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Scandal Arises from Ultimate Bet

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poker hackerEvery poker player out there has heard of the online poker site Ultimate Bet.  The site was surrounded by scandal, and eventually was done in after Black Friday.  While the bulk of the attention went towards Full Tilt Poker and PokerStars, Ultimate Bet wasn’t far behind in terms of a scandal.  While Full Tilt and Stars owed their players quite a bit of money, Ultimate Bet owed money as well, but at this point players have essentially given up on any chances of getting that money back.  Once Black Friday had come and gone, players on UB had hoped that this was the end of the bad news.  Unfortunately it hasn’t come to an end just yet, as their was recently a new scandal that has come out of the wood works about the site.

It seems that someone went on to the large poker forum Two Plus Two, and released a large amount of personal data that related to different players’ accounts on Ultimate Bet.  The data was deleted with the post around 8 minutes after all was said and done, but players who clicked the link could get all of the information and store it to their computer within that time frame.  The list of things included that were given as far as personal information were things such as their Ultimate Bet screen name, full name, email address, mailing address, phone number, account balance, IP address, deposit methods used on the site, birth date, account number on Ultimate Bet (not bank accounts or credit cards), VIP status, affiliate status, and blacklist status.

It’s obviously very fortunate that this information did not include any type of bank account or credit/debit card number, and also that there were no social security numbers listed.  If this information was given it could cause some serious issues, and you can bet that the scandal would be quite a bit worse than it is right now.

Ultimate Bet has faltered quite a bit, and is actually pretty fortunate that the scandal around Full Tilt Poker has overshadowed their site.  The total list of accounts and information that were released topped 3.5 million, and over 2 million of those accounts came from the United States.

New Online Poker Cheating Scandal Discovered

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It seems that poker scandals just seem to continue to come out of the wood works.  We had a few live poker cheating stories come out, and there have been many big online poker cheating scandals over past years.  This time it was a high stakes player who installed Trojan Horse software on multiple different players’ computers so that he could see their hole cards.

It was a German high stakes poker player named Maximillian Ashkar, who is based out of London currently.  He apparently did this to over 12 different players, and won at least $2 million by doing this tactic.  The story behind how this played out is a pretty interesting one though, as Ashkar used his friendships with high-stakes players to use their computers and install the virus.

While this went on for a while, two of the players who were involved decided to confront him about the situation.  This all happened at the European Poker Championships recently, and Ashkar finally confessed.  At this point, the two players called the police, but it took a turn for the worst when Ashkar said that he was coerced by the players, and that he never confessed to anything.

Ashkar’s computers and all of his equipment were seized by the police as they were under the suspicion of  fraud, but the two players who confronted him were actually charged in this situation with coercion and deprivation of liberty due to their response to findings.

This story is a very interesting one, as Ashkar was widely known as one of the nicer guys in the poker community.  He offered his friends places to stay, and many considered him more likely to be one of the people who could potentially be scammed as he was very trusting; rather than being the one doing any type of scamming.  The other two players who were involved in this situation were not known specifically, but it was rumored that one of the players was Ronnie Kaiser, who recently won the European Poker Tour’s Tallinn event.

More news will be released on this as it is reported, but one thing that is certain is that these poker scams seem to be caught faster each time that someone tries them.