Absolute Poker Scandal: An Inside Job - Page 25

ibluffoldladies · #**241** 10-16-2007, 05:23 PM

I'm so happy that stupid rogue programmer story was shot down. It felt like it was being pushed onto us as another cover.

adanthar · #**242** 10-16-2007, 05:24 PM

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<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?

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pokermachine's 2+2 login name: scottom

Clayton · #**243** 10-16-2007, 05:25 PM

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<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?

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pokermachine's 2+2 login name: scottom

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im still saying that scott tom could not be his real actual name. something to consider.

entertainme · #**244** 10-16-2007, 05:26 PM

This is all incredibly damning and I'd say these guys are going down. Get your money out now peoples!

traxamillion · #**245** 10-16-2007, 05:26 PM

Anybody else appreciate the irony that the same incompetence Scott Tom generated at AP in order to do this in the first place is the same incompetence that ultimately got him caught?

Marnixvdb · #**246** 10-16-2007, 05:26 PM

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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.

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oh man, coke is a hell of a drug

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SL__72 · #**247** 10-16-2007, 05:28 PM

Since my posts about it before assume some knowledge of DNS, here is what happened with rivieraltd.com.

This morning there was a "Mail Exchange" (MX) DNS record for rivieraltd.com that pointed to "mail.rivieraltd.com"

There was an "Address" (A) record for mail.rivieraltd.com pointing to 66.212.244.147.

There was also an A record for rivieraltd.com pointing to 66.212.244.147.

All of those records have since been deleted from the DNS server set as the "Authoritative" DNS server for rivieraltd.com.

That means, this morning, any email or web requests for rivieraltd.com went to 66.212.244.147. Now they should go no where.

Coincidentally, all the domains Nat just posted, along with absolutepoker.com, all use the same DNS servers, hosted by a Toronto hosting company called Colosseum (colosseum.com).

gumpzilla · #**248** 10-16-2007, 05:29 PM

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im still saying that scott tom could not be his real actual name. something to consider.

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Why would this be significant?

traxamillion · #**249** 10-16-2007, 05:29 PM

Also I never thought this could be all that bad for online poker because mass media would never pick it up. But this is lookin Enron status with the CEO of a company making online poker look terrible and I do see that getting into the news.

"Online Poker company CEO steal millions through cheating customers"

admiralfluff · #**250** 10-16-2007, 05:29 PM

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Quote:
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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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It's becomming more and more apparent that Scott Tom is a complete dumbass. It's clear that this was not a solo gig. Based on his actions with the superuser, and everything I have read about him, it is pretty clear that he is a moron. He does not have the tech savvy to set this system up, and certainly not to dismantle it quickly at the first sign of trouble.

One thing that struck me in Dan Druff's post was when he was talking about the different super-user aided accounts focusing on different games. He attributed this to maintaining consistency with past play. I think this is wrong. People change their games all the time. The most likely reason behind this is different people exploiting the super user account, playing their individual games of preference.

AP was founded by a crew of cocky college frat boys friends. This thread contains definitive proof (afaic) that one of them has been exploiting a super user account. There is no substantial proof that the others did as well, but it is by far the most likely case. I don't know who all of these people are, but I'm guessing it would be pretty simple for some of you to put together a list of the most likely guilty parties. I am convinced this is not just one person.