Do you guys know the Story of POTRIPPER ?

Hey !! I heard this story about Potripper and found it pretty fascinating .

Its a old one but kinda interesting .

Check it out here http://www.nbcnews.com/id/21381022/#.UpeTe8QW1qU


Also if interested , check this out http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/2...rs-pre-determined-tournament-winners-1359150/

Yeah of course, my bro used to play on that site is was totally corrupt lol

yep, i tried to get my hands on all the articles i could about what happened after pokerstars, absolute poker, and full tilt poker went down. I had never seen any video clips tho until now. thanks for the post

This is the first time i have ever seen such a video. Thank you mr. poster. May god protect us from the demons that lurk among us.

first time i have see the video like this

fordman427 said:

First time I've seen it, very interesting

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Oh I see Dont let this effect your game like if u had bad beat , thinkin that player might be a SUPer user etc .

Now a days , Major poker sites are Secure , so yeahh Good luck

No offesne but how have you never heard of this? This is one of the biggest stories ever about online poker. I thought everyone knew of it!

Ya it was a pretty sick thing he did. Makes you think what else could be going on behind closed doors on these smaller sites.

dealio96 said:

Ya it was a pretty sick thing he did. Makes you think what else could be going on behind closed doors on these smaller sites.

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Which is why I don't recommend using those until they establish themselves.

Yeah this is like the boogeyman story online poker players tell their kids around campfires. Very well known for years.

I wouldn't expect it to happen anywhere else, not under the same circumstances anyway. First, the industry witnessed the near implosion of AP/UB and the horrible PR that followed them to Black Friday, afterwhich they ceased to exist. Second, the vast majority of small sites can't afford to develop their own poker software, which is why most license a network skin. They don't have access to either the client code or server code. The backdoor was coded into the server backend by the original software developers, ostensibly for debugging purposes. Russ' IT guy discovered it and wrote a tool for Russ and his select friends to use to cheat with it. It would be virtually impossible these days for a rogue employee to set something like this up and not be caught. Remember that potripper was caught by players noticing odd play and comparing their tracker databases -- this is why we keep telling people that all other reasons aside for poker not to be rigged, the fact they couldn't rig it and get it past the players analyzing millions of hands every day should be enough to convince you all by itself.

If you play online poker, you accept some degree of risk that you'll lose money due to cheating, corruption or dishonesty in various forms. And it's up to you to control your risk as best you can while realizing you can't eliminate it completely.