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This situation provides months or years worth of fuel for the “online poker is rigged’ crowd.

It comes at the worst time for the American players and the PPA. Just when they are making progress… BOOM!

What I find most appalling though is that in spite of all the evidence and the admission of a major breach in AP’s security, there has been no significant drop in their player base. There has been very little public outcry. Most affiliates continue to promote Absolute.

It makes me wonder what it would really take to get the online poker community stirred up or outraged….

Like I said, a sad time for online poker.

http://pokerworks.com/article-1367.html

Granted I play no where near the stakes that people would want to use a superaccount at, but the security of my ill-gotten funds deserves at least a fair gamble.

Like the penny slots at InterCasino.com

By the way, the semi-substantiated rumors I am now hearing are that various Absolute bad guys are moving to Panama and changing their names. (Seriously.)

This is a perfect example of why online poker legal issues are about so much more than just poker — they are about international finance and legal jurisdictions. I mean it’s not like the United States can just go into a country like Panama and forcibly extract a suspected criminal and force him to face the US Justice system.

Oh, wait a minute …

“This person was the second in charge and has been fired from AP, and his one superior Scott Tom is going to be removed from running AP for a significant period of time. …

This person was Scott Tom’s best friend and actually lived at Scott Tom’s house in Costa Rica. Scott Tom has been living in Panama for quite some time, and the day to day operations of AP were left to the care of his best friend and second in charge at AP. Unfortunately since the person in command of AP was also the thief he obviously issued numerous steadfast denials of any wrong doing. Basically he was investigating himself.”

http://www.egamingtoday.com/Article/AbsolutePoker/P5Update.html

I agree that Mark is in an awkward position. He is doing the right thing by waiting for official statements from Absolute, and I can see him making the right decision once the site gives their final word on it. He’s too smart not to see the forest through the trees here.

I’m sure Mark Seif is merely in the very awkward position of finding that his trust in certain friends has been misplaced.

You’d think Absolute would be a bit quicker in releasing his requested hand history, though. What’s it stored on, punch cards?

My own view is that it was one employeee who got greedy. There are many example of this in every profession but it is unfortunate that this came to light in such a prominent way.