[admiralfluff]

People are making several judgement mistakes here.

1. This is not an isolated incident. There has been cheating in the past, there will be cheating in the future. Whatever the outcome is here, this statement is true. What we can do, and need to do, is take the course of action that minimizes the longterm cost of high stakes cheating. I believe this requires some admition from Absolute of a security breach. Allowing them to deny the cheating won't discourage future cheating, and may actually encourage it.

2. Absolute can survive either way. It is not painfully obvious to everyone there was cheating based on the video, or any hand histories. It is obvious to reasonable poker players, but fyi, the world isn't filled with reasonable poker players. There are plenty of fish who play there who are convinced the site is rigged, yet they play anyways. If Absolute admits to a security breach, and claims to have taken action to fix it, they will continue to play there. If they do not admit to a breach, Absolute will not go down in flames. There will be some converage, they will lose a significant portion of their clients, but they will continue to survive.

I mkae a living from the constant flow of money entering the pokonomy, which is generated by generally stupid people. This is also where Absolute makes their money, but some people tried to make extra by cutting into our take as well. This will never stop completely, but more blame and cost for Absolute in this case will lower how much of our edge cheaters attempt to take in the future.