Superusers and Silence: How UltimateBet let players get cheated for millions

[Marlin]

The commonly used argument for poker sites’ not cheating their customers, or allowing them to be cheated, is that they make can make far too much money legally, to even consider risking it.

That argument conveniently overlooks certain things.

The first one is the Greed of the individuals involved, which in the case of certain individuals, obviously knows no bounds.

The second is that the criminal will eventually be held to account, due to supposed regulation.

The City of London Police versus Fallon and co, could learn something from this incident to see how evidence really should be represented and the depths that are needed to be gone through, to prove something beyond a reasonable doubt. Real expert witnesses, being one of them.

The third and probably the most worrying of all is the blatancy.

Now, I was never very good at charts and graphs at school but even I can see, from the plot that GAF put up, that there is an outlier.

If the poker site and the authority that is supposedly regulating it, cannot pick up upon such a blatant example, then what chance do the customers have, of them recognising corruption that is done with more subtlety?

I have no evidence that any site I have played on has ever cheated me. I don’t think my stakes would be worth it, but who knows, if there were a million of me?

Nevertheless, to (effectively) rely on the Poker site’s regulating themselves’, due to the obvious inefficiency of the people who are actually supposed to be regulating them, when the Poker sites primary motive is to make as much money for themselves as possible, seems naïve in the extreme.