Ultimate Cheating Uncovered at 2+2

Filed in archive Poker Forums on May 30, 2008

Most of what I write here is to encourage poker players who play live or those who maybe don't have the bankroll to play live and want to get the feel of the action for the cost of a few value meals at Arby's. But, sadly money begets greed and some of those on the inside over at UltimateBet may have bitten their own tail while reaching for a few extra bucks as posted by Pauly over at Tao of Poker (who you should be reading daily during the WSOP).

Relatively few extra bucks, as we are talking about over a million dollars or more taken in by someone (or ones) using a superuser account to cheat high stakes players out of parts of their bankrolls. The 2+2 forums have incredibly knowledgeable players on the live and online games (and yes, they'll let you know it) but if you wade through their site you'll see why your game can improve by finding the posters who leave valuable tips on the game in the multi-tiered sections. Steven Ware and Cornell Fiji have come up with pretty damning evidence of superuser account usage at UltimateBet in its high stakes games.

In a post titled "Superusers and Silence: How UltimateBet let players get cheated for millions" they uncover the grime with graphs, charts of hand histories, and synopsis of the whole ordeal. Hit up the link to read whole thing but I like this line the best when describing one superuser's win-rate:

Assuming a normal distribution of win rates, the chance that NioNio's results could be explained by variance is 1:131,236,127,000,000,000,000,000.

Expressed another way, 1:131,236,127,000,000,000,000,000 is about the same as winning the powerball jackpot three days in a row.