Online Poker is SO Rigged
Posted by TFG on 17th October 2007
And it looks like it’s rigged by the owners:
So the poker detectives turned their attention to this observer. They traced the observer’s IP address and account name to the same set of servers that host Absolute Poker, and also, apparently, to a particular individual named Scott Tom, who seems to be a part-owner of Absolute Poker! If all of this is correct, it shows exactly how the cheating would have transpired: an insider at the Web site had real-time access to all of the hole cards (it is not hard to believe that this capability would exist) and was relaying this information to an outside accomplice.
That’s pretty frightening, don’t you think? Online poker is about the only option I have for serious play, and I’m not even a serious player — a foray into 5/10 is about as serious as I’ll go, and that only happens a couple of times a year. How about those Swedes and Norwegians gambling it up at the 500/1000 tables? Regardless, if you’re old, fat and non-balding like me, I need the online games to keep sharp, in case the circumstances arise for a real game.
Well, Absolute was one of those that floated around a little bit, and never really struck my fancy. I recall they had plenty of prop players or maybe even bots. ‘Tumbleweeds rolling past the tables’ kind of place. The fact that they still exist and had players to rip off speaks volumes about the popularity of poker, period.
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