Much time and much water passed under the bridge since the so-called ‘super user’ cheating scandal Absolute Poker was making in the gambling news but the subject has once again come back to the surface with the recent news that there appears to be new evidence linking Absolute Poker’s co-founder, Scott Tom, as the primary culprit in the scandal. The new evidence has been unearthed by a former editor of PokerNews.com, Haley Hintze, who is also a widely respected blogger on the subject of poker.
Hintze’s time over the past few years has largely been spent in pursuit of information regarding the scandal, citing her determination and desire to uncover more information with regards to educating and informing the poker public, and also finding out just who was responsible for the scandal. Hintze herself was able to obtain computer screen shots of the accounts of those cheating in the scandal, which she got from the administrative systems of both AP and UB. These images, when put together with her undoubted knowledge of just how the systems operate, convinced Hintze that the co-founder of Absolute Poker was fairly certainly the one behind the cheating scandal.
Hintze then posted a selection of the screen shots on her blog during the course of the last weekend as well as accompanying explanations of just what the viewers were looking at. Her first screen shot illustrates basic account information for Tom’s player account, called ‘PotChopper’, which was set up in June 2005. After this, she displays a screen shot from UB’s anti-fraud system, called ieSnare. The program was capable of seeing AP accounts after the two poker providers collaborated in order to set up the CEREBUS Network. The image itself displays records of the PotChopper account’s loggias to UB, and the information contained included dates and times of logins as well as a possible unique computer identifier and IP addresses.
Hintze follows up with more screenshots from AP, which illustrate logins corresponding to a unique user identifier that was ascribed to Tom’s computer and his own user ID was matched with logins to the foremost super user account called Potripper. She then posted screenshots of logins by tow further proven cheating accounts, called Doubledrag and Graycat, which display close associations to the same user ID and IP addresses.Â
In order to further illustrate her point that Tom was overseeing the cheating accounts she put up a screenshot of PotRipper’s financial history, with the account getting a $70,000 transfer from Doubledrag on September 20, 2007. The next day the AP system noted the account as a result of its size and withdrew $70,217.25 from the account. Five days after this Tom took out $85,000 from the account.
The overall reaction to the postings has not caused a massive reaction, with some posters praising her journalistic work and endeavors and some calling for the sacking of Tom, although responses have been more muted that may have been expected.
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