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David- to help get the timeline down a bit more precisely...

The accusations and some evidence that there was cheating going on precedes the hand history being unearthed/scrutinized by Marco, Waco, Nat, Snags, etc.
Marco may have requested it shortly after the tourney- but nobody had any idea of what it contained until weeks later- long after the threads that involved the poker tracker shots of other sessions with unreal river aggression factors and win rates were burning up BBV.

The initial accusations about the super using came about after piecing together files from players in the tournaments- along with cash game hand histories from the various cheating accounts against 2+2ers and P5ers.

Absolute went into denial mode despite clear evidence of dumping sessions between the suspect accounts.
They continued to deny possible cheating while Josem put together his plot of how outrageous the poker tracker shots of the sessions looked.
They said it was impossible for any person to know the hole cards to be able to use to their advantage during play.

The Marco file comes to light later when he takes a second look at it weeks after getting it. (IIRC)

Absolute had been denying it prior to that though.

It was also obvious prior to that file coming to light there was cheating going on.

The file simply made it impossible for them to continue to deny it.

Not that they still didn't try.