Absolute Poker Scandal: An Inside Job

[ikestoys]

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Why did he dump rather than xfer if he owns the site?

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Just speculating here, but...

The AP cashier/security staff probably have lists or alerts of any major inter account transfers. Maybe every transfer has to be manually authorized, I dunno - haven't played there.

And as such, perhaps chip dumping was (or was perceived to be) the transfer method least likely to attract attention from uninvolved people within AP.

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the limit on acct transfers are pretty low, like 3k or something

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Also,

"Phil's" Myspace is under the name "prouss1"

Google that and the only result is a poker HH with "prouss1" at the table.

Gotta be him.

[T-God]

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Also,

"Phil's" Myspace is under the name "prouss1"

Google that and the only result is a poker HH with "prouss1" at the table.

Gotta be him.

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You can get 2 of Phillip's myspace blog entries through http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&sa...earch&meta= and clicking on the cached links. Nothing interesting in them, but I dunno, just throwing it out there if anyone wants to check it out.

Seems like none of Phil's friends (that I could find) have Scott on their lists fwiw. Seems odd if they're brothers and co-owners, you'd think they'd be connected on myspace.

[0evg0]

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Also,

"Phil's" Myspace is under the name "prouss1"

Google that and the only result is a poker HH with "prouss1" at the table.

Gotta be him.

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You can get 2 of Phillip's myspace blog entries through http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&sa...earch&meta= and clicking on the cached links. Nothing interesting in them, but I dunno, just throwing it out there if anyone wants to check it out.

Seems like none of Phil's friends (that I could find) have Scott on their lists fwiw. Seems odd if they're brothers and co-owners, you'd think they'd be connected on myspace.

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All I see is the HH from FCP that shows prouss1, I don't see any blog entries.

Can you explain to me how to get there?

[T-God]

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Also,

"Phil's" Myspace is under the name "prouss1"

Google that and the only result is a poker HH with "prouss1" at the table.

Gotta be him.

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You can get 2 of Phillip's myspace blog entries through http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&sa...earch&meta= and clicking on the cached links. Nothing interesting in them, but I dunno, just throwing it out there if anyone wants to check it out.

Seems like none of Phil's friends (that I could find) have Scott on their lists fwiw. Seems odd if they're brothers and co-owners, you'd think they'd be connected on myspace.

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All I see is the HH from FCP that shows prouss1, I don't see any blog entries.

Can you explain to me how to get there?

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I just googled Prouss1, got 3 results, the first two being blog entries, the third being that fcp hand.

Try these:
http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:FGId...lient=firefox-a

http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:gW4Z...lient=firefox-a

[0evg0]

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Also,

"Phil's" Myspace is under the name "prouss1"

Google that and the only result is a poker HH with "prouss1" at the table.

Gotta be him.

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You can get 2 of Phillip's myspace blog entries through http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&sa...earch&meta= and clicking on the cached links. Nothing interesting in them, but I dunno, just throwing it out there if anyone wants to check it out.

Seems like none of Phil's friends (that I could find) have Scott on their lists fwiw. Seems odd if they're brothers and co-owners, you'd think they'd be connected on myspace.

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All I see is the HH from FCP that shows prouss1, I don't see any blog entries.

Can you explain to me how to get there?

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I just googled Prouss1, got 3 results, the first two being blog entries, the third being that fcp hand.

Try these:
http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:FGId...lient=firefox-a

http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:gW4Z...lient=firefox-a

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Two things:

-This is clearly Philip Tom as he mentions playing poker in Atlantis.

-He apparently does live in Canton, MD* despite a number of people telling me it's just not likely including someone who lives in the area.

*The sidebar of information on the blogs lists:

Gender: Male
Status: Single
Age: 31
Sign: Virgo

City: Canton
State: Maryland
Country: US

Signup Date: 03/15/06

[jhill3535]

FWIW, both Myspace accounts for Scott and Philip that are shown above are linked as friends list of Mark Seif.

Scott is on Page 11 and Philip is on Page 7

Mark Seif's MySpace Friends

I am not saying that these are definately the right people just that both of those profiles that have been listed previously are 2 of the 648 friends on Mark Seif's list.

[MrTimCaum]

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FWIW, both Myspace accounts for Scott and Philip that are shown above are linked as friends list of Mark Seif.

Scott is on Page 11 and Philip is on Page 7

Mark Seif's MySpace Friends

I am not saying that these are definately the right people just that both of those profiles that have been listed previously are 2 of the 648 friends on Mark Seif's list.

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nice find, dont know why no one thought to check out seif's friend list earlier

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FWIW, both Myspace accounts for Scott and Philip that are shown above are linked as friends list of Mark Seif.

Scott is on Page 11 and Philip is on Page 7

Mark Seif's MySpace Friends

I am not saying that these are definately the right people just that both of those profiles that have been listed previously are 2 of the 648 friends on Mark Seif's list.

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nice find

[Azizal]

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Why did he dump rather than xfer if he owns the site?

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Just speculating here, but...

The AP cashier/security staff probably have lists or alerts of any major inter account transfers. Maybe every transfer has to be manually authorized, I dunno - haven't played there.

And as such, perhaps chip dumping was (or was perceived to be) the transfer method least likely to attract attention from uninvolved people within AP.

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the limit on acct transfers are pretty low, like 3k or something

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2.5k.. at least that's the most my account has ever been able to ship. Transfers do not go through automatically like they do on many sites, and the time it takes varies quite a bit so it seems likely there is some sort of human based approval process.