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Detectives: Who and How

There has been a lot of to-do on the media about the Absolute Poker and Ultimate Bet cheating scandals – they literally rocked the online casino gambling industry and called into question the integrity of internet-based gambling and betting activities. With all of the media attention focused on the companies involved in the cheat though it can often be simple to overlook the details of how these amazing cheats were uncovered. A handful of poker pros and the online casino poker gambling community joined forces, weeded through a huge amount of data, hand histories, and other information, and uncovered the cheat of the century – and all while Absolute Poker insisted that the game was safe and fair.
According to information available today, the cheating scheme that took $20 million in player funds operated across four years. The first suspect case highly suspect case though that came to light is Marco Johnson, a 21-year online casino poker gambler. Johnson entered a AP sponsored tournament, and while Johnson made it to the final table and a playoff with “Potripper,” 20 hands later and Johnson had lost all of the hands and the nearly half a million jackpot.

At that point Johnson requested his hand history and set the issue aside for a while, not overly concerned with the loss. Fast forward a bit and the data was analyzed by to other online poker players, a former lawyer and a software whiz – Ravitch and Arem. Once the data was run through a program, Ravitch and Arem discovered that “Potripper” as well as a couple of other users had highly improbable betting patterns – patterns suggesting the “superuser” account the online casino community had alleged from the start. This software and data was later used to prove that a cheat was in place and that thousands of other players had been affected.