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Originally Posted by LasFuentes
Hey, MT2R, I always saw you around here but never knew your story, some crazy stuff. Just started reading after seeing your last post.
Seeing that you worked at Stars security, I have a question. I used to play high stakes HU sngs across all sites up until early 2016 or so, although I prob had the lowest volume at stars. But seeing as these games were by far the worst affected from cheating from players who used RTA, and as such affected me personally a lot (even had a prop bet vs. a guy from a German bot ring , where I think they all got banned in the last 2 years, which I lost, but that was mostly due to running bad and not playing very well, not sure if he actually used RTA), I was wondering if you knew, to what extent stars was monitoring these issues at the time. That is users using bots/GTO software in real time.
Say in between 2014-2017 or so, did they have any idea the extent to which this was going on, and how good do you think you guys were at catching these type of people? I.e. the ones using RTA in any game, not colluders or things like that. Did anything ever happen to these people outside of getting accounts closed/money confiscated, like getting blacklisted from Stars live events/casinos etc.?
Do you think the stars security team was very competent/have enough resources to deal with the vast majority of cheating etc. or would a lot of such things pass under the radar most of the time (unless there were some people who sent in evidence like the disgruntled cartel member thread in NVG).
Do you think that going forward, security will be more lax and cheating issues will be more commonplace, i.e. more lax security now that it seems they have budget cut that department? Or is stars reputation enough of a deterrant to prevent the majority of these incidents.
Not sure if you can even talk about these issues, but would be cool if you can give some info on it.
I cannot talk about, well, basically, any of it. I've read over my agreements and I guess I can say positive things about the company, so it looks like I'll be staying silent.
Bots were the one area in Game Integrity where I did almost no work. I did collusion investigations, multi-accounting, following the money trail on hacked accounts (use double factor authentication please people) hoping to get back what we could and make it inconvenient for hackers, and cases of grimming/blind manipulation. I do know things but I cannot disclose anything that isn't public. Parts of me want to see that company burned to ashes but other parts of me think they'll sue over everything and anything (even if it would be mutually assured destruction). Good people were working on the things you mentioned. Whether enough was/is being done is in the eye of the beholder. As far as I know/was told to me, budget for RTA/bot type stuff is not decreased. Director of department gave some public access before I was let go and said as much. Re-allocation of resources toward those bigger concerns you mentioned. Disheartening they didn't ask me to do those roles or ask me to move to NJ as they hired people to do my exact job there when I had ~9 years of kicking ass, but so it goes.
I think online poker will be dead in the near future. RTAs/solvers/etc will be too good and widely available for a cheap enough price. It will become like online chess. So, not dead, but not what it was.
Last edited by MyTurn2Raise; 02-27-2020 at 01:22 PM.