Hi 888 rep
This morning I had an experience in one of your satellites, which led me to suspect, that the same player or group of players are controlling at least 5 different accounts on your site. I tried to contact your support via email, but after writing a long message, it was apparently not send, so I kindly request, that you send this over for me, since this has worked before.
What happened was, I registered to a 5,5$ satellite rewarding 55$ tournament tickets around 10 minutes before, it was supposed to begin. Nobody else had registered, and I was kind of expecting it to be cancelled, which often happen to these satellites. However in the nick of time 5 more players showed up, so that the satellite reached its minimum of 6 players.
In the first hand I folded, and then 3 other players went all in with some pretty random
hands. The hand history containing all relevant information is at the bottom of my post. What this apparently does is to close late registration, because the tournament is now only 2 from the money. Its 2 tickets guarantied. This is obviously very advantageous for the remaining 4 players, since players have now only contributed 33$ to the 110$ price pool. I have seen this happen twice before but with other players involved.
Maybe sometimes its just a silent understanding among players, that this behaviour is good for everyone on the table at the expense of 888 Poker. But this time I noticed, that the 3 remaining players all had the same nationality, and I had never played with any of them before. This in itself is a bit strange, since I have played a lot on 888 Poker. They also turned out to be very solid players, which made me feel, that it was definitely strange, I had never seen any of them before.
So I looked up the 5 accounts on
sharkscope, and they show some fairly glaring similarities. They have all played somewhere around 250-450 tournaments for roughly the same average buyin, and they all seem to have a preference for satellites like this and then also 10c BLAST games. Which in itself is a pretty weird and rare combination to see.
I cant say, that the 3 remaining players clearly colluded against me, but if the accounts are in fact controlled by the same player or group of players, this is obviously a violation of fundamental game rules. So I encourage your security team to look into this and perhaps ask the owners of these 5 accounts to verify their identity, if this has not been done already.
***** 888poker.se Hand History for Game 1171197284 *****
15/30 Blinds No Limit Holdem - *** 31 10 2021 05:25:49
Tournament #198273564 $5 + $0.50 - Table #1 9 Max (
real money)
Seat 10 is the button
Total number of players : 6
Seat 2: rsolk ( 3,000 )
Seat 3: mellitq ( 3,000 )
Seat 4: fundiver198 ( 3,000 )
Seat 6: cruij ( 3,000 )
Seat 9: popkornova ( 3,000 )
Seat 10: korobo4ekk ( 3,000 )
popkornova posts ante [3]
rsolk posts ante [3]
cruij posts ante [3]
mellitq posts ante [3]
korobo4ekk posts ante [3]
fundiver198 posts ante [3]
rsolk posts small blind [15]
mellitq posts big blind [30]
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to fundiver198 [ 4s, Kc ]
fundiver198 folds
cruij raises [2,997]
popkornova folds
korobo4ekk calls [2,997]
rsolk folds
mellitq calls [2,967]
** Dealing flop ** [ 2h, 8d, 6s ]
** Dealing turn ** [ 5c ]
** Dealing river ** [ 5d ]
** Summary **
mellitq shows [ 7h, 4h ]
cruij shows [ Jc, 8s ]
korobo4ekk shows [ Ah, Qh ]
mellitq collected [ 9,024 ]