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Poker Malware Planted

Two information sites for land and online casino poker, Twoplustwo and High Stakes DB, are involved in a controversy with Hochgepokert.com, a portal for German poker information. The controversy started because of a discussion of the allegations on a certain player from Germany who is believed to be double-dealing during live tournaments. The modus operandi of this player is to insert some type of malware into the laptops of some other players at the online casinos when they are not watching their computers, he can then take advantage of knowing their styles for the next competitions.

According to the allegations, this German player, through the malware, is able to view the opponent’s hole cards in the next matches, through insertion of a memory stick as it expels the devious contents at appropriate times in the game. According to Hochgepokert.com, there are already two victims who regularly play poker at the online casinos and are subject to these deceitful schemes. The first one lost at least $350,000, while the other $40,000. The German site nicknamed this London-based German player as Maximilian A. This has led the Twoplustwo forum to speculate that the accused is Max Ashkar, who uses the handle mexx86 at online casino games.

During a live tournament in Austria, the two who were compromised cornered Maximilian A and he allegedly admitted to have done it. But when the police came, he denied the allegations thrown at him. There are still further investigations to find out how many players were the victims of Maximilian A’s tricky schemes. Some suspected the number is already more than 10. Those at risk are online casino poker players who abandoned their laptops for a short while during live tournaments held in Europe.