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Absolute Poker cheating controversy

Not a day goes by without an accusation from players that poker sites are rigged but in one case it appears that the accusation has some foundation.

Absolute Poker have just been caught with their pants down with one of their top consultants accessing some old unused accounts and having a superuser account also open which shows the players cards at the table. He then contrived to play these accounts and dump chips from one player to another to avoid suspicion and then he went on to win the $1,000 entry fee tournament that he was in. He was only caught when a player at the final table requested a hand history and Absolute accidentally sent him the hand history for every player in the tournament. It was then established that player PotRipper managed to avoid all the accidents that players would get into with big hands vs AA etc. I have to say that at the levels that I would play then the cheating would not be apparent as the guy was going for big stakes. Presumbaly networked site such as Vegas247 also had players affected by the actions of this guy