We haven't won yet: latest (10/19) cliff's notes on AP scandal

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Latest from gambling911.com:

http://www.gambling911.com/Absolute-Poker-102007.html

Interesting tidbits:

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An employee responsible for sending out the so-called "smoking gun" spread sheet with confidential client information (as well as the server info of the suspect players leading to Absolute's own server) did so out of "laziness".

"Instead of looking up specific information that had been requested, he could not find this information and simply shot the whole spread sheet to a customer," we were told by an executive at Absolute.

That employee was terminated and Absolute Poker is working to ensure that such an instance never happens again.


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So Absolute is asserting that the spreadsheet releaser was not the same as the "geek".

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Information launched to the customer could potentially have been changed, according to management, though this is something that cannot be ascertained at this juncture in time.


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They're leaving the door open to asserting that the spreadsheet was tampered with, although I think they realize that that is a very tough sell.

And to demonstrate their journalistic objectivity:

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As a side note, our impression of Absolute was that we believed it to be among the most professionally run operations in Costa Rica. This was long before they ever joined Gambling911.com as a sponsor. Our own Jenny Woo visited their office in August 2006


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