Absolute Poker Scandal: An Inside Job

[coltranedog]

I have some intimate knowledge of the KGC, I was involved in a site was hosted out of Kahnawake Mohawk Territory and was (still is) licensed by the KGC. There are 1000's of sportsbooks/poker rooms or casinos that are hosted or have servers located in Kahnawake Mohawk Territory.

I actually worked in an office that was located in Kahnawake and spent 3 years making the trek from Montreal to Kahnawake to do work at the office that was located in the Plaza where a few of the internet sites do customer service or run their operations.

Pretty much every big poker site or casino at leasts co-locates their servers in Kahnawake because of its location. Sites that are hosted in KGC must have a gaming license before they can locate at Mohawk Internet Technologies, (MIT). The reason you are seeing the Mohawk.ca domain attached to the superuser is because Absolute likely has their mail server at MIT (in kahnawake) and it kind implicitly guarantees that this whole thing was an inside job.

If there was any doubt before that someone from absolute whether it was an employee or owner, was involved in this cheating operation. I think that doubt has been removed now.

I can also categorically state that the KGC in no way has any ownership interest in Absolute Poker, I don't think they do a very good job of policing their license holders, but its not because they are crooked or own pieces of the sites. They just have far too many sites operating out of MIT and can't possibly keep up with the workload.

I'd also like to add that Scott Huff and I are doing a weekly radio show at Barry Greenstein and Joe Sebok's site(thepokerroad) and will be covering this topic. If anyone has some intimate knowledge or if Nat or whomever would like to come on the show PM me.

Haralabos

[STA654]

I'll never be able to study for my mid term with all this excitment!

[traxamillion]

LOL obv answer nat is to make a gimmick account with new info or send it to someone who doesn't care. I'd like to see some punk rock Costa Ricans try to [censored] with me

[traxamillion]

i also think the fact that graycat blinded out in the 1k is a pretty big deal.

[HSB]

Has anyone who has final tabled a tourney at Absolute recently gone back and requested the same info for their tourney? In particular, ones that happened shortly before this explosion.

Who's to say this wasn't going on more discretely previously?

[ammbo]

We need a volunteer to conduct covert ops as an undercover intern. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to infiltrate the enemy headquarters and blog about it:

http://www.pokerinternships.com/

[adanthar]

Exciting implications incoming:

If you guys remember, there were two people watching Potripper's table. One is #363; the other is assumed to be Potripper. That second account's email address is scott@rivieraltd.com.

I have talked to a lot of people around the poker world about the IP address used by #363 and the rivieraltd.com email. The IP address cross-references to someone named Scott Tom, who also appears to be an owner at AP. It should also be noted that the first part of the rivieraltd.com email is "scott@".

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[johnnypokeher]

sweet jesus

[PartyGirlUK]

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Exciting implications incoming:

If you guys remember, there were two people watching Potripper's table. One is #363; the other is assumed to be Potripper. That second account's email address is scott@rivieraltd.com.

Assuming "Scott" [or, at any rate, someone using his account at his IP] was our man, I pulled some strings and got that IP cross-referenced amongst some poker sites.

A match was found.

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wait so it's the person who posted the comment or the blogger or who?

[adanthar]

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Exciting implications incoming:

If you guys remember, there were two people watching Potripper's table. One is #363; the other is assumed to be Potripper. That second account's email address is scott@rivieraltd.com.

Assuming "Scott" [or, at any rate, someone using his account at his IP] was our man, I pulled some strings and got that IP cross-referenced amongst some poker sites.

A match was found.

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wait so it's the person who posted the comment or the blogger or who?

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argh you're #3 to do this, okay I'll spell it out [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

look at that blog's first entry carefully...

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These are just some of the people I interacted with, partied with, or was in awe of: Amir Vahedi,Chip & Karina Jett, Layne Flack, Kristy Gazes, Scotty Nguyen, Men "The Master", Andy Bloch, Ted Forest, Mike Laing, John Phan, and both CEO and owners of Absolute Poker, Phil & Scott Tom.

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