[Python49]

Bad news though is that the site realistically could just continue denying all accusations and survive just fine. If they admit that upper executives were involved in a huge cheating scandal then this will reach mass media outlets as actual confirmation of cheating. This would have a bigger likelihood of scaring off fish and ruining the site than if they were to just keep denying accusations and claim no wrongdoing to keep the story from blowing up (with admitted guilt rather than circumstantial evidence to people outside of poker). Since the average fish/joe won't be aware of why the evidence collected on 2p2 is so incriminating, they will just write it off as lacking credibility. Who would the general public believe more, the website or random posters on the internet.

They will be able to get away with this too because if they manage to keep the general public/fish under wraps then they keep the fish pool which ensures the regulars/multi tablers/pros to stay at the site too. You don't actually believe that a site with complete fish will be sharkless do you? I mean look at Iketoys. If there are fish, there will be sharks, so they will be making the decision thats in the best interest of keeping their fish/averages players because in keeping those, they keep the pros.

For them to openly admit the site was compromised well now fish have heard from the horses mouth that there was cheating going on and won't play, and obviously the regulars won't either.

That's just the reality of the situation IMO even though there's nothing i'd love more than to see the truth brought out and AP admit to what really went on. I would also love to be proved wrong in that if AP were to try to sweep this under the rug it would not salvage their business moreso than doing the right thing, coming clean, apologizing and ensuring to fix their security leaks.