Cheating at Ultimate Bet and Absolute Poker Room

Ultimate Bet and Absolute Poker Room (cheating) ... are owned by the same person. And yes, ... I said the cheating happened  twice.

First the cheating was exposed at Absolute Poker and then less than a year later, cheating was exposed at Ultimate Bet.

Odd then, ... if that's the case that once they were aware of the cheating in Absolute Poker Room ... that they wouldn't have taken extra precautions to assure no such worries of cheating happened at Ultimate Bet?  However that is exactly like it happened. Almost as if all the cheaters picked up and moved over to the other poker room where things weren't quite so hot.

And by supporting these poker rooms after such matters ... we as online poker players send the message that "its okay to cheat me but you must pay me back what was stolen! ... er I mean ... if I catch you!"

Are they really expecting me to be okay with that? Apparently the answer is yes.

Sadly that's exactly what many players have done claiming they are showing support ... which is laughable ironic since they are showing support for whom was likely cheating them and if not ... well they knew about it but did nothing to warn players because of the possibility they would stop playing.

They couldn't have been more wrong in their entire approach to the matter from the start when they didn't warn anybody ... all the way to its ugly end where when they thought their players wouldn't be loyal they sold them down the river at what early estimates say will be into the million mark or perhaps more (there were something like 30 accounts belonging to about 5 different people who kept changing their user names so too not bring as much attention upon themselves but it was way too little and way too late).

Ego was what busted the cheaters. One of them went through an entire tournament and only folded four times. Another won a big tourney which was like a hundred thousand: and what happened was the cheater checked while holding a ten high and the (innocent) player then went all-in with a bluff holding only an eight.  He was called. Note: that last one may not have been as much ego as it was just wanting to get out of there with the cash and opportunity knocked. Since the cheater could see his opponent's hole cards he called right then and the game was ended.

I'd have been furious and I bet that second place (innocent) player was every bit as suspicious and outraged as I am for him after hearing that bitch-slap of a story. Why people didn't question to the point of demanding to know why anybody would call an all-in after having checked a ten high? It was almost (exactly) like you would do if you'd been holding aces and suckered the other side into making the mistake of betting into your obviously better hand.

Players know all of this yet they (some of them) have said they are staying and that they support Absolute Poker and Ultimate Bet and I believe I wouldn't be wrong to quote one as saying, "After getting caught like they did ... I've never felt safer playing here. Any cheating

They are indeed. Unbelievably true as I sit and write this story but true never the less. I guess truth is stranger than fiction because until now I would have said that only in the fairy stories do card cheats;  and those who allow card cheats; get supported by those whom they have cheated.

TWICE!!!

It still remains to be seen but it is likely the cheating was done from an inside the company position. The two companies are claiming its an ex-employee who had already installed the code before the current owners came along but there is strong suspicion ... or at least healthy speculation that the poker room's creator ... is now and has always been ... the owner of the two poker rooms. I wonder how all those players who are rushing to support their favorite cheating poker room ... are going to react when they find out the one whom was cheating ... was tracked back to an account which gave the address of the home of the creator of the software for Absolute Poker Room and Ultimate Bet.