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Maybe this has been noted here before but it seems important enough not to miss. Looks like Absolute Poker is the first big site to be shown to be rigged. Well that is just an opinion but check it out for yourself:
http://tinyurl.com/37ewbe
Some pretty strong detective work by your fellow 2+2ers. This makes Absolute's Razz hand ranking snafu seem boring.
Patty
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Okay, this post makes it sound like something that broke a month ago is just now making it to the razz forum. But actually some new stuff happened and I read most of the ~500 threads so here are some cliffs notes:
1. Some guy (Potripper) won the $1k on absolute basically seeing everyone's hole cards after maybe a 5-10 minute delay at the start of the tourney.
2. The runner-up got pissed when T-high beat his A/I w/ a 9 high flush draw and requested an HH from AP.
3. AP (accidentally?) sent him some sort of master HH w/ EVERYONE's hole cards showing, ip addresses and e-mails, other stuff maybe?
4. Some people put it into an excel file and looked at it.
5. They came up w/ some ip addresses, e-mails, and real names (adanthar was actually involved w/ this).
6. Someone w/ account number 363 on AP (created very early on) arrives at the table watching and stays there for the whole time. This IP address is from Costa Rica and is (similar/identical?) to the Potripper guy.
6a. This guy is probably telling potripper what to do and/or maybe potripper himself.
7. This is pretty strong evidence AP is cheating internally or someone w/in AP is cheating w/ the superuser account (363).
8. I scoop a 37BB pot in razz so I lose my train of thought here.
9. Everyone loves the people who found this out whose names I can't remember. I know adanthar and nat who owns part of bluff helped a lot.
10.
Superuser 363 T-Shirt
11. Some graph w/ BB/100 and VPIP was displayed w/ someone at like 90% and was supposedly 15 STDEV out from 0. That's like one in eleventy billion.
12. AP has not issued a statement or anything yet.
13. Traffic on AP has not substantially declined since this stuff has been happening.
14. GG Absolute Poker?
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15. Profit (by not playing at Absolute Poker)
-ChipsAhoya