ultimate bet scandal
Tokwiro Enterprises is a private company that owns two online poker cardrooms, Absolute Poker and UltimateBet. [1]
And poker player consumer groups should be trying to keep an eye on the sites as well. [2]
Obviously, people are not happy that it took such effort on the part of the players to notify UB and, for all intents and purposes, harass the site for months and months with the only response being a short statement confirming abnormal winning activity. [3]
Following the positive linkage from the Sleeplesss account to a home owned by Hamilton in Las Vegas, poker pros Barry Greenstein and Joe Sebok sat down with Hamilton after his lawyers advised him not to appear on the PokerRoad Podcast. [...] On Tuesday, the Kahnawake Gaming Commission (KGC) posted a press release on its website outlining the sanctions that the organization has imposed against one of its licensees, Ultimate Bet. [4]
In November 2007, Absolute issued an interim statement claiming the employee cheating had taken place over a period of forty days and that the cardroom was refunding $1.6 million to affected players. [1]
This is not the real NioNio account, as this one was created 04/19/2008 and is a play money account only. [5]
In addition, Ultimate Bet says they are going to be paying players back for their net losses to the cheating accounts. [3]
In the Ultimate Bet incident, a still unidentified company “consultant” was found to have used a loophole in the card rooms software created by an upgrade which enabled him to view other players hidden hole cards. [6]
These are the only two major online poker cheating scandals. [3]
In addition, the popular television news program, ‘60 Minutes,’ is slated to air a report about the Ultimate Bet scandal on October 26th. [4]
The statement sums up the findings of the investigation: ‘The investigation has concluded that certain player accounts did in fact have an unfair advantage, and that these accounts targeted the highest limit games on the site. [7]
I have been playing online for years on all sites. [...] There are two players in particular that stand out to me on pokerstars. [2]
“On January 12, 2008, UltimateBet says it “was alerted to allegations that a player with the online handle “NioNio” exhibited abnormally high winning statistics and was accused of having an unfair advantage during play. [6]
Sources:
[1] Tokwiro Enterprises - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
[2] Ultimate Bet and Russ Hamilton
[3] Ultimate Bet Cheating Scandal
[4] KGC Finds Russ Hamilton Responsible for Ultimate Bet Scandal
[5] Ultimate Bet Scandal Continues
[6] Ultimate Bet Scandal
[7] Online Poker Scene - Ultimate Bet Cheating Scandal Statement Released