going on about the WCOOP Main Event and ‘TheV0id’ being stripped of his $1M plus win, the bracelet, and all things good and golden when you win a major tournament, due to game integrity. There’s also a lot of things going on with Absolute Poker and game integrity right now.
I don’t have an answer to any of it but I do remember other sites that hit the internet and some of them survived, some of them didn’t, when shit happened with security breaches and game integrity.
Planet Poker was the first poker site on the net and the first to take a gigantic hit when their security was compromised and some player managed to win a ridiculous amount of money playing $10-20 limit holdem. I believe that the security breach was found when that player tried to cash out a large amount of $$, but not before. Planet confiscated the funds and gave them back to the players. Although Planet is still alive and well, it never took off as it should have.
Highlanderpoker took a big hit when some guys came up with a trojan horse that was supposed to be an aid in horse racing, once it was downloaded and opened, the bad guys could see the hole cards of the exposed players. Doyle’s face was on the site although he didn’t have any part of it, and I heard that he made sure everyone got their money back when the site folded.
PokerSpot and Dutch Boyd, that’s another little can of worms and a lot of unhappy campers left with nothing still have a lot to say about it. Read some of the news (old) here.
I think the general noise going on with losing players is just that – a lot of noise. Most people believe they are being cheated if things don’t go their way over a period of time.
I believe that all online sites investigate all possibilities and avenues when they are notified of something suspicious, and that they have continually updating software that checks for collusion, game breach, and the whole damn ball of wax. Why? Because they make so much friggin money that they don’t need to cheat you, nor do they want you to be cheated.
You obv need to read a bit more about the Absolute situation
Linda – you spoke too soon, the Absolute situation is real. Absolute support staff have mistakenly provided hand histories with all the hole cards showing from hands that were folded along with the player IP addresses. One of the IP addresses matches the alleged "superuser" account, and the IP address happens to belong to Absolute. They are still trying to verify this, but it looks pretty sure that an Absolute Poker staff member has been cheating.