Just as the Absolute Poker cheating scandal is finishing up with the Kahnawake Gaming Commission Report, we have new allegations of a superuser account at UltimateBet were the account has access to other players hole cards. This story just broke and doesn't yet have the overwhelming evidence that the Absolute Poker scandal has.
The allegations center on a player with the nickname ?NioNio?, who allegedly beat several top online professionals in a high stakes no limit game on UltimateBet using a very unusual playing style. The allegations are posted on the 2+2 forums.
Excerpt from dlpnyc21?s post on 2+2:
"I will post the highlights from the original thread. To be clear, trambo and I believe we were victims of a superuser who could see our cards. Others believe there was highly highly suspicious play/winrate/stats from Nionio on ub from the period of july-september. We have around 3k hands during which time nionio was up 300k. This alone would be a massive heater for anyone at 25/50 and 50/100 but what?s more surprising is that he played another 5k hands (which we do not have right now but know he played based on mypokerintel) at THE SAME WIN RATE. This means that potentially he took over 700k out of the games. He brutalized all the best and winngest players on the site. If you want more hand histories, email omniheart or myself or trambopoline. The most damaging evidence so far is the HU session vs. trambo, where he plays ?perfectly? (in the worlds of trambo), floating/raising every time trambo tried to bluff/folding when trambo had good hands.
He is up massively v. myself, trambo, arbian night, whee, cts, basically any respected 2p2er he destroyed. For a LOT of $."
Trambopoline states in a separate thread that he has been in contact with Phil Hellmuth about it.
Excerpt:
"Anyways after tracking down Phil at the tables I finally got a hold of him, this time for real. I just got off the phone wiht him after speaking with him for well over an hour. He informed me that he understands I made an honest mistake and totally forgives me, and even informed me to post that he said so. We went over the accounts in question and I got to say, he was very suspicous to say the least. . He informed me that UB has already started an investigation and that info should be released within the next few weeks. He is going to call me again within the next 1-3 days. That is all im going to comment on the issue right now, once again im terribly terribly sorry and I hope this does not tarnish my name"
Both UltimateBet and Absolute Poker are owned by the same company. Again this story just broke and we'll keep you posted as it develops.