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Strange Activity Right Now
Look at the HU tables lobby
There are dozens of tables with players away. Hypers running for 30 mins.
Something odd is happening
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why would one player play 20 HUSNG against 10 other individuals and sit out in them all, and have the opponent sit out too?
why would each game last 30 mins without any player intervening?
there was one particular player in every game.
Hi Rob,
I've no idea, but I've sent the thread upstairs.
Thanks for the, err, heads up.
15 new games running now.... 4 new opponents
can we use sharkie for complimenting players?
Wins: 341
Count: 362
Don’t worry is almost over
hope that £1000 is going to a good cause
one particular player wins nearly all games.
opponents are real skypoker accounts yet do not appear to have played any games or mtt
bunch of three games against a new player every ten minutes.
is this to get all the new player bonuses?
i counted 18 new players... but i have no idea what was happening before i noticed.
the scale of this scam must have been quite significant. he carried on after these figures. say 500 games at an average of £4 this was skypoker being taken for £2,000. had he got away with it.
was this a consequence of no longer requiring a deposit and giving a £10 bonus to new players who open an account?
I try to answer all reasonable questions, but I honestly don't know the answer to this one, & I doubt the Office would tell me even if I asked, as it might compromise certain situations & procedures, & anyway, it's none of my business as it's outwith my remit.
Not referring to yesterday's events, but the "backstop" is withdrawing the money from the site, which would be a big problem. The "activity profile" would certainly have trigger automatic alarms I imagine.
I have to say, too, that I'd very much doubt Sky Poker will reply or comment as to what steps they take to monitor & police these sort of things. People try all sorts of things, all the time, & there are various systems in place to deal with them. It's not just Sky Poker, it's all of SB&G, which is a very big outfit which handles huge amounts of accounts & transactions. Doubt they are going to tell you or me how they combat such things, it'd kind of give the game away.
hi tikay,
i understand if no news is released. i am certain that there are big men with ferocious rotweillers in the fraud department.
I took a photo of them last time I was in Leeds.
Pardon the de-rail, but about 12 years ago, Thewy gave me the tape of "Reservoir Dogs" as a Christmas or Birthday present.
I sat down to watch it one night, but had to turn it off when it got to the bit where the policeman's ear was about to be sliced off, I was too squeamish to watch it. I tried several times since, but I just can't bear to see it.
He gave me "Pulp Fiction", too, which I loved, & watched many many times. Just as violent, I suppose, but the violence was so much more clinical, "bang bang you are dead" sort of thing.
Weird how the mind works. Shooting a guy brown bread 6 times at point blank range is ok, slicing his ear off, not so much.
it's is funny that you turn the dvd off just before the ear slicing. because, if i recall correctly, you dont see a thing as the camera pans away from the scene.
its all in your mind. its only ever been in your mind. if you watch it now you will probably be underwhelmed. or less whelmed.
reservoir dogs and pulp fiction are superb.
but the best film ever is Robin Williams and Jeff Bridges in "The Fisher King". You have to watch it, you'd love it. With the lines, "I just want to pay a fine and go home." and, "Is it OK to be sad now?"
LOVED Pulp Fiction, even though I've not seen 10 films in my life. OK, 20 maybe, absolute tops.
Will have a look for "The Fisher King", but to be honest, I pretty much only watch wildlife Docs & Sport these days. The "Wild" Series on Nat Geo is the best wildlife & nature stuff I've ever seen, better even than David Attenborough's stuff.
I agree, the mind is such a strange & wonderful thing.
If I may ask, how is George these days?
(#seriousface)
yes, he's doing fine thanks.
somehow, I have linked films to people in my life. "The Fisher King" and "Life is Beautiful" are the two films about him. "Amelie" is my daughter.
Anyway, enough of this nonsense.