Comments on: Alleged Poker Scam Artist Living it up in Costa Rica http://www.bankrollboost.com/poker_blog/potripper-in-costa-rica/ The Poker Gossip Blog about Babes, Videos, and all things Poker! Sun, 14 Nov 2010 10:36:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 By: mob_godson http://www.bankrollboost.com/poker_blog/potripper-in-costa-rica/comment-page-1/#comment-211541 mob_godson Tue, 26 Jan 2010 19:47:01 +0000 http://www.bankrollboost.com/poker_blog/?p=810#comment-211541 The figure they speak of is incorrect,it was 22.0 million dollars,the thief was the ex owner of absolute poker who sold the company and left with the secret data base to enter games legit,and be able to see all other card players hands.The eventual bust came from 5 pro players becoming suspicious of this so called user name,now the truth of the matter is ive studied the situation over 5 years and contacted Absolute over twenty times from 4 years ago until just last month,as i knew exactly what was going on,theres no way a man with three aces and two queens was going to fold unless he knew i had 4 kings and this was a repetitive process.I told them id never use real money because the site was unsafe.,now a few sites are on facebook and the communication of other opponents hands are being revealed.I lost over 1.7 million dollars in play chips in two years and the hands were noticed because the winning hands werent winning at all,thats when the crooks started slipping up,they tested the robbery for months with play chips to get the more than one bandit in a game at a time.The number one thing to remember when playing online is the security provided as far as log ins and duplicate user names is made by the site placing a cookie on youre browser,you can trick it by by playing without the download,BUT the way one is caught is with the ip address,so what the common crook does is gets two or more laptops,two or more internet lines to different numbers and then they can go into the game and be identified as single players,the problem could be simply denied by the site forbidding to play more than one hand at a time,this is exactly what made the pros suspicious ,the bandit was tied into over 5 games at the same time,and never lost.The other thing that is bad on the sites is when youre in a tourney and youre down to the last person,and they continually fold for over an hour on everyhand,this is another form of theft,what they are doing whether its for cash or not is making you gain bad feelings towards the game and the player and then you drop out,they win,the playchips go to them they do a buy back and they go off to make a real purchase swapoping the chips for prizes.Im sure the site feels bad,i dont because they were forewarned,and besides ,the most important factor is this,there are a few legal sites in the us,pureplay being one of them,based in the us,as to where absolute is owned and operated out of Canada by a native american tribe,but their customer service is in costa rica.Illegal.There is no legislation regarding any of the theft as a criminal act,the man walked with over 20 mil and there is no law and the US government does not regulate online gambling.Too bad,because they are losing over 110 billion dollarsa year in tax money. The figure they speak of is incorrect,it was 22.0 million dollars,the thief was the ex owner of absolute poker who sold the company and left with the secret data base to enter games legit,and be able to see all other card players hands.The eventual bust came from 5 pro players becoming suspicious of this so called user name,now the truth of the matter is ive studied the situation over 5 years and contacted Absolute over twenty times from 4 years ago until just last month,as i knew exactly what was going on,theres no way a man with three aces and two queens was going to fold unless he knew i had 4 kings and this was a repetitive process.I told them id never use real money because the site was unsafe.,now a few sites are on facebook and the communication of other opponents hands are being revealed.I lost over 1.7 million dollars in play chips in two years and the hands were noticed because the winning hands werent winning at all,thats when the crooks started slipping up,they tested the robbery for months with play chips to get the more than one bandit in a game at a time.The number one thing to remember when playing online is the security provided as far as log ins and duplicate user names is made by the site placing a cookie on youre browser,you can trick it by by playing without the download,BUT the way one is caught is with the ip address,so what the common crook does is gets two or more laptops,two or more internet lines to different numbers and then they can go into the game and be identified as single players,the problem could be simply denied by the site forbidding to play more than one hand at a time,this is exactly what made the pros suspicious ,the bandit was tied into over 5 games at the same time,and never lost.The other thing that is bad on the sites is when youre in a tourney and youre down to the last person,and they continually fold for over an hour on everyhand,this is another form of theft,what they are doing whether its for cash or not is making you gain bad feelings towards the game and the player and then you drop out,they win,the playchips go to them they do a buy back and they go off to make a real purchase swapoping the chips for prizes.Im sure the site feels bad,i dont because they were forewarned,and besides ,the most important factor is this,there are a few legal sites in the us,pureplay being one of them,based in the us,as to where absolute is owned and operated out of Canada by a native american tribe,but their customer service is in costa rica.Illegal.There is no legislation regarding any of the theft as a criminal act,the man walked with over 20 mil and there is no law and the US government does not regulate online gambling.Too bad,because they are losing over 110 billion dollarsa year in tax money.

]]> By: Mitch http://www.bankrollboost.com/poker_blog/potripper-in-costa-rica/comment-page-1/#comment-172289 Mitch Wed, 03 Sep 2008 02:57:10 +0000 http://www.bankrollboost.com/poker_blog/?p=810#comment-172289 Hey, I just linked to this article from my site. If you have time, come join my AB/UB boycott. Hey, I just linked to this article from my site.

If you have time, come join my AB/UB boycott.

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