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Online poker cheating blamed on employee

AbsolutePoker.com says ‘geek’ hacked system to prove it could be done


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Watch an animated re-creation of an Absolute Poker tournament in which cheating occurred and hear David Matthews, a professional poker and blackjack player from Las Vegas, describe the edge that a player who could see his opponents’ cards would have in Texas holdem and dissect one hand that he found particularly suspicious.
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In a case that illustrates the perils of online betting, a leading Internet poker site said Friday that a hacker exploited a security flaw to gain an insurmountable edge in high-stakes, no-limit Texas holdem tournaments — the ability to see his opponents’ hole cards.
The cheater, whose illegitimate winnings were estimated at between $400,000 and $700,000 by one victim, was an employee of AbsolutePoker.com who hacked the system to show that it could be done, said a spokesman for the company, who spoke with msnbc.com on condition of anonymity.
“This is literally a geek trying to prove to senior management that they were wrong and he took it too far,” he said.

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