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Originally Posted by PowerTime
Any software experts here who can tell us if this can be a simple rare occurrence or whether it is virtually impossible that it can happen and therefore must have been done purposely by someone? I'm no expert but I just can't see how the software can mess up like that, I've never seen this online in my entire life. And of all the sites it's UB, and all the players it's Phil Hellmuth? Occam's razor would say that Ultimate Bet sucks.
Im a programmer, with 5 years exprience in web development and online game development. I have some comments to this:
1) If indeed it was a rare occurence, then it would seem they already know about a critical flaw in their system and haven't taken steps to correct it. They may say "We've corrected the problem" but i highly doubt it.. and even so, if it was that fast/easy to correct why didn't they before?
2) To me it seems very suspicious that this can occur, and that it even occurs when one of their VIP's is playing. We haven't seen this before, but suddently out of the blue this happens and at a high stakes headsup table with one of their VIP's? Very suspicious indeed... even worse is that a suposed Hold'em Specialist doesn't even seem to care/mind that it happens is even worse, since any low limit fish knows the hand rankings.
My conclusion is that i find it highly proberble that this was not caused by a freak occurence, but rather by an, as yet, unseen form of superuser activity. I base this on a couple of things:
1) The fact that i find it hard to believe flaws like this wouldnt have been spotted long before now, during the billons of hands played on that network.
2) UB's general reputation for superuser activity, and self admittance that such a thing exists within their software and has hold over it. (Stuff like that cant just be eradicated by a few keystrokes, because it's usually deeply embedded in the software. At least in my experience).
3) The fact the subject in question is a 11 time WSOP bracelet winner and all in hold'em iirc, and he doesn't seem to be overly concerned or surprised, or doesnt even seem to stop up for a minute and go "hey, what just happend".
These are my personal views, and its my intial stance on the matter. Should any new evidence come to light to the contrary, im willing to resind my statement..