GRIMARD FINGERED IN ABSOLUTE POKER CHEATING ISSUE (Update)

2 November 2007

Incommunicado and reportedly in Canada


One of Absolute Poker's principal outlets for 'unofficial' company statements, the gambling information portal 911, has come out openly in identifying allegedly terminated employee AJ Green aka Alan John Grimard, describing him as: "The culprit in a notorious Absolute Poker 'internal cheating' scandal" and carrying his photograph on its website.

The website claims that Grimard has been located in his native Canada and gives his Hotmail email address, apparently provided by a former colleague at Nine.com who from his comments clearly has a personal dislike for the Canadian. 911 wisely stops short of publishing more details, although these are apparently within its knowledge.

Implicit in the accusation is the presumption that Grimard, who worked for Absolute Poker, is the "trusted consultant" to which earlier Absolute Poker statements referred when the online poker site finally admitted that the playing community was correct in deducing that significant cheating had taken place in a poker tournament. Evidence suggested that a player in the tournament could see other players' hole cards.

No further word has been heard on Scott Tom, the other shadowy figure linked to Absolute Poker and the cheating scandal by player community sleuthing.

Investigations into the incident by gaming audit experts Gaming Associates, commissioned for the task by the Kahnawake Gaming Commission, are believed to be ongoing, although the licensing jurisdiction as not issued any further reports to date.

Absolute Poker is wholly owned by Tokwiro Enterprises ENRG, a Kahnawake company owned by the former chief of the Mohawks who figured in the introduction of the KGC as a licensing jurisdiction.

Emails sent to the email address alleged to be Grimard's and inviting his side of the story have thus far gone unanswered.

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