There has been a lot of discussion over the last few weeks about the suspicious plays of a handful of players at some of the high stakes cash games and tournaments at Absolute. As you may already be aware, there has been a lot of suggestion that a few players have some how been able to see their opponent’s holecards, and use it to their advantage to comfortably win money.

Players became aware that something strange was taking place after they started analysing the hand histories of the players in question. These players would regularly open fold the worst hand or raise with nothing whenever they had a marginally better hand than their opponent’s. Over the last few weeks there has been so much evidence to suggest that the software was at fault that it is becoming increasingly difficult to argue otherwise.

The most feasible explanation of how this has taken place is that an old employee of Absolute has managed to work his or her way around a security flaw in the software, which is now allowing them to see their opponent’s hole cards as they play. There are a handful of other possible explanations flying around at the moment, but this one seems to fit all of the evidence that has popped up over the last few weeks.

But nonetheless, it seems as if Absolute is now finding it difficult to claim that there have been no problems according to their latest statement to PocketFives.com:

“PocketFives just received a phone call from Absolute Poker confirming the suspicions of the online poker community over the past month. While we need to be vague in this post to respect their wishes, we can say that their systems were compromised, and that they are prepared to provide the details in a statement coming shortly.

–Adam”

So it is really looking as though things are starting to take shape around this whole issue, and I anticipate that it won’t be too long before the whole truth has been revealed.