Rome - There was none other than Russ Hamilton, a famous poker champion, behind a huge scam conducted on online poker sites. Rigging software for Hamilton and his accomplices could spy on opponents' cards in tournaments. Investigations have been ongoing since 2007 but today the first revelations from the investigation: a leader of the gang of swindlers there would be just the sample.
According to the Kahnawake Gaming Commission, Hamilton, well known name in the poker world for winning a major world tournament in '94, he risks a lot with him and his accomplices. The hardest decisions lie ahead: UltimateBet before November 3 will pay 7.6 million dollars to the players cheated, and remove any employee not described as suitable by the Commission. In addition, the system will be redesigned to avoid further such incidents will be recorded and saved all the logs of the sessions of play. Penalty for breach: the revocation of the license.
As readers will remember the point the story is worthy of Computer plot of a thriller: it is enough to observe and collect some data to figure out that it was cheating. A year ago it began tracking the strange movements noted by some fans at Absolute Poker, UltimateBet's sister site for relating to the accounts of certain players that can win a hundred times faster than any other player. With these revelations was made following an investigation within the company and it was found that some employees cheated the customers for about three years, using just a software bug that allowed to spy on opponents' cards.
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