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New UltimateBet cheating details
Posted by: James Carter. - Fri, 2011-03-04 12:24
The Ultimate Bet/
Absolute Poker cheating scandal took place years ago, and the whole thing ended by being pinned on Russ Hamilton, who pretty much took all the blame and the fallout in its wake. Was the Russ Hamilton theory the entire truth though? Apparently not. As new details continue to emerge courtesy of Travis Makar, the computer programmer who worked for Ultimate Bet and Russ Hamilton and who had himself owned several accounts involved in the cheating. An ex-cheater turned whistleblower, possessing the technical prowess that he does, Makar has probably had first-hand insight into the cheating like no one else.
The latest hammer he dropped was an email sent on September 8, 2005, with a copy of the registry file which supposedly turned on God-mode in the
Ultimate Bet software, and directions on how to install it.
The email was sent to two people whose names were blacked out in the screenshots provided and were replaced with Superuser 1 and Superuser 2.
The email was clear evidence that the cheating was much more wide spread than the investigators back then made them out to be. According to Haley Hintze, who has done her own share of research in the superuser scandal, the two names in the email were those of Mansour Matloubi and Ultimate Bet founder Greg Pierson.
The fact that one only needed to install a windows registry file to gain access to God mode suggests that scores of people could have taken part in the cheating (and probably did).
That would also explain why UB are so keen on pinning the entire affair on Hamilton, the scape-goat. The fact that only a registry entry was needed for the cheating also contradicts UB’s claims that there was a third party program running on UB’s servers (installed and enabled without the knowledge of the site officials and auditors), which enabled the cheaters to do their thing.
The only question that remains now is: why is Makar so stingy with the information he releases?
