Cheating at UltimateBet Poker Room

UltimateBet cheating players? They have been accused of the following by players :

• Being aware of the cheating for nine months

• Not making any attempt to thwart the cheating before it was exposed on 2+2.

• The cheating was done by employees of UltimateBet.

• Aggressively trying to cover up the matter rather than confront the problem and do the right thing.

• No public statement made for at least three months after the crimes were made known.

• To this date they still have not contacted those players who were cheated (some still don't know about it happening) and those that do are told when they contact UltimateBet that the issue is being looked into, or some other stall tactic.

• None of those who were cheated have been reimbursed in any way.

• * I'm not so sure that last statement remains true as I have heard some players are getting some of their money back

When this was first brought to light it was noted that a player named NioNio had won enough that according to statistics the chances of a player being able to win the amount this player accumulated in the number of hands played were literally the same as what the odds are of winning the powerball jackpot ... three days in a row!

But because hole cards are not shown on any hand but those that go to a showdown there was no way for anyone to know for certain past the obvious ... which is plenty proof for this writer (there was one tournament where the cheater only folded four times) and UltimateBet released their "official" version as mentioned in the list, a full three months after the matter was first made public, in which they stated that although NioNio's statistics were abnormal that there was nothing to prove any wrong doing had happened.

But the numbers said otherwise. Stats on MyPokerIntel.com (tracks high roller poker) showed that NioNio had beaten the games at a rate of 114 big blinds per 100 hands (114bb/100) over the 8,000 hands that he had played (accumulating over $600k in 64 hours, not bad for an otherwise unknown). To give you an idea what we're talking here, the world's best players strive to win 15 bb/100.

Even more incriminating was the last date NioNio played (under that name) was September 4th, the same week the cheating at Absolute Poker came to light. Not too mention that it is unbelievable that NioNio, the most successful poker player in the history of the world (aside from perhaps the cheats at AP), would walk away from a situation where he was making half a million dollars in less than every three days.

Without going into it much further, once this info was made public the rest of the poker players began using their hand histories to piece together an ugly scenario where in the end it was discovered that Ultimatebet, just like its sister-site Absolute Poker, had tried to cover up the cheating and even went as far as deleting some information which it blatantly looked the world in the eyes and claimed this was an accident. This coming from the same company that not once, but twice was going to cover up the truth and only came forward after its situation forced an action

 

It is simply unfathomable that red flag was not raised when NioNio, the most successful Poker player in the history of the world, a guy for whom logging onto UltimateBet was like going to an ATM machine... and stealing the whole thing, abruptly decided a couple days after the Absolute Poker scandal became public that he wanted to close his account. The only rational conclusion is that UltimateBet had full knowledge of the cheating as it was taking place and deliberately allowed it to continue just like at their sister site Absolute Poker where the founder of the company was cheating and orchestrating cover-up.

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