Absolute Poker rigged casino software

Monday, October 18, 2010

Absolute Poker rigged casino software

Absolute Poker has a long and chequered history of cheating, so it comes as no great surprise that another issue has emerged. This time, rather than cheating its own poker players as in the "superuser" scandal (see below for details), it has now rather bizarrely emerged that the software operating the casino keno game is functioning in non-random fashion.

As reported in the Absolute Poker keno is rigged thread at 2+2 Poker, numbers in the keno game were hitting based on previous hits, whereby a winning number was followed by a number five times higher 86 percent of the time.

The player who publicised the matter also put a demonstration on Youtube - see his Absolute Poker keno rigged video.

A couple of days after the matter was aired, the non-random element appeared to have been rectified - subsequent tests showed no anomolies.

Absolute Poker issued no statement. The exact nature of the non-random element in the game was never explained, nor the steps taken to rectify it.

Of course, by Absolute Poker standards, non-random software is small potatoes.

In 2007, the "superuser" scandal broke at 2+2 Poker and was also reported at Casinomeister and many other poker fora. In this first case of the Absolute group's proven cheating, special accounts were used by company employees to enable the viewing of opponents' hole cards, resulting in an insurmountable advantage.

A few months later, an almost identical scandal was exposed at Ultimate Bet, the sister room to Absolute Poker. The matter broke again at 2+2 Poker, and was covered at Casinomeister.

The matter was so big it was even reported on national television - see the YouTube 60 Minutes 1 and 60 Minutes 2 programmes.

Earlier this year, it was demonstrated that the software supplier to these two poker rooms, Cereus, used a weak encryption platform that allowed user hole cards to be viewed - I covered the matter in my More cheating at AP and UB article.

In explaining how to access the Absolute Poker keno game in his video, poster "NoahSD" had this to say:

You'll need an Absolute Poker login to do that...which I suggest that you don't have...

Good advice. Absolute Poker hacked its players' accounts to commit grand larceny on a breathtaking scale and employed a weak, industry sub-standard encryption platform which again put player hole card information at risk. Now the software operating one of its casino games has been shown to be non-random.

Are there any ways left for Absolute Poker to cheat its customers?

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How unsurprising.

I thought the word on the street from the industryites is the game is not rigged becvause they make enough money from a fair game, so why would they rig it?

Ecogra certified no less. Reams and teams of professional suits and accountants protecting the operators interests, but can't catch what some punter @ 2+2 can.

Wonderful.

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