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Wednesday 19th September 2007

Absolute Poker in ‘Superuser’ Controversy

AbsolutePoker.com is defending itself this week following accusations made by members of several Internet forums that the online poker room has a ‘superuser’ account, which allows one player to read the hole cards of another during a game.

Doubts regarding AbsolutePoker.com’s safety first surfaced on Internet forums such as twoplustwo.com and pocketfives.com when some members speculated that up to three players may have access to ‘superuser’ accounts or may have been involved in the development of AbsolutePoker.com’s software and be able to exploit flaws in its programming.

Forum users targeted three accounts as potential ‘superusers’, named as ‘Doubledrag’, Potdripper’ and ‘Graycat’.

What sparked the controversy was a call made by ‘Potdripper’ in a high buy-in tournament where the user called on-the-turn with 9-10 when their opponent was holding 9-2 for a busted flush draw. ‘Potdripper’ went on to win the tournament.

This ignited debate on two cash players, ‘Doubledrag’ and ‘Graycat’, who had reportedly seen incredible returns over a very short space of time. According to users of the forums, these two accounts would reportedly often throw away hands on flops despite raising pre-flop a lot inferring that they were aware of when their opponents hit the flop. It was reported that these two accounts also never flat called on the river and only ever raised or folded.

AbsolutePoker.com responded in a statement stating that it has temporarily frozen the suspicious accounts while a thorough investigation is conducted. The site stated that it has researched the play of the three suspicious sites exhaustively and found no proof that they had knowledge of other players’ hole cards.

The site also said that it has yet to find any evidence of wrongdoing with the player's hands in question coming from a ‘small sample’ of hands.

”There were hands that were played poorly from a poker strategy perspective and these players did receive a fortunate result,' read the statement.

AbsolutePoker.com said that it has found no evidence that any of the players in question were involved in ‘chip dumping’ or any other improper activity but that it has not closed the investigation.

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Source: OnlineCasinoNews

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