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In October of 2007, a horrible cheating scandal was uncovered at Absolute Poker. The news of this scandal made national headlines. Since then, everything is different regarding attitudes about online poker cheating. Can you feel the difference?

In case you’ve been hiding under a rock, I’ll briefly tell you what happened. During an tournament at Absolute Poker, some players suspected another player of cheating. After the tournament, the player who finished second filed a complaint and requested a copy of hand histories for the tournament. In return, Absolute Poker inadvertently sent him more data than just hand histories. The information they supplied showed a cheating scheme that linked directly back to Absolute Poker itself.

Here’s how the cheating took place: An observer came into this poker room and informed the winning player of all hole cards during the tournament. And this observer was in cahoots with Absolute Poker; his IP address and account name traced to the servers that host Absolute Poker. In other words, an insider had access to all hole cards in real time, and he relayed that information to an outside accomplice.
No wonder this story made big news. No wonder the poker world is again abuzz with talk about cheating.

Regarding the question of whether or not cheating online ever happens, there used to be a variety of opinions. According to poker authority Byron Badd, writing for Gambling911: “Cheating at online poker really doesn’t happen that often. You hear all the time that people feel they got cheated, but more often than not it is a complaint about a bad beat. Cheating will always be part of poker whether it is online or at a local cardroom, but it usually doesn’t happen very often and is not something you need to worry about when you are at the table.” An opposing view was expressed by Jonathan M. Katz in Slate Magazine: “In an anonymous world where everyone is after your money, and where lying and preying on the weak are encouraged, it’s easy to get paranoid that others are cheating. And in fact, others are cheating.” As far as detecting these cheaters, Steven D. Levitt writing for the New York Times blog, said this: “One of the projects I’ve been engaged in lately is trying to catch players who are cheating in online poker. It turned out to be harder than I thought it would be to catch online poker cheats.”

But now, in today’s new climate following this widely publicized scandal, these discussions are moot. No educated individual can now argue convincingly that online poker cheating never occurs. It does. Obviously. And everyone knows it does. This knowledge has dramatically changed the landscape regarding cheating at online poker.

In years past, the usual question has been: Is cheating online possible? And the commonly-held answer among supposedly knowledgeable individuals has been: No. Now, following the Absolute Poker debacle, the question being asked is more like: Since cheating is happening, how might I protect myself from being cheated? Or maybe even this question: Since cheating is all around me, how can I, myself, cheat?

Yes, attitudes are different now than they were prior to news of this scandal. There is much greater acceptance of the concept of cheating in online poker rooms. There is heightened awareness of the possibilities. More people are asking: Can I cheat too? With all this cheating happening, how might I get in there and get a piece of the pie? Should I educate myself on the matter of poker cheating? Am I being naive if I am one of the few players who still believes the possibility of cheating is remote? These are good questions. I hear them asked all the time now.

Attitudes have changed, which is good-news, bad-news. It is good news because it is based in truth, and truth is always good. The truth: There exist ways to cheat online, even today, and there are unscrupulous people willing to take advantage of those ways. The more the online poker community recognizes this truth, the better.

But this change in attitude is also bad news. The bad news is that more people are now apt to try some means of online cheating. If that is a result of this new heightened awareness, it is most unfortunate.

After all, one fact remains unchanged. It remains undeniably true that cheating is despicable activity. Nothing could ever change that abiding truth. Cheating, even when possible, is never advisable. Cheating is immoral. A cheater, at poker or any other area of life, is a person to be despised. There is nothing admirable or cool about a cheater. The best advice is this: If you don’t know how to cheat, don’t learn. If you do know how to cheat, don’t do it anyway.

Be aware of this change in attitude regarding poker cheating. You are likely to hear new talk about various ways to cheat. Be alert to this discussion coming your way. You will hear it in poker rooms. You will hear it in forums. You will hear it in personal correspondence. But hearing it does not mean that you, yourself, need to be a part of it. And it certainly does not mean that you, yourself, need to be among those who actually cheat. You cannot control the actions of others, but you can control your own actions. I urge you to resist the temptation to cheat. Play fair, and enjoy the magnificent game of poker in its pure, uncorrupted splendor.



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Before, i havent played absolute poker for a while and they automatically put money into my account just for me. It wasnt a bonus or anything but they did it twice…is this just a way to get me back to the tables and how often do they do it?

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Daphne Greene asked:


While Poker has the WSOP, surfing has its own prestigious ongoing tournament called the ASP. Poker has dozens of seasoned pros that continue to dominate tournaments such as Phil Hellmuth, Johnny Chang, David Pham and Juan Carlos Mortensen while surfing boasts its own slew of living legends that continue to dominate surf contests such as Andy Irons, Kelly Slater, Taj Burrow, Joel Parkinson and Mick Fanning. Getting to these tournaments for anybody is no easy feat and the competition for the contestants is always fierce. Part II will explore the similarities of these tournaments and the various strategies these gladiators must undertake in order to be true champions.

ASP

The Association of Surfing Professionals, most commonly referred to as the ASP, is widely regarded as the most prestigious surfing circuit in the world. Although many of the surf contests run by the ASP end up being battled out in sloppy three foot waves, they also score some of the most perfect and challenging waves in the world. When the conditions all come together spectators are given the treat of watching the absolute best surfers on the planet battle it out in some of the most incredible and dangerous waves the ocean has to offer.

The ASP began its road to creation in 1960s when structured competitions in surfing were just barely making their mark on the surfing world. During this decade surfers were competing purely because they were crazy about the sport and wanted to prove themselves to their peers. There were no sponsors and most definitely no surfing industry. In the early 1970s more and more structured competitions with monetary compensation began to emerge, and by the mid-1970s events started popping up all over the world. The loose agglomeration of tournaments was strung together in 1976 in what proved to be the embryonic stages of the ASP, and the rest is just history.

Just like the WSOP, there are dozens of roads to make it to the ASP. Almost all of the surfers that you see competing in the ASP circuit started off as young surfers battling it out when they were little grommets (surfer slang for a kid surfer) in tournaments at home as well as abroad for the more privileged. They keep earning their stripes until they are old enough (or good enough) to compete in the prestigious WQS (World Qualifying Series) circuit. The WQS is where the world’s best up and coming surfers froth at each other for a chance at earning a place in the ASP. Some of the best surfers in the world never make it out of the WQS and into the ASP, not because they aren’t great surfers but because they cannot perform under the added pressure of contest surfing.

For instance Dave Rastovich - considered by many to be one of the best and most stylish surfers in the world - opts to not even try to compete in tournaments. He earns a living simply as a freesurfer. Bruce Irons is an excellent example of a world class surfer that has trouble remaining in the ASP: Bruce, brother of Andy Irons, is an absolute animal in the water, known for pulling in deep into some of the most treacherous and shallow barrels in the business. Yet, for some unbelievable reason Bruce Irons consistently underperforms in nearly every single contest he enters.

The reason being is that it takes a very special type of surfer to win competitions that are basically at the highest level. There are less than 50 surfers that make it to the ASP world tour every year and to actually consistently win amongst the top surfers in the world is no easy feat. There is a degree of mental alacrity and competitiveness that such a surfer must have in order to maintain such consistent placements.

WSOP

Anybody with a television set these days has heard about the World Series of Poker - one can barely turn on the TV without seeing at least a couple of poker tournaments being fought out and more often than not the competitors are frothing over each other for a chance at winning a WSOP bracelet. It is not a single tournament, but rather a series of tournaments that are played annually in Las Vegas, lasting just over a month. A bracelet is awarded to the winner of each of the fifty-plus events which include all of the major varieties of poker. The series culminates of the $10,000 no-limit hold’em “Main Event”, which in recent years has attracted thousands of entrants who want a chance at the multi-million dollar prize. Winning this event is the pinnacle of any card player’s career.

Just like the ASP, the WSOP’s origins start way back towards the end of the 1960s. The original WSOP started in 1968 by Tom Moore of San Antonio Texas, and it was an invitational event held at the Holiday Hotel and Casino in Reno, Nevada. This first inaugural event was won by Crandell Addington, who went on to place in the top ten of the WSOP Main Event an impressive eight times. His record stands to this day.

The series of tournaments that gradually came to be known as the WSOP began to evolve under the brainchild of Las Vegas, Benny Binion. Binion, a casino owner and poker player, helped to nurture the WSOP as well as the game of poker itself by changing the status quo: prior to the 1970s poker wasn’t found at many casinos because they could not keep cheaters out, but Binion changed the security systems at casinos and now poker is one of the most popular games in the world let alone in casinos.

Just like with surfing, there are two different kinds of poker players. There are players who almost exclusively play cash games or online and tend to stay away from the big live tournaments because, frankly, they just aren’t good at them. In surfing, those who tend to stray from the big competitions are called “soul surfers”. I’m not sure if there are “soul poker players” but there might be. Regardless, just like surfing has many ASP legends so does poker. Some of the best known competitors at the WSOP include Phil Hellmuth who, with 11 bracelets, has won more WSOP events than any other poker player in history. Not far behind are runners-up Doyle Brunson and Johnny Chan with ten bracelets each.

Although there may not be “soul poker players”, there are definitely those who are able to maintain a formidable reputation solely playing online and hardly bother to show up for the WSOP events. Some of these players include Chad “M8kingmoves” Batista, and Sorel “imper1um” Mizzi, Luke “resteal” Abolins and Eric “Rizen” Lynch.

The main difference between the WSOP and ASP is that you don’t have to qualify to play in the WSOP: anybody with an extra $10,000 lying around can have a go at a gold bracelet if they so please. The reality is that the vast majority of players that compete in the WSOP have been playing cards a long time and are using their winnings from previous tournaments and online play in order to afford the buy-in. On the other hand, just like the ASP has the WQS instated so that it can filter in hot up and coming rookies into the ASP, there are countless satellite tournaments available all over the internet that can and often to help players make it to the WSOP. A simple tournament on Full Tilt Poker can start a player on a path that could lead them all the way to Las Vegas. There are accounts of several players that have made it all the way to the final table of a WSOP tournament and they merely started out by playing small satellite tournaments online to get there.

Strategy

It’s no coincidence that surfing and poker see the same faces placing in the top ten every single year. More for poker than for surfing, this is proof that the best in the business are not there because of some kind of fluke: they have found a way to master a game and can consistently beat the top 0.1% of competitors. Yet, what does it take to actually win an ASP world title or the WSOP Main Event?

First and foremost, anybody that wins such prestigious events has been endowed with exceptional natural abilities from God, Brahman, the Universe, Allah, Buddha or whatever entity you choose to worship. Secondly, these competitors have all spent hours upon hours honing their already unnatural skills.

The final ingredient is a fierce competitive nature. Although many of us would certainly like to paddle out in a deadly 10 foot pipeline, the truth is that most people are just simply not willing to put their bodies in that kind of danger to prove to the world that they’re a good surfer. The same can be said of poker. It may not be as life threatening, but some of the best poker players have had to sacrifice a great deal in their lives and risk huge sums of money to get to where they are. It may not be physical danger, but financial danger that poker players risk.

When surfers are locked in a heated world title race, the competition can get unbelievably intense. Surfers begin paddling over each other trying to get their rival to miss a wave, they yell at each other and get surprisingly physical for a non-contact sport. In poker, players must have the ability to stare their opponent down in a heads up battle for hours on end, and some are known for making their opponents go on tilt through chatter or rudeness.

Point being that have a run at a world title or a bracelet is immensely challenging, but to actual take home the grand prize a competitor must want it with all of their heart and have the mental strength to not break their concentration.



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