 He decided to move up again in stakes and proceed to play 2* $215 SNG and lost both, last one is lost at 11:34 gmt, its a sick downswing for him according to his graph (haha).
2011-02-07 at 11:36 GMT (2 minutes after losing his last SNG) Eshieksiksi seat for the first time ever at $5/10 HU CG with what is left of his roll and play against me...
=> Recreational player take shot in SNG way above his usual stakes, lose and tilt and then come to my hu table (at stakes he never played before) to finish his bankroll.
Analysis of my own behaviour and history:
According to my tracker it was the first day ever i was playing 3/6 and 5/10 on betfair !
All the $5/10 hands I ever played on betfair were played against Eshieksiksi
All but the 4 fhand of $3/6 were played against sebbec
=> Its very likely that this looked "unusual" and helped to trigger some flags on the heuristic engine of ongame fraud detection software.
For my defense, I have an extensive history of play at $3/6 HU and $5/10 HU on many other sites, including 1750 hands of $3/6 and 138 hands of $5/10 played on another ongame skin last year. I provided those SN to betfair through Mike Haven.
The big picture (my educated guess on what may have happened).
Given his record they are decent chance that sebbec had a dodgy account (stolen credit card or did some chargeback) and that Eshieksiksi was so tilted/destroyed after losing his bankroll that he tried something desesperate ("hey why dont i contact the site to tell them that I got hacked ? so i can recover my funds")
-One or both player behaviour generated some kind of incident/report on ongame fraud detection system.
-As I was a "receiving end" of some funds marked suspicious it triggered some flags on me.
-The fact that I had not much online HU CG history on betfair and that it was the first time I was playing 3/6 and 5/10 there triggered some more flags (which would explain why Goosey82 who received more fund in less hands is still able to play).
-The first hands that betfair staff saw in the report from the ongame fraud detection engine were the last hands of my HU sessions (
http://weaktight.com/3223603 and
http://weaktight.com/3223670 which show tilted ******s finishing their last few big blind by 3bet calling with weaks hands).
-A quick and unprofessional audit by people not familiar with HU play (its really common to have session against fishing ending like that) concluded that those hands were "sick proof" and that I was probably guilty of something (instead of wondering why I would pay 150$ of rake and play 200 hands to receive 750$ of chip dumped funds from people I obviously have no link with).
(1) I expect betfair to provide me a new SN when this story is resolved.
Last edited by unhappyguy; 02-13-2011 at 05:46 PM.
. I know OP and vouch for him for what it's worth : he could be accused of skilled bumhunting for sure, but chipdumping is ridiculous.
