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What about rakeback affiliates? I took AP and UB off my rakeback site but i'm not sure it's the correct decision.

If a client wants to play at AP knowing what has happened, who am I to tell them they can't?

Tuco.

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You can tell them that you don't think they should play there. It's a valid opinion. And you can choose not to list them on your site if you feel that's the right thing to do.

It's all about personal choices, yours for your reasons, and other players who may or may not continue to play at AP or UB for their own reasons.

Personally I think player boycotts, or attacking each other, are pointless exercises. I believe that the only way AP will get punished in any realistic way is if the appropriate authorities get involved. That will come about by players coming up with the evidence, (as they have), and handing it over to the authorities, who actually have the power to press criminal charges. I can't help but think this would be so much easier for Nat et. al. if the PPA would support them.

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You're wrong in all aspects with this answer.

The only way Absolute will suffer and pay for this crime is through financial loss. The players and affiliates are the only enforcers that have power here.

The only reason this story broke was because of LUCK. Someone goofed by sending the xl file and someone else took the time to decipher it. The odds of that happening again are astronomical.

This is a once in a lifetime occurrence. The players and affiliates must force this to a resolution.

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Someone posted volume stats for the past couple weeks, and it appeared that traffic at AP was down about 15%. It seems to me that there are fewer regulars at the AP tables I play on. For most of this year I have played only at AP and even I, someone who thinks that it benefits me personally if AP gets fishier, have started playing some on Stars and Full Tilt, getting in the groove there just in case AP somehow gets unplayable. So they are paying a price, and I think the price will get worse before it gets better for them. I want AP to be stung, but not to death. I think that's the best solution. Say a fifty million dollar hit in their value, that should be sufficient incentive for others to work to avoid cheating. And if they have a permanent decline in traffic of about thirty percent, that's probably a fifty million dollar hit, roughly.