When it comes to bring developments to the scandal of Super User Accounts rooms Absolute Poker and Ultimate Bet, you can count on DonkDown Radio, Haley Hintze, and Joe Sebok. In recent weeks, these three promoters have added further fuel to the fire by removing many gray areas on the biggest case of cheating ever committed in the history of online poker. The latest progress of the investigation reveal further acts of cheating and make new suspicions against Greg Pierson, the director’s original UltimateBet.
Trafficking password
On Wednesday, March 16, 2011, Radio DonkDown revisiting the idea previously presented by Travis Makar employees of UltimateBet had committed acts of cheating that goes well beyond the scandal super user accounts. According DonkDown Radio, employees identified cheaters player accounts with a balance extremely high, accessing these accounts by changing their passwords to then transfer money into their own personal account or by performing a transfer between accounts, or making the chip dumping tables. To carry out this crime, employees of Ultimate Bet sent the players targeted a “security alert” email stating that the password for their account had been preemptively changed the room itself for security reasons.
To substantiate his remarks posted on his website DonkDown an email security in question belonging to a user who cheated Ultimate Bet has corroborated the allegations of cheating Makar who continued well after the replacement of the management team the room as indicated by the timing of the email in question.
From: “UB” <Security@ub.com>
To: <XXXXX@XXXX.com>
Subject: Your password reset WAS
Date: Sat, December 5, 2009 -0500 5:15:30 p.m.
Dear XXXXXX,
As a security measure, your password has-beens and Securely Randomly reset by The System. Your temporary password is ********. Please log Into your account using this temporary password. We Strongly recommend Changing your password to a more personalized and Easier to remember password as soon as you log in. To modify your password, Simply select “Update Profile” from the “My Account” menu and click it Then the “Change Password” link. If There Is Anything Else We Can Help You With, please do not hesitate to contact us via email at security@ub.com. Always we are here to assist you.
We look forward to seeing you again soon at the Table!
Sincerely,
The UB Team
security@ub.com
“For security, your password has been changed automatically by our system. Your temporary password is ********. Login to your account using the new password. We strongly recommend that you to change this temporary password and choose a personalized password and therefore easier to memorized as soon as possible. To change your password, select “Update Profile” in the menu “My Account” and click on “change my password.” If you have any questions, please contact by email at the following address: security@ub.com. ”
While this email in itself can not be considered as evidence, the player who provided explains that his attempts to obtain further information regarding this change password have been in vain, simply ignored by UB. Todd Wittels, co-presenter DonkDown provides many examples on the Radio Forum of the benefits that can remove the cheaters from a change of password, and specifies that Full Tilt Poker or Pokerstars never change the passwords their users on their own initiative. This new discovery provides unquestionably the grist allegations of Makar.
Sebok addresses TwoPlusTwo
Encouraged by his friend Shane Schleger, Joe Sebok has started a thread on the forum twoplustwo.com to post their own comments on the investigation into the scandal of super users accounts.
In that thread, Sebok summarizes the main facts about UlitmateBet superuser scandal which are summarized below:
He admits that the new management staff of UB has made mistakes but do not think in any case:
a) the staff has actively assisted the cheats to commit or conceal their actions
b) has falsified the historical hands to cover acts of cheating
c) has attempted to conceal the facts to minimize damages and reimbursements related to acts of cheating
• UB Sebok and hopes that all information relating to the investigation are revealed
• UB does not censor, do not support and do not control what is said or Sebok
• Sebok continues to believe that the leadership of UB have nothing to do with the previous leaders
• TwoPlusTwo Sebok explained that he will answer questions posed by users twoplustwo the extent reasonable.
Sebok has indeed answered the questions of choice and tried to gather the facts of the scandal super user accounts in a coherent puzzle. Questions and answers are compiled in a thread that has received considerable attention during these days and can be read in its entirety on twoplustwo .
Assumptions Haley Hintze, Volume 30
Haley Hintze was probably one of the most zealous investigators in connection with the case of super users and no doubt as needed as the lead authority in this situation. On his blog, Hintze has posted a substantial amount of information in a folder titled “Just Conjecturin.” (Hypotheses). In Volume 30 of its report entitled “Naming Names – Greg Pierson (give names), Hintze said Greg Pierson, president and ieLogic iovation, the firm engaged in the management of UB and AP computers, linked very close to the case of the Super User Accounts.
A history of sex?
In his blog, Hintze explains how the wife of Greg Pierson, Janelle Lynn Pierson, had to engage in lengthy and expensive legal battle after having had an affair with a schoolboy whom she was the teacher. This case would have plunged the couple Pierson in dire financial situation and this could well be the motivation that initiated the scandal super users accounts.
Hintze then mentioned the fact that Pierson, thanks to its favorable position occupied within the company would have had all the latitude necessary to develop the program with God Mode Russ Hamilton and his accomplices Matloubi Mansour. Holding the reins in the gasworks of computer programming, Pierson would have secured the cooperation of Hamilton and Matloubi, the two bosses Executive Ultimate Bet to insert the program code God Mode within the software client to beginning the vast operation of cheating.
Hintze also suggests that eventually cooled Pierson and threatened by the discovery of super users accounts would allow others to commit acts of cheating to cover his tracks and ensure coverage, leaving Hamilton in particular front line. Hintze’s argument, we simply summarize here, is widely supported by a series of many facts and circumstances which may constitute real evidence that encourage and strongly support his hypothesis.