Update On Absolute Poker Investigation

There has been an update on the investigation into Absolute Poker this week by the Kahnawake Gaming Commission who issued Absolute Poker's license. The investigation began after cheating was discovered and those investigating will soon be finished and turn over their findings to the Kahnawake Gaming Commission who will after review decide what course of action to take.

 

In a press release the Kahnawake Gaming Commission stated they will not comment on any of the findings until they have determined the course of action they will take as it could make vulnerable the investigation. They are expecting the final report by the 7^th of December.

 

Absolute Poker has not sat still during this investigation they have done an internal audit into the allegations that there was what is termed a "super user" this is an account where the user could see all of the hole cards.

 

These allegations began on the poker forum 2+2 when players began looking over hand histories from one tournament; they then tracked the player who seemed to have a perfect hand to often throughout the tournament. By tracking the users IP it lead them to what they believed to be a high level employee of Absolute Poker.

 

Absolute Poker then turned over all of their hand histories to the Kahnawake Gaming Commission and their internal investigation turned up an employee that for forty days had breached their security system enabling unfair play for the forty days.