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Turns out the Cereus/Ultimate Bet/Absolute Ultimate Bet Poker scandal keeps getting more interesting (and worse) as time goes by. The latest information suggests there is a link between Ultimate Bet and racists, and that link is Bob Heick. Bob Heick, a former employee of Ultimate Bet, was married to the former Fraud Manager of Ultimate Bet, Carolyn Heick. Carolyn Heick was in charge when the internal cheating took place. The security technology tool in place at the time of the scandal should have easily uncovered the multiple accounts originating from a few specific locations/computers but was overlooked by Carolyn. There have been some rumors regarding her alleged involvement in the scandal. The evidence is mainly circumstantial but suggests she knew about the cheating and could have easily been involved. In addition to the questions surrounding her professional life, there are now some additional questions about her personal choices. Carolyn Heick was married to Bob Heick. Bob used to work for Ultimate Bet but is best known for his work as founder of the white supremacist group, American Front. American Front was a white-power skinhead organization started in the mid 1980s in San Francisco, California in the 1980’s. Bob left the group and moved to Portland with Carolyn around 1990 and the two lived there for several years. During his time there, it’s said that he tried to organize and was apparently one of the many who trekked to Idaho in support of Randy Weaver at Ruby Ridge. There are no reports as to whether Carolyn accompanied him but she certainly knew of her husband’s history and interests. Rumor has it the two are no longer together but it still brings her judgment into question yet again. And what does it say about the judgment of those hiring at UB??? According to some, UB has never had any African American Pros on their roster. If this is true, it could bring an entirely different scandal, not to mention lawsuit, to light.

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Cereus Poker Network security flaw

Pokertableratings.com demonstrates how easy it is to see opponents hole cards or even hijack users accounts. Apparently Cereus is not using SSL or a similar encryption algorithm. Members of the online community Twoplustwo.com are having a field day right now about UB Scandal 2.

SenatorKevin posts:
They were probably curious more than anything. I analyzed Full Tilt’s network traffic a few years ago for such a vulnerability and was pleased to see they had fully encrypted traffic which made me feel more comfortable playing there. I never looked at UB, cause I didn’t play there at the time.

phils08 posts
The problem is that the Cereus Poker network does not use SSL to encrypt their communications; they use a custom form of encryption which is XOR-based. This form of encryption is known to be extremely weak, and in fact their particular implementation makes it particularly simple to decrypt network data due to an easily discoverable key.

The requirement for this vulnerability to be exploited is network access. This means that if you are playing on an open wireless network, a cracked wireless network (something which is increasingly simple to do), or on a physical network which has been compromised – an attacker could dump the network traffic and exploit this vulnerability maliciously.

Surely the Cereus Network’s board is meeting right now on how to address this issue. Pokertableratings is again showings it’s value by instigating these matters. I will post as more information comes to light.

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In recent years the government has done everything in its powers to take away the freedoms and tax dollars of the American people. Poker railbirds talk about collusion at high stakes online poker tables all the time. They never cease to be convinced that there are cheaters in online poker, but mention government and corporation colluding to take tax dollars and you are labeled as a conspiracy theorist.

We are free to go to the casino and pay an extraordinary rake, but if we attempt to play online poker or play at home we are breaking the law? I went to Mountaineer race track in West Virginia and played some poker at their poker room that opened in last year or two. I paid about 20$ in gas to go there and back, plus food when I got there, paid tips to the dealer, and paid more than double what the online rake is. I looked at the table and it said West Virginia Lottery. I asked the dealer why that was there and she said like 40% of the rake goes to the state. OK, so the state gets half the money and uses it to help people in the state. That’s what we are supposed to believe but the problem is that I just don’t buy it. I pay taxes for real estate, school, income, sales, and a bunch of other crap, but I don’t see any improvements in the country I live in. Our school system is a joke, I still have to pay if I go to the hospital, and my country sends troops all over the world to grant other countries “FREEDOM”. So who is free? Me? I don’t really own my house, the bank does. If I had it paid off, I’d still have to pay $6k in taxes a year plus $10,000 in utilities to rip off utility monopolies. It is my belief that our taxes are not going to help the state, citizens, or cities that collect them (or at least 50% of the money). Not to mention I pay to send my son to private school instead of a public school.

I ask you to question these bailouts, budgets, taxes, school taxes, property taxes, and wage taxes. I ask you to question where this money is actually going and why. Why is it OK to fly to Las Vegas and get a $5,000 chip and place it on red and lose, but it’s not OK to play online poker in the privacy of our homes? Why is it OK to buy 1000 shares of ENE (ENRON), but not play online poker?

The shift in income is huge, so much that I saw Warren Buffet playing heads up poker with Uncle Sam for all the new tax money they are taking from us. They were playing 5 Mil/10mil at the Economy super high stakes tables at Full Tilt Poker!

Here are some pics from the heads up match:

Warren Bluffet VS Uncle Sam 5m 10m No limit holdem

Uncle Sam’s Sharkscope

JK

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A huge scandal on the 2+2 forums has surfaced recently, which involves respected members of the online community. 2+2 moderator, “Cornell Fiji”, whose real name is Steven Ware, has been accused of stealing $30,000 from a fellow veteran 2+2 poster named “Admo”. When Admo first spread the news on the forums, all of his topics were quickly deleted by Steven. This moderator abuse did not last long as word eventually spilled to other parts of the 2+2 forums, beyond Steve’s control. Neverwinpoker.com, another major online poker community, quickly picked up on this information and posted all the dirt on their front page, uncensored and unedited in response to the moderation of Admo’s original topics on 2+2.
The following is a private message from Steve admitting to moderator abuse:

The root of this drama started a few weeks ago around July 15, 2008, when Steven made a thread requesting to trade his cash for online poker money. Admo responded to this thread and a deal was eventually made between the two. After feeling a sense of trust and confidence, Admo decided to send first to Steve and initiate the trade. Admo transferred $30,000 from his Full Tilt Poker account to Steve’s FTP account, “TheMatadorKGB”. After this occurred, Steve was supposed to go to a local bank and deposit $30,000 into Admo’s bank account to finish the deal. Admo did not receive any money in his bank account and grew a little worried. When he tried to contact Steve, he received no reply from private message or text message for two days. Then after three days, Admo received a message from Steve: “well I’m sure you probably guessed what happened…” and it continued on to say that Steve had lost all $30K at the Bellagio in Bobby’s Room and would return to New Jersey to pay back Admo. Admo quickly demanded that Steve send back the funds on FTP, but Steve replied claimed he lost it all to a player named BoostedJ. It is later confirmed that this was a lie and Steve never lost any money to Boosted.
Admo reveals that Steve private messaged him with intentions to repay the lost funds with several options:
(i) Borrow from friends
(ii) Borrow from family
(iii) Sell everything he owns
(iv) Repay via advance from his upcoming book
(v) Repay in a month and a half when he can sell some stock
As of August 5, Admo claims to have not received a single cent from Steve, which prompted Admo to bring attention to this situation on 2+2. Admo has also threatened to file a lawsuit and involve the police in hopes of speeding up the repayment process. Admo has gone as far to create a website which will follow his adventures as he tries to collect his stolen money: stevenwareisathief Dot Com.
He also created a photo edited image poking fun of this scandal:

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