Expose Online Poker Cheating

All hands on deck as Ultimate Bet, host of online poker tries to repair its damaged reputation by employing new staff

As UltimateBet scrambled about searching for ways to rid its site of super-users and any other possible troublemakers it was revealed that online poker may have been the subject of cheating for a much longer period than initially suggested. Phil Hellmuth one of online poker’s leading lights, however continued to represent the site and Annie Duke signed to take over the management of the online poker tournament schedules. UB had a full roster of professional poker players and all seemed good. Though....there has been some vile speculation that Annie Duke and other senior staff were aware of the online poker cheating scandal if you can credit that!

Cleaning house is never easy when it comes to online poker sites and Ultimate Bet says that there are more accounts that were involved in the cheating scandal and which are still under investigation. UB says that it is not that there are more users involved, it is that the same users who have previously been identified as the online poker cheaters, have different usernames which are only now being uncovered.

Furthermore, it was discovered that the online poker cheating has gone on far longer than it was initially suspected, even before Tokwiro Enterprises acquired Ultimate Bet. There has been a general scurrying about in desperate efforts to convince online poker players that UB is a safe site. Even Eric "Rizen" Lynch was called to join, he agreed to endorse UB but a mere 30 days later decided to withdraw, this right in the middle of the 2008 World Series of Poker. What is an online poker player to think? Lynch has issued a blog post saying that he firmly believes that it is safe to play at UB, he claims that he withdrew because of promises made by UB which were taking too long to fulfil.

But wait …. There is more! Nat Arem who investigated the online poker cheating scandal, looked into some of the super-user accounts at UB and found that several of these accounts are actually linked to the previous owner of UB, Russ Hamilton. As you may know Russ Hamilton was the champion of the 1994 World Series of Poker. The press are still awaiting a response from Hamilton regarding his connection to the online poker scandal.