Update: Additional evidence uncovered in Absolute Poker cheating scandal
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Allegations regarding cheating at Absolute Poker, which ran rampant a few weeks ago before dying down, have resurfaced this weekend with the apparent revelation of new evidence that, if validated, makes a fairly damning case against the integrity of the room.
The evidence in question was announced in a thread on Pocket Fives. The short of it: a player on Absolute, (CRAZYMARCO) who lost a heads up match for a $1000 buy in MTT win to an account (POTRIPPER) suspected of cheating, became suspicious following some insanely unorthodox play by his opponent. Marco emailed Absolute support and requested the hand history for the tournament. What he supposedly received was something much different than a standard hand history. From the Pocket Fives thread:
ok so after Marco loses HU in the 1k to potripper (when potripper called his huge all in raise on the turn with T high, Marco had a 9 high flush draw) and reads a few posts suggesting foul play in the coming days, he requests the HH from Absolute… they sent him the HH for the tourny in a scrambled excel file, which he didn’t really know how to organize and just kind of put off for awhile… well we are just now looking at the HH again, and it’s pretty fucked up cuz Absolute gave Marco access to EVERYONE’s hole cards for the entire tourny, not just his or his tables but the entire field…
It’s important to note that at this point the story hasn’t been confirmed by any independent sources; no one (to our knowledge) has had access to this spreadsheet or confirmed its contents, and it would be difficult at best to definitively prove that the data came from Absolute.
We’ll continue with updates as they arise.
