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Originally Posted by MCAChiTown
This a quote from your website Professional Rakeback in the Chico Network Sites & Review section:
"Many poker sites are accused of allowing collusion, bots, and all sorts of other offenses. It is not surprising that some players feel this way given past issues with sites like Absolute Poker and Ultimate Bet having insider cheating scandals. However, the Chico Network actively searches for collusion and botting networks and shuts them down."
Any comment on that?
Sure, I'll comment on that. They have an active security team investigating bots and trying to remove them. I have even helped them with this matter on numerous occasions. We have written about some of those instances in fact.
WRT to any existing bots on site, they actually reached out to us again in late Novemember/early December about this topic. We provided them some internal information we have been gathering insofar as tracking where botter traffic comes from. We also helped provide them with contact information to a third party which we think can help streamline their efforts in rooting out bots.
FWIW, this is something we have done for multiple sites in years past. I personally have served as an "expert witness" in helping determine collusion and botting in fixed limit holdem games.
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Originally Posted by Fossilkid93
I would take anything Kahn says with a couple sacks full of salt. He was still directing people to Full Flush Poker months after it was obvious they were going under and pretty much all regs had stopped playing there. He was buying people's balances for 30 cents on the $1, while at the same time trying to get more sign-ups via his site. Stand up guy that Kahn.
I would take anything you say with a couple sacks of salt.
I was buying player balances because I believed in Equity Poker Network. I did not seek out players in a predatory manner to buy these balances from. Someone, on this forum no less, challenged me to put my money where my mouth was and buy his balance. He specified the rate in public debate. I accepted. Others came forward and I accepted some of them as well. I purchased their debt because I thought it was a +EV move. Ultimately, I lost money just like everyone else when EPN disappeared.
Sometimes businesses fail and people lose money. In all the years our website has been active, over 70 poker sites have gone under. How many of them did we promote and did our customers lose out on? Exactly two. Pokes Poker in 2006 and Full Flush in 2016. I personally lost money on both of those sites because we do not promote sites that we don't use ourselves. And as far as our EPN customers go, we reached out to every single customer we could and offered them a way to recoup their lost funds on other rooms - a few of those people even posted right here on 2+2 saying as much. The first site that went under in 2006, Pokes, I paid our players $37,000 in unpaid rakeback out of my own pocket. I am not the evil ******* you make me out to be.
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Originally Posted by Fossilkid93
Kinda shocking he is still allowed to hang around here, but whatever.
I have been an active member of the online poker community since the early 2000's. I have consulted with and helped improve the games and situations at probably every single network you play on. I freely spend my time on a dozen public forums where I am not allowed to promote our business/gain nothing financially to keep the fish flowing into online poker and keep this game I love alive. I have correctly called out 5x as many sites for fraud as I have succumb to.
I am not perfect, no one is, but I belong here as much or more so than you do.
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Kahn
(decided to respond to Fossilkid93's blah blah for once)
Last edited by Mike Haven; 01-23-2018 at 01:25 PM.