Absolute Poker Scandal: An Inside Job

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"Absolute Poker reserves the right to pursue any and all remedies whether in law or equitable which may procure to it as a result of any unlawful and injurious actions taken by any individuals who may have falsified any information, documents, files, or have by other means attempted to disparage and/or harm Absolute Poker, its Players, its current or former management, employees, business partners or affiliates."

Disturbing paragraph there at the end.

The above is a threat meant to scare people away from getting involved in this.

They're basically saying that they'll sue you if you harm their reputation at all. Even worse is the phrase, "Absolute Poker reserves the right to pursue any and all remedies whether in law or equitable", which seems to imply that they are reserving the right to find other ways to punish you if they can't sue you. That's what I presume the "equitable" part refers to. This might mean that they are now reserving the right to freeze your AP account and steal your funds if they determine you have "damaged" their oh-so-clean rep.


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Just thought I would step in and clarify this - ‘Equitable’ in the email from Absolute refers to a legal concept that has no relation to any ordinary usage of the word ‘equity.’ In a nutshell, ‘equity’ is a parallel jurisdiction that historically operated separately to the common law [the general law], but now in most jurisdictions is more or less assimilated into the general law. Equitable remedies include powerful litigation remedies like injunction, and estoppel.

The use of the word 'equitable' is nothing sinister in itself, just stock standard legal jargon.

They do however seem to be hinting at possible legal action, should documents have been falsified, or allegations be unfounded etc.