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08/01/2010		Online Casino Style: News Poker Scam Uncovered on Forum
Home History Games News Dictionary		As Poker Stars is one of the most popular internet gambling brands in the world (arguably the biggest) their security systems are top notch, and their ability to protect information is without stain. However, a surprising report was confirmed to the internet casino news community this week as a large scale cheating scam that profited from Poker Stars’ online casino was discovered and shut down, based out of China, of all places. The news first hit the poker message forums at 2-Plus-2, which rumored that Poker Stars had uncovered a scheme involving more than a dozen Chinese players, working together to cheat. According to them, the players had managed to profit by nearly $750,000 by the time they were discovered, but prompt action by the security teams at Poker Stars have ended their winning streak. Those fellow poker players cheated by playing with the ring on the internet casino have already been contacted, and will reportedly be reimbursed their lost funds, totaling to about $587,000. The ring supposedly started up last year, in November, preying primarily on unsuspecting members in the $108 Double or Nothing sit and go tournaments. Complaints from other players may have been recorded in relation to the ring as early as February of this year, though the investigation is still under way. The beginning of the end was actually a member of the ring’s mistake: poster Jane0123 wrote on the 2-Plus-2 forum that Poker Stars had frozen access to more than $10,000 in winnings – and for good reason. Many other poker players recognized Jane’s screen name and promptly responded, claiming that Jane had beat out all of them, all of them in similar games. Later data scanning showed that Jane had played 11,766 Double or Nothing tournaments, betting an average stake of just $87, and walking away with profits of more than $56K. Jane wasn’t the only one, as Poker Stars looked into the matter, discovering a number of other regular big winners, including player Wudiya. They’d been working together, colluding to profit against unsuspecting victims. Of all the scams, collusion rings can often be hard to detect, because often there is no way to identify that seemingly unrelated screen names could be working together. In this case, most of the players have been tracked back to the Chinese town of Hangzhou, and Poker Stars said that as many as half of the players in the DoN games could have been in the ring.

08/01/2010

Online Casino Style: News
Poker Scam Uncovered on Forum

As Poker Stars is one of the most popular internet gambling brands in the world (arguably the biggest) their security systems are top notch, and their ability to protect information is without stain. However, a surprising report was confirmed to the internet casino news community this week as a large scale cheating scam that profited from Poker Stars’ online casino was discovered and shut down, based out of China, of all places.

The news first hit the poker message forums at 2-Plus-2, which rumored that Poker Stars had uncovered a scheme involving more than a dozen Chinese players, working together to cheat. According to them, the players had managed to profit by nearly $750,000 by the time they were discovered, but prompt action by the security teams at Poker Stars have ended their winning streak. Those fellow poker players cheated by playing with the ring on the internet casino have already been contacted, and will reportedly be reimbursed their lost funds, totaling to about $587,000.

The ring supposedly started up last year, in November, preying primarily on unsuspecting members in the $108 Double or Nothing sit and go tournaments. Complaints from other players may have been recorded in relation to the ring as early as February of this year, though the investigation is still under way. The beginning of the end was actually a member of the ring’s mistake: poster Jane0123 wrote on the 2-Plus-2 forum that Poker Stars had frozen access to more than $10,000 in winnings – and for good reason.

Many other poker players recognized Jane’s screen name and promptly responded, claiming that Jane had beat out all of them, all of them in similar games. Later data scanning showed that Jane had played 11,766 Double or Nothing tournaments, betting an average stake of just $87, and walking away with profits of more than $56K. Jane wasn’t the only one, as Poker Stars looked into the matter, discovering a number of other regular big winners, including player Wudiya.

They’d been working together, colluding to profit against unsuspecting victims. Of all the scams, collusion rings can often be hard to detect, because often there is no way to identify that seemingly unrelated screen names could be working together. In this case, most of the players have been tracked back to the Chinese town of Hangzhou, and Poker Stars said that as many as half of the players in the DoN games could have been in the ring.