[ChrisV]

David there are a few innacuracies in your post:

- The IP of the observer belonged to Scott Tom (former owner of AP) while at least one of the cheating accounts belonged to his friend AJ Green. The "consultant" AP is referring to is Green. It is extremely probable both were involved.

- The excel file with the additional hand histories, etc, wasn't uncovered until a lot of other evidence had been gone over, multiple denials from AP, etc.

- The initial denials from AP were reportedly issued by one or more of the cheaters, so whether AP showed data to their "engineers" is moot.

Also:

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6. The play of the winner made it so outlandishly obvious that he could see cards that one would think that he was hoping to get caught. Perhaps to discredit AP, perhaps for other reasons. If that wasn't the case, the guy had to be either an idiot or high on something. Because if he was just a poker cheat, he stood to win millions if he was less obvious about knowing the hole cards.

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Here you are making the assumption that the cheater(s) weren't on a clock. It's possible they knew their exploitation of the security hole would be quickly discovered and/or blocked.