A speculation thread for the OLD SCHOOL APers please

[Schneids]

I have played on Absolute for quite a long time, and over the course of my play on that site, I seem to vaguely recall several different instances of a random donk showing up for a few weeks at a time, playing seemingly awful, yet winning more consistently than not... and then a few weeks later, never seeing the guy again.

I am not at all saying that ANY of these instances were anything, nor do I really want to start a witch hunt. However, I think a thread should be started for some of us to comb through our old databases to see if we notice any names with suspicious looking stats/wins -- be it LHE, or NLHE.

The reason for this is obviously a simple one: We have no clue how long the cheating has been going on, and, unless we are able to name specific names, it's doubtful AP is going to voluntarily say, "oh hey guys, we actually discovered this has been going on for two years, we owe a lot of you a LOT of money."

I hope that making this effort will amount to nothing. I just want us to at the least, be on the look out. Also, ideally, it would be good to have a list of 'suspicious names' just in case Nat or somebody actually gets free reign in contributing to an investigation.


I'm hoping some of the guys who have been around AP for awhile can help me think of some of these guys -- I know with several of you 2p2ers a few years ago we'd always chat on IM and be like "kad;fkad;sfj is SO BAD, how does he keep on winning?!?"


I have found a few names now that have stats that are going to make me take a deeper look at their hands. I'll report back soon.