The company that
owns Ultimate Bet (as well as Absolute Poker), Tokwiro
Enterprises, has made a statement regarding their
investigation of a cheating scandal that took place a
few months back via the back end. While claiming to
rectify the matter, recompensing players and enacting
measures to keep such a scandal from happening again,
Ultimate Bet has still refrained from naming the guilty
party's.
For anybody
unfamiliar with this story, a handful of discerning
players started taking note of some uncanny poker
playing, and with no help from Ultimate Bet, began
investigating the matter on their own. After enough
prying and evidence, Ultimate Bet confessed that several
user accounts had been created to access the software
platform for viewing other players cards.
What makes the
entire situation even more slimy is the fact that
Tokwiro Enterprises also manages Absolute Poker, which
had a cheating scandal of their own not too long back.
The company's owner, Joe Norton, who happens to be the
former Grand Chief of the Kahnawake Indian tribe (yep,
the same tribe that operates the Kahnawake Gaming
Commission), has indeed made it clear that management is
"outraged" about this scandal, namely because the
illicit software used to facilitate the cheating was
placed on the Ultimate Bet software platform servers
prior to Tokwiro acquiring the site from its former
owners.
So while Tokwiro is
attempting to put the blame elsewhere and is not taking
responsibility for the fact that they were not
adequately monitoring player accounts, nobody goes to
jail and everything is honky dory once again. Just like
in the Absolute Poker scandal, the people responsible
for opening the fake user accounts (19 total, with 88
associated usernames), have not been named.
Most players
wouldn't go so far to say that Tokwiro Enterprises is a
crooked establishment promulgating the use of cheating
software. Nor would they rule the possibility completely
out. Until Tokwiro or the Kahnawake Gaming Commission
(who is reportedly carrying out an independent probe)
starts naming some names and being more transparent
about the entire matter, I believe many online gamblers
are going to stay clear from Ultimate Bet and Absolute
Poker.
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