This is an unbelievable story. Brian Townsend over a short period of time has developed a good reputation as being an excellent online cash game player and has been building up his entrepreneurial skills with his association with the Cardrunners site. He had a somewhat meteoric rise to fame last year, although from the results [...]
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Brian Townsend confesses to multi-accounting on PokerStars and FullTilt Poker
Posted in online poker, poker cheating, poker news, tagged poker on August 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Warning: your next poker partner may be a bot
Posted in online poker, poker cheating, tagged poker on November 16, 2007 | 1 Comment »
This is an interesting article published in the local rag, The Sydney Morning Herald.
The article is actually derived from a New York Times article written by an Ian Ayres.
These articles reminded me of a blog entry by Paul Wasicka a few months ago.
In principle, this sounds fairly scary, but I think there is a long [...]
Cheating on Absolute Poker
Posted in online poker, poker cheating, poker news, poker tournaments, tagged poker on October 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I am a bit behind the 8 ball on this story, but it needs to be posted. I am not sure whether this story, or the WCOOP Main Event story came first, but both are a worry.
From cardplayer.com: “The Kahnawake Gaming Commission (KGC) has hired an independent auditor to investigate claims that Absolute Poker’s security [...]
WCOOP Main Event Winner, “TheV0id”, has been Disqualified
Posted in online poker, poker cheating, poker news, poker tournaments, tagged poker on October 16, 2007 | 1 Comment »
This is big news.
“The investigation into the WCOOP Main Event has now been concluded.
We have determined, based on the totality of evidence, that the tournament winner “TheV0id” was in breach of the PokerStars Terms of Service.
In the interests of Game Integrity, “TheV0id” has been disqualified from first place.
All other WCOOP Main Event prizewinners in addition [...]
