Good Summary of the Cheating scandals at AP and UB
For those who want a summary of the summary:
For those who want a summary of the summary:
- AP and UB are owned by the same company.
- Some high stakes players at both sites noticed that a few of their opponents had win rates that were statistically improbable.
- Analysis of their play suggests (conclusively) that these players could see the other players hole cards.
- The scandal started at AP and AP stridently denied there was anything wrong until a complete hand history (showing everyone's hole cards) for a tournament was released. It was beyond obvious that the tournament winner could see the hole cards of the other players.
- AP finally admitted there was a problem.
- UB continues to deny (or not comment) that anything wrong happened.
- The player accounts for the suspect UB cheaters was made public, and those accounts have all been closed.
- Those accounts had accrued several million dollars in (stolen) winnings prior to being closed.
