http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/24/ultimatebet_cheating_allegations/ By Dan Goodin in San Francisco The Register 24th September 2008 The former operator of a popular online poker site faces a $75m claim after internet sleuths presented evidence that for more than three years it offered rigged games that allowed cheaters to win hands at astronomically unlikely odds. According to a special report published last week on msnbc.com, scammers were able to manipulate the software running UltimateBet.com, one of the top 10 online poker sites. The unauthorized software code allowed certain players to see the hole cards of their opponents, according to the report, which cited a report from Tokwiro Enterprises, a company that claims ownership of UltimateBet. The scam was unearthed by some of the players who got burned. They noticed that certain players in the highest-stakes games were winning at a rate that seemed to defy statistical odds. Two of the players, who went by the handles "trambopoline" and "dlpnyc21," eventually closed in on a particular account as a prime suspect. Using the screen name "NioNio," the player netted $300,000 in profit in just 3,000 hands. They later discovered that NioNio had won 13 of the 14 sessions recorded on MyPokerIntel.com, a website that tracks high-stakes online tournaments. Australian poker player Michael Josem compared the results to 870 other accounts with 2,500 or more hands recorded and calculated that NioNio's win rate was less likely than winning a one-in-a-million lottery four days in a row. [...] __________________________________________________ Register now for HITBSecConf2008 - Malaysia! With a new triple-track conference featuring 4 keynote speakers and over 35 international experts, this is the largest network security event in Asia and the Middle East! http://conference.hackinthebox.org/hitbsecconf2008kl/Received on Wed Sep 24 2008 - 22:27:16 PDT
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