how can we trust online poker after the whole POTRIPPER thing?

lance1979

Am not a big fan of online poker anymore after seeing the story from Absolute Poker. An ex member of staff hacked in to the site and could see all the cards at his table.

This fella only got caught because he got greedy, How can we be sure this is not going on on every site and the peoply cheating are just making a nice little income of £200-£300 a day not to get caught?

Supa_Phil

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Am not a big fan of online poker anymore after seeing the story from Absolute Poker. An ex member of staff hacked in to the site and could see all the cards at his table. This fella only got caught because he got greedy, How can we be sure this is not going on on every site and the peoply cheating are just making a nice little income of £200-£300 a day not to get caught?
Posted by lance1979

Got a link to this story?

bullyfish

i think it is open to abuse but tikay has assured sky is very safe      i would hope if someone was winning ALL the time this would start alarm bells ringing somewhere

VIRUSXXX

That news article is very old. One of the great things that came about because of that scam was the fact that

a) every site was forced to check and tighten all of their security
b) it was forums like this that were instrumental in the perps downfall.

lance1979

If I was potripper i would of lost more hands than i won, but just making sure you was losing small hands and just winning enough to keep you in profit. and a few times a month lose big. but over the year be up £30k or £40k. rather than winning $7000000 in less than a year. 

  Am convinced people are doing this on a lot of sites, just making a nice little wage out of it. 

Tikay10

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[QUOTE]That news article is very old. One of the great things that came about because of that scam was the fact that a) every site was forced to check and tighten all of their security b) it was forums like this that were instrumental in the perps downfall.
Posted by VIRUSXXX

It was about 3 years ago, I believe.

IAMALLIN2

I think Richard Orfords been using it
He must have, loosing 15 sit and goes in a row! CMON
The law of averages say he should have won one
LOL

bonniedog

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i think it is open to abuse but tikay has assured sky is very safe      i would hope if someone was winning ALL the time this would start alarm bells ringing somewhere
Posted by bullyfish

Just because someone wins all time does not mean they cheat.

BigBluster

There was also an incident on a well-known site where the site itself got hosed for some serious money. I don't think this has been well-publicised either.

Usually when there are multiple people all-in, if two players get eliminated at the same time whoever had the most chips would be deemed to be placed higher. But what if the people eliminated had exactly the same amount of chips?

Playing £50 sng's, all 6 players went all-in on the first hand. Whoever won was given £225, and since the others all came joint second, they were all given the 2nd place prize money of £75! These same 6 guys just kept registering and registering, going all-in on the first hand, then emptied their accounts after a day. Every single game they put down £300 and took £600 from the table, the cards were completely irrelevant. They played hundreds of games.

For anyone considering trying it, they've changed the software now! The other 5 players now get the £75 2nd place money shared between them.

Tikay10

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There was also an incident on a well-known site where the site itself got hosed for some serious money. I don't think this has been well-publicised either. Usually when there are multiple people all-in, if two players get eliminated at the same time whoever had the most chips would be deemed to be placed higher. But what if the people eliminated had exactly the same amount of chips? Playing £50 sng's, all 6 players went all-in on the first hand. Whoever won was given £225, and since the others all came joint second, they were all given the 2nd place prize money of £75! These same 6 guys just kept registering and registering, going all-in on the first hand, then emptied their accounts after a day. Every single game they put down £300 and took £600 from the table, the cards were completely irrelevant. They played hundreds of games. For anyone considering trying it, they've changed the software now! The other 5 players now get the £75 2nd place money shared between them.
Posted by BigBluster

Mostly true, but it was a one-off, after new Software had been introduced. It was 3 or 4 years back, I think.

The players involved eventually had to repay the money, which they did after much screaming & complaining. They colluded to grim the Site, but cried like babies when they had to pay the money back.