UltimateBet responds to cheating allegations
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UltimateBet released a press release today concerning allegations that one of its members, “NioNio” may have been cheating in some way while playing on the site. There are also rumors about other players.
In a statement that was released on 2+2, UltimateBet talks about the allegations:
On January 12, 2008, UltimateBet says it “was alerted to allegations that a player with the online handle “NioNio” exhibited abnormally high winning statistics and was accused of having an unfair advantage during play. These allegations were made both directly to UltimateBet by concerned players and the KGC (Kahnawake Gaming Commission), and indirectly through several web forums. The allegations also included reports of suspicious activity concerning the deletion of the NioNio account and other accounts that may have been related to this scheme.
We immediately launched an extensive inquiry involving an independent third-party expert to review hundreds of thousands of hand histories, all of which were promptly locked down and made available to this expert. The initial findings of our third-party expert confirm that the NioNio account’s winning statistics were indeed abnormal, and we have expanded the investigation to look into whether an unfair advantage existed, how such a scheme might have been perpetrated, and whether additional accounts beyond those of NioNio were involved.
UltimateBet is now controlled by the same company as Absolute Poker, where a cheating scandal was uncovered last year.
NioNio largely played cash ring games before his account became inactive on the site, and some estimate the player won hundreds of thousands of dollars.
The investigation is not yet complete, so it’s not yet known if this is another “superuser” scandal that could have huge repercussions for UB.
Full story on pokerkingblog.com here.
