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PokerStars: Suspicious Player in TCOOP Event Not Bot After All
Posted by: James Carter. - Sun, 2016-01-31 08:56
PokerStars have been tightening up their anti-botting policy lately, with one of their newly instituted measures raising quite a bit of controversy in poker circles. Apparently however, their anti third-party software drive is by no means misdirected: on the second day of this year's Turbo Championship of Online Poker (TCOOP) a heads-up showdown occurred in event #8, the $82
NL Holdem $200k Gtd, when of the two players who reached the heads-up stage, one acted in an extremely peculiar manner, raising suspicion that it was a bot they were dealing with.
The two players involved were Finland's LuckboxStami and IvanHaldi from Russia, and the botting suspicions fell on the latter. With everyone else out of the way, LuckboxStami decided to call upon a PokerStars host to draw up a deal with the figures for both players with 4k left in the middle to play for.
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With the numbers on the table, LuckboxStami immediately accepted the deal, but his opponent was silent. The host then attempted to contact the player in a variety of ways before the action was finally allowed to commence.
At the end of the day, despite the fact that the deal he was going for fell through, LuckboxStami got the better end of it all: he won the event hands-down, taking down a $48k prize, instead of the ~$44k he would've gotten had he won with the deal in place.
Needless to say, the incident led to a great deal of scrutiny, as the Russian player in question was active in another event too at that time. Thus far however, based on their in-depth investigations, PokerStars have concluded the player was indeed human, if somewhat socially challenged.
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