[Breakage]

I have been an avid online player in the past.

But I always stayed in the lower limits except if I saw a really live one at the higher tables,

likewise I was an ultimate bet player-I am very, very fortunate to not have been cheated here.

The guy who says how he saw this loose cannon and could not wait to get in there and get his money-that is me. When I used to play a lot, the key was to look arouund and find bad players, regardless of level of play. In the early days while people were still trying to figure out strategies, I was posting it doesn't matter just find players who understand the game less than yourself.



The real killer to me, is although cheating is obviously easier online than in real brick and mortar rooms-I really believed that these people at the very least would look at people's win rates, compare them to some normal and vigorously investigate vast differences.

Cheating has broken out before and crushed the room, PlanetPoker was the first online commercial site and it doomed itself because of some programming code that got out there that enabled some to cheat. To me that means spend money on dilligently patrolling site or risk losing it completely. I went onto Ultimatebet last night while the report was running and although bsuiness is down, they have not gotten crushed.

Likewise, I feel Dutch Boyd and his stealing all his players money from Pokerspot.com, then showing up to play in several world series of poker as if nothing happened,
probably put it into Hamilton's head that even if caught nothing would happen.

and this is in some part to the complete lack of journalistic integrity at ESPN,
where they ignore stuff like Boyd stole millions and instead promote him as graduating from Harvard or whereever it was at age 17.


Nothing in that report was news to me, I have followed this closely for a while,
the potripper mistake email has been hashed out many, many times and many conclude that it was a purposeful whistle blowing type of event.



and the best of all Croft's repeated assertions of unregulated, unlicsened et al,
as if they were legal and licensed in the US would have prevented this from happening,
make me wanna vomit.