The Online Gambling Scandals Still on Top
Without a doubt, the Absolute Poker and Ultimate Bet cheating scandals have been taking a wide attention firm the media last days. In fact, the whole issue went a little out under control and the questions start to concern not only the casinos itself but the whole online casino gambling industry and set up some questions about the integrity of online gambling and betting activities. As it was proven, together with the all attention of the media focused on the two companies, plenty of different and general issues can be found to give some special overlook to the details of how these amazing cheats were discovered. In fact, lately a handful of poker professionals together with the online casino poker gambling community joined forces, searched through a huge amount of data, histories, and plenty of other information, and discovered the real cheat of the century. Hypocritically, Absolute Poker claimed that the game was safe and fair at the same time.
Just today, some special information were duplicated. According to them, during four years the players lost $20 million due to the unfair casino. The whole suspicion has started with the case of Marco Johnson, a 21-year online casino poker gambler. In detail, Johnson entered a AP sponsored tournament, and while took the part in the final table and a playoff with “Potripper,” no sooner than 20 hands later he had lost all of the hands and almost half a million jackpot.
As an answer, Johnson asked for his hand history and seemed to set the matter aside, not excessively concerned with such a big loss. What happened next, was detailed data analysis by other online poker players, Ravitch and Arem, a former lawyer and a software expert. As soon as the date run through a program, Ravitch and Arem discovered that “Potripper” ‘(as well as a some of other users) had very questionable betting patterns. Those patterns were telling that the “super user” account by which the whole online casino community was alarmed. The same software was later used to show that thousands of other players had been affected by this unfair action.
