Online Poker Site Responds

Absolute Poker is ready to put last year’s poker cheating scandal in the past and move onward in the online casinos and poker gambling industry. Poker players all over the world were shocked when Absolute Poker and the Kahnawake Gaming Commission announced the extent of the cheating scandal by an Absolute Poker employee. An AP employee used a software upgrade at the online casinos poker site as a way to manipulate the software and give the player an unfair advantage over other online gamers – specifically, the cheater was able to see other players’ hole cards. Absolute Poker has spent several months under the investigation of Gaming Associates, an independent auditing company hired by the KGC. Now that the investigation is officially closed, and the KGC has ruled on the penalties that the online casinos poker site must pay for the indiscretion, AP is ready to pay the penalties, comply with KGC rulings on the cheating scandal and use 2008 as a positive way to rebound, recover, and focus on continuing to strengthen the company. Absolute Poker is now in the position where all online casino poker players can read the general details about the cheating scandal, so the company is working to rebuild the previous stellar credibility that it enjoyed before the cheating scandal. As a way to damage control the situation, an AP statement accepted all that the KGC has concluded as a part of the investigation. The online casinos company’s statement: "After reviewing the published report, we recognize the completeness and accuracy of the KGC conclusions, and we accept without reservation the KGC’s findings and sanctions. Most importantly, we are pleased, after these many months, that Absolute Poker can finally put behind it a most distressing and regrettable experience for the Company, its employees, and its customers." Absolute Poker is in a difficult position in that it has to publically acknowledge what one or several of its employees did to AP online casinos poker players. The company is looking toward the future, and the statement concluded, "We acknowledge that the Company did not act with sufficient speed to uncover the fraud; however, once we were convinced of the veracity of the allegations, we moved quickly to inform the KGC and to reimburse affected players. While AP is paying a severe penalty for the fraud perpetrated upon the Company and its customers, we are gratified that we can now close the book on this sordid affair.” Source:http://www.gamblecraft.com/

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