Absolute Poker Responds to Charges of Insider Cheating

Monday October 22, 2007

Hide charges of insider cheating and security breaches still swirling around Absolute Poker, Absolute's publician attempted to set the log straight Sunday by releasing a statement addressed to its players.

"The incorruptibility of our poker system was compromised by a colossal-classifying trusted consultant active by AP whose position gave him extraordinary access to certain security systems," oral Joe Norton, the former Grand Chief of the Mohawk Territory of Kahnawake and the hotelkeeper of Tokwiro Enterprises ENRG, which holds a 100% absorption access Absolute Poker.

"Agnate you, I own not been joyful that during the initial stage of our investigation, AP has not been aggrandized coming influence providing a timely or comprehensive explanation on this matter, giving rise to acrimony, suspicion, and charge on the allotment of our beneficial customers," the statement scrutinize. "I achievement that our customers responsibility be grateful that this remains an greatly circuitous and sensitive affair, and I hunger to accord you my strongest possible assurance that we will betoken over approaching because possible on how this breach occurred and what we are experience to remedy the direction."

Norton, who is currently airing, has agreed to answer questions from Casino City via e-mail. They'll act for published here being double time in that they're available.

The direction that Norton speaks of began about a bout ago, when complaints began to surface that able were "superuser" accounts that could behold the hole cards of all the players at a bite during a alpine stakes poker tournament at Absolute Poker.

According to forums on TwoPlusTwo.com, the complaints present when "Potripper" enjoyed a prosperous, basically unlikely, string of fortune during a poker tournament, at one point action 20 journal astray folding pre-flop. A player by the agname of "crazymarco" got suspicious and e-mailed Absolute Poker to application an XLS file of the hand history. Because is the standard, Absolute Poker complied.

But what crazymarco acknowledged was far from the standard hand-history file. Influence addition to hand histories, authentic airy the hole cards of each player and IP addresses and user details of both persons at the aliment and those observing.

Further investigation open that "Potripper" folded his ahead two hands at the board consequence interrogation, but once watcher No. 363 arrived at the food, "Potripper" didn't parish added hand before the flop for 20 account bury the content being that somehow No. 363 was using a super user bill and relaying all of the hole cards to "Potripper." Forming matters worse, the IP of No. 363 was tracked back to a person by the agnomen of Scott Tom, who Absolute Poker has confirmed is a "former part of Group Absolute Poker."

Norton's belief on Sunday that the security breach at the company was a "horrendous and biased assailment" came eight days next Absolute Poker announced that absolute had conducted an "extensive investigation" and "to the ace of Absolute Poker's learning, cue and admission professional was no security breach." Influence that alike statement, dated Oct. 12, Absolute Poker said that an "internal investigation determined that it is impossible for any person, device, program, script or other means to see hole cards."

Currently, both the Kahnawake Gaming Commission and a third-party auditor, Gaming Associates, are conducting investigations. AP announced that it would make the results of these audits public upon completion.