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Online card games cheat exposed
PLAYERS of the online Absolute Poker game have found that someone in the company was involved in a cheating operation.
According to the New York Times, punters playing the game got a bit suspicious when one of the players seemed to know what cards were in their hands.
Normally at this point there would be lots of close ups of people's faces, chewing of cigars until someone spat and the cheater would be shot dead. Unfortunately since such action was impossible online, one of the players who’d been cheated requested that Absolute Poker provide hand histories from the tournament.
Absolute Poker accidentally sent a file that contained all sorts of private information that the poker site would never normally release. The file contained every player’s cards, observations of the tables, and even the IP addresses of every person playing.
The Times thinks that someone in Absolute Poker knew that the cheating was taking place and sent too much information to the players so that they could take appropriate action.
Each game was monitored by an 'observer' who is a guest who can’t see any of the players’ cards. When this observer was watching the game the cheater did not lose and seemed to know when another player had the best hand.
The gamers looked at who this observer was and in each case it was Scott Tom, part-owner of Absolute Poker, who was operating from the company's servers.
In otherwords he was tipping off the cheater the cards of the other players.
Absolute Poker has denied everything.
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The question we should be asking is - who is Scott Tom?

My clients are shareholders of Absolute Poker. Scott Tom is still very much involved in Absolute Poker.

Everyone knows Poker is not legal in the United States. Scott Tom and his American cronies manipulated the corporate structure - playing the age-old shell game - to minimize their exposure to Absolute Poker.

Scott Tom controls everything from behind the scenes. So don't believe the bullshit "Absolute Poker Management" throws at you - because the Management is Scott Tom.

Scott Tom receives hefty income from Absolute Poker. Looking at his high-flying lifestyle - beautiful house in Costa Rica, luxury cars, frequent private jet travel around the World, and bodyguards - we estimate his income to be in the range of millions per year.

Is Scott Tom stupid enough to cheat the players that have made him wealthy and on top - get caught cheating?

Yes. Scott Tom and his cronies are indeed foolish. Suicidal foolish...

Absolute Poker Management states "Absolute Poker highly values and intends to protect its players, shareholders, business partners, and affiliates."

Let's discuss exactly how Scott Tom and his cronies have treated shareholders. These are the people that risked their hard-earned savings to give Absolute Poker its start many years ago.

Scott Tom and his cronies have totally blown off shareholders. While they are busy flying around the World spending thousands and thousands on luxury - shareholders have seen little more than a trickle.

Today, Shareholders are totally ignored by Scott Tom and his Absolute Poker Management. Calls and emails are ignored. Shareholders have no access to Scott Tom. Behind a curtain setup by lawyers, Absolute Poker was sold to yet another shell company belonging to Scott Tom. This minimized any return shareholders can get. 

Despite this, shareholders are owed USD 250,000,000. Besides his father and other relatives being paid off secretly, the common shareholder after many delays and excuses can assume only that their money will never be paid back.

Scott Tom and his cronies live in Costa Rica. A country where killing can be bought for a few thousand dollars.

Ask yourself - if you stole $250,000,000 from investors and flaunt your wealth while letting them starve - would you expect to live a long and prosperous life?

Scott Tom and his cronies think so. They think an "independent poker commission" is going to clear them and the players will come rushing back to Absolute Poker. They think legal structures and lawyers will protect them from investors who have waited for many years to get their money back.

The worse problem Scott Tom now faces is Absolute Poker might fall apart because he cheated players. And he cannot pay back investors after giving himself, his cronies, and his family years of luxurious living using money that should have been paid to investors.

Scott Tom and his cronies have no future.

There is only one way out. Pay back the players that they cheated. Pay back the investors they cheated. And do this quickly.

Time has run out for Scott Tom, his cronies, and Absolute Poker.

Poker is essentially based on bold-faced lies. Every poker player teaches himself how to lie in the most convincing way.
With such a base of thought, how can they possibly trust anyone online ?
How ?
Cliffnotes to Mr.Pokerface: Bluffing isn´t the same thing as cheating, always remember that.

If you play (live- or online) against someone who loses everytime to you, but regards you as pleasant company to play with, he most likely returns to play with you. But if you even once cheat five lousy bucks from him and get caught (by cheating I _do not_ mean bluffing, which is an essential part of poker) , it´s guaranteed that he won´t return to play against you ever again.

This whole Absolute "superaccount" cheating-scandal is something that I´ve feared for the whole time I´ve played online. 
Poker, afterall is (at least seemingly ;) an honest game and this kind of shenanigans shouldn´t be tolerated at all, thus major respect to 2+2 -forums and everyone involved into the investigation and bringing this whole situation out to the public. 

(sry for my crappy English, I´m an ignorant Finn albeit I study English philology :)
The posting here http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showthreaded.php?Cat=0&Number=12520697

says that it looks like the gaming comission was in on it. Not good.
Oh well..I'd be worried except my Absolute Poker acct has exactly 5 cents in it. Hey but I got VIP status WOO HOO!