US versus the Three Poker Rooms

[Mousey]

Thanks to all for keeping us updated.

My only comment: What a freaking mess!

[pokeraddict]

Latest statement from Blanca Games out today deals with the Costa Rica raids and the allegedly nefarious doings of the IDS chief:

http://www.marketwire.com/press-rele...ns-1511383.htm

I love this BS quote:

The reported OIJ 'raids' of IDS and various associated private residential addresses were in relation to their search for Rimola, Tom and Vargas, and do not involve Blanca or the operations of Absolute Poker or UB.

What a coincidence they are all a part of the company then.

Absolute Poker and UB continue to operate their non-U.S. facing business around the world.

It seems they are continuing to operate their U.S. facing business as well since U.S. players can still play there, something AP/UB seem to ignore with the releases about banning them.

Can anyone really believe the garbage this group spews?

http://www.absolutepokerscandal.com/statements.html

The result of our investigation is that we found no evidence that any of Absolute Poker’s redundant and varying levels of game client security were compromised. In other words, we have determined with reasonable certainty that it is impossible for any player or employee to see hole cards as was alleged. There is no part of the technology that allows for a “superuser” account, and there is no way for any person to influence the game software to their advantage.

They made this statement against plainly obvious proof. They finally retracted it but have never fully announced their findings or openly accused anyone. Why would they? The person most involved was and seems to still be running the company.

They have also repeatedly denied that any of the founders were still involved but yet it has come out that Scott Tom runs the show at AP/UB and his relative Brent Beckley, who has been there from the start, was indicted with him over the payment processing. Both were indicted and Brent was referred to in an email dated April 29th, 2011 from IDS.

This group has denied that they are broke but yet have stiffed yet another debt holder (Madeira Fjord) after stiffing the Exscapa holding group from the sale of Ultimate Bet. They have also paid very little to non U.S. players and nothing to U.S. players.

I would rather players get paid over AP/UB and/or the DOJ taking it but it will be hard to feel sorry for anyone that has money on this site and loses it.