Absolute Poker Scandal

If you play on Absolute Poker, keep an eye out for a player named “Potripper”. Why? Because it’s been brought to the public’s attention that Potripper cheats by using an observer to see all the players whole cards on the table [whats up andeh].

All this was brought forward when “CrazyMarco”, the player who came second to Potripper in now the infamous tournament asked for the hand histories from this tournament from Absolute Poker but he got more that he bargained for when he was sent a file that contained all sorts of private information that a normal poker site would never release. This included private information like each players whole cards, IP addresses and even observer IP addresses.

Needless to say, Potripper was eventually caught out. The evidence against him is astonishing - the cheater folded the first two hands before the observer showed up and was on an unstoppable streak until another player had a pair of kings as whole cards. This blatent cheating continued on for the rest of the tournament; e.g. Potripper is dealt KQ and FOLDS when an opponent is deal AA.

Below is another sick call he made:

Stage #896976330 Tourney ID 1883389 Holdem Multi Normal Tournament No Limit $4500 - 2007-09-13 01:43:49 (ET)
Table: 14 (Real Money) Seat #3 is the dealer
Seat 3 - POTRIPPER ($765740 in chips)
Seat 8 - CRAZYMARCO ($214260 in chips)
POTRIPPER - Ante $450
CRAZYMARCO - Ante $450
POTRIPPER - Posts small blind $2250
CRAZYMARCO - Posts big blind $4500
*** POCKET CARDS ***
POTRIPPER - Calls $2250
CRAZYMARCO - Checks
*** FLOP *** [4h Kd Kh]
CRAZYMARCO - Checks
POTRIPPER - Bets $9000
CRAZYMARCO - Calls $9000
*** TURN *** [4h Kd Kh] [7s]
CRAZYMARCO - Checks
POTRIPPER - Bets $13500
CRAZYMARCO - All-In(Raise) $200310 to $200310
POTRIPPER - Calls $186810
*** RIVER *** [4h Kd Kh 7s] [5s]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
POTRIPPER - Shows [10c 9c] (One pair, kings)
CRAZYMARCO - Shows [9h 2h] (One pair, kings)
POTRIPPER Collects $428520 from main pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total Pot($428520)
Board [4h Kd Kh 7s 5s]
Seat 3: POTRIPPER (dealer) (small blind) won Total ($428520) HI:($428520) with One pair, kings(ten kicker) [10c 9c - B:Kh,B:Kd,P:10c,P:9c,B:7s]
Seat 8: CRAZYMARCO (big blind) HI:lost with One pair, kings [9h 2h - B:Kh,B:Kd,P:9h,B:7s,B:5s]

Assuming that all of this is true, the cheaters are looking at some prison time. It will be dissappointing to see online poker lose its trust by not playing a fair game. Not me however, I’ve been dominated one too many times so I don’t care.

Read more about it here:

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showflat.php?Cat=0&Board=beats&Number=12541923&page=0&fpart=1
http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=12097244&an=0&page=0#Post12097244