The Poker Cheat Who Could See Every Card (And Got Away With It)
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#AbsolutePoker #documentary #OnlinePokerScandal #PokerFraud September 12, 2007. A player named POTRIPPER plays 93 hands of poker and wins 56 of them. He never loses a single showdown. His odds of doing this by chance: 1 in 10 to the power of 44. That number isn't rare. It's impossible. And the reason why exposes one of the most audacious insider frauds in internet history. In the late 1990s, six Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity brothers at the University of Montana hatched a plan. Scott Tom, a finance major, recruited his stepbrother Brent Beckley and four others. Working from a basement in Seattle, they launched AbsolutePoker.com in 2003 with a $10,000 freeroll. Within three years, membership grew 40% per month. By 2006, the site was pulling in $800,000 per day. They were days away from being the next Zuckerberg. But buried inside their software, hidden since the beginning, was an account called User #363. The 363rd account ever created on the platform. A debugging tool that was never
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