Cheating at UltimateBet Links Russ Hamilton, Former Owner

UltimateBet poker cheating scandal continues as the players continue efforts to unearth the truth.

Rightly outraged players have tasted blood and are not in as big a hurry as first seemed to put this all to rest and move on and this writer applauds their continued effort to get to the bottom of this embarrassment to the online poker community.

Further investigation just keeps pulling back a more corrupt layer than had proceeded and to quote the carnival barker "where it stops nobody knows?".

It seems an employee leaked information that UB management had been trying to cover up that Russ Hamilton (former/current owner of AP/UB) deposited money into a superuser account (accounts held by cheaters that allow them to see everyone's cards) via P2P transfer. The home of another UB acknowledged superuser account is owned by Russ Hamilton.

I could write pages and pages about this scandal but I imagine readers just want to know the jist of the story and as to this date of Aug '08 the story reads that first there was discovery of cheating at Absolute Poker where in the end the poker room paid back to the players whom where cheated (and requested payment, I am sure there were those who were never aware of the matter to know to request payment) and then came to light there was similar cheating at Ultimate Bet poker room which not so ironically is owned by the same person who owns Absolute Poker.

In both instances there was dragging of feet by the poker rooms when it came to investigations by outside parties. Although it seems the Absolute Poker scandal is now laid to rest that the Ultimate Bet poker room scandal still has legs and continues to reveal more corruption that is much further up the ladder than was first thought by even the most cynical.

Now it has been for all practical purpose proven that the former owner (and perhaps current owner hiding that fact due to new law passed in the states) has direct ties to at least two of the "superuser" accounts and the poker room (Ultimate Bet) is now desperately seeking to further itself from any current ties to its creator although this writer feels that would be damage control 101 whether owned by Russ Hamilton or not: and does leave an out for the poker room if it can prove that 1) there is no current ties to Russ Hamilton past the fact he opened these superuser accounts which having been the man behind the software that powers Ultimate Bet he could conceivably have had the software already awaiting the opening of an account with the right sequence of letters and numbers to which would trigger the superuser account to be available.

Of course there are many scenarios all of which could leave the reputation of the poker rooms slightly less singed but at the end of the day they look as guilty whether they were aware of the cheating because they did not make a sincere effort to either stop the cheating or bring it to public knowledge because it wasn't in the best interest of Ultimate Bet.

Players whom have a financial stake in the future of Ultimate Bet such as Annie Duke have spoke out on behalf of the poker room, prior to this new information and no statements have been made nor has there really been time since this newest twist in the scandal has been made public.

Many players had vowed loyalty to Ultimate Bet even with the knowledge they did less than all that was possible to help with the investigation though UB claims otherwise of course. But that was before this newest revelation which might have more impact on the public viewpoint of the poker room. Time will tell.

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