Absolute Poker Scandal: An Inside Job - Page 24

aaronbeen · #**231** 10-16-2007, 05:20 PM

Have you read the pokermachine posts? He made it obvious he was spamming. This guy clearly has no clue yet somehow became CEO of AP hahaha.

comfortably_numb · #**232** 10-16-2007, 05:20 PM

I'm mostly a lurker, but awesome work going on here ! I read all the stuff in all threads - took a while...

I hope everyone who cashes/cashed out will get the money finally. Would be interesting to know if AP or UB need longer as usual to do all the payouts...

pr0crast · #**233** 10-16-2007, 05:21 PM

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Can we be sure he is the only one USING that IP?

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No, we can't. It could be anyone else with access to his home cable modem.

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Do you know that it's his home modem for sure? I know that it is residential, but I don't know for sure it's actually his.

It seems like we've only confirmed that it is:

a) residential (someone told me this) and
b) something he used (you confirmed this in your earlier post)

I think it would be his home, but don't know for sure.

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Check his ISP's TOS. Most of them are going to have a section in there that explicitly forbids a bunch of activities, and if you can prove that he broke the TOS, the ISP might be more willing to divulge info.

pokerstudAA · #**234** 10-16-2007, 05:21 PM

Absolute Poker purchased Ultimate Bet on Oct. 12, 2006. Price was $130 million. $10 million in cash and $120 million in scheduled payments over the next five and a half years.

Bloomberg Canada

Edit: Blast Off Ltd. of Malta - owning company of Absolute Poker.

PartyGirlUK · #**235** 10-16-2007, 05:21 PM

btw do any of you guys know how much AP knew about this when they issued their blanket denials??

N 82 50 24 · #**236** 10-16-2007, 05:21 PM

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lol.

www.rivieraltd.com is no longer accessible.

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http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.rivieraltd.com/

shows no pages found for rivieraltd.com.

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Oh well. It was just an email login. Not like it's important.

STA654 · #**237** 10-16-2007, 05:22 PM

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btw do any of you guys know how much AP knew about this when they issued their blanket denials??

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They probably knew the whole time and were covering for their boss.

ammbo · #**238** 10-16-2007, 05:22 PM

Apparently Scott and Phil are brothers, unless this is a different person:
http://www.google.com/search?q="phil+tom"+"absolute+poker"

Not to play Devil's Advocate here, but it is possible that a residential cable modem is being used at the offices of AP in Costa Rica. It is listed as a residential modem but it may be used by everyone in their offices.

Also, it appears that Phil Tom and maybe Scott Tom know a bit about poker, judging from some of their results. This would make me think that they would not be so stupidly obvious about cheating.

However, if they just undertook a big buyout of UB to take them private and keep them in the US, they may have a cash flow problem and thus decided to cheat.

It is impossible to know these things for sure at this point, so don't rush to judgment.

Clayton · #**239** 10-16-2007, 05:22 PM

<tiltez> clayton, there is no way those are their real names
<tiltez> huge % of people in gaming industry use fake names
<tiltez> or some kind of mix up of their real name

any validity to these claims?

pr0crast · #**240** 10-16-2007, 05:23 PM

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Absolute Poker purchased Ultimate Bet on Oct. 12, 2006. Price was $130 million. $10 million in cash and $120 million in scheduled payments over the next five and a half years.

Bloomberg Canada

Edit: Blast Off Ltd. of Malta - owning company of Absolute Poker.

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LOL, looks like UB is getting screwed here. No way will they get all of those payments now.