I played in the $50,000 guarantee tournament on sunday and noticed an overwhelming amount of players who were all from Quito, Ecuador in the tourney who were all chatting with one another across tables throughout the tourney. I thought this was odd so between hands I began doing some research and found that there was about 20 players from Quito which all appeared to be friends, what was really alarming was the overwhelming amount of them who all included the word "FLOP" in their screen name.
PATYFLOP
CAPTAIN FLOP
PAPA OSO FLOP
XAVFLOP77
CARLITOS FLOP
NEGRA FLOP
ORLY FLOP
ANSHO
OBIWAN UIO
DESMADRES
MURRI11
ECU3233
DJ JUCABU
NOWITSOVER
ARESTIJIO
MALDITO1
ELGUILLE
MIPANA
JUAN MONEY MAKER
All players from Quito and every single one of them posted in the chat log at the final table as CAPTAIN FLOP and PAPA OSO FLOP played for the $15,000 prize.
Appears to be some type of colluded syndicate play in which a player could gain an advantage when playing a hand if he were to know the hole cards of another player at the table who has folded his hand, imagine if you had a gut shot straight draw and you knew that your friend at the table had folded one of the 4 cards that could make your hand.
I contacted Bookmaker about my suspicion and they referred me to support at TRUEPOKER who reviewed the issue and listed it as low priority. The case has been closed and I have heard nothing of the outcome so I am under the impression that they do not care who wins or how they win it as long as they get their rake.
Just thought I would give people the heads up because this seems shady to me and it puts the player at a huge disadvantage. 5Dimes and the Cris group all use this network so you may want to think twice about playing in tournaments with anyone using this network.