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The Poker Grapevine – Hacker Takes Negreanu’s PokerStars Account for a Spin
Posted by: James Carter. - Fri, 2012-02-03 15:41
With the Aussie Millions stealing the show and with several of the nosebleed stakes
online poker regulars on an apparent hiatus, the online poker tables barely saw any noteworthy high stakes action last week. That is not to say though that the week went down eventless.
On Monday and on Tuesday, Daniel Negreanu saw quite a bit of action. He showed up quite surprisingly at the $50/$100 and $100/$200 NL Holdem tables and he finished the day as the biggest loser. The one to profit off his woes was wobbly_au, who finished the day with a rather impressive profit of $138k, most of which came from Negreanu. The biggest pot of the day was a $108k whooper which ended up in wobbly_au’s pockets at a 6-handed table. Negreanu was the one who ran an A,Ko into wobbly_au’s pocket rockets after he caught a pair of As on the flop.
Negreanu was playing quite heretically through the day and he managed to drop several other monster pots. In the end, he was about $98k down, having locked up the title of the biggest loser of the day. It wasn’t all gloom and doom for him though: he returned the following day and recovered around $50k of those losses.
It later turned out that the person behind the curiously heretic play wasn’t Negreanu at all. As a matter of fact, Kid Poker was on a plane home as the above said events unfolded. Upon landing, he tweeted that his email account as well as his PokerStars account had been hacked and taken on a joyride by an unknown assailant.
PokerStars are currently investigating the incident, which has put yet another dent into image of the online poker industry. Luckily for everyone, the problem was discovered and addressed in an efficient and timely manner indeed. Exactly how Negreanu shall recover the approximately $46k currently missing from his account, remains to be seen.
