Possible cheater caught at Full Tilt Poker
In yet another online poker world scandal, the winner of one of the bigger monthly tournaments has been stripped of his championship title and winnings. And, it's rumored, a top online pro has been banned due to his association with the rescinded victory.
Approximately a month ago, "BluffMagCV," an alias allegedly used by a Bluff Magazine employee named Chris Vaughn, made a rare double win by taking down the Full Tilt Poker $1 Million Guaranteed tournament and, the next weekend, the PokerStars' Sunday $1 Million Guaranteed event.
The first victory, however, has engendered the most discussion.
After he received an e-mail from Full Tilt, European poker pro Soren Kongsgaard, who was the runner-up in the tournament in question, stated that he had been elevated to the first-place money because BluffMagCV had passed off the play of his account to another person.
The player who took over the BluffMagCV account is allegedly Sorel "Imper1um" Mizzi, who routinely terrorizes the online tournament world and has also enjoyed great success as a live tournament player in 2007 with approximately $500,000 in winnings.
Word on 2+2 and other online forums has it that both BluffMagCV and Mizzi have both been banned from further play at Full Tilt while security staff there conduct an investigation. There have also been some rumblings in the forums about the win at PokerStars, but no action has been taken with regard to that outcome.
Playing in these large-field, high-dollar tournaments is grueling. On most occasions, a tournament can start in the afternoon East Coast time and in the early evening in Europe. Because of the size of the field, it can stretch well into the wee hours of the next day. This means players focused on a healthy win have no alternative but to remain chained to their computers for the better part of half a day.
To reduce the temptation for players to resort to tag-teaming in order to last into the late goings, online rooms could take the route of splitting these types of tournaments into two-day events. Nowhere in the live poker world are players subjected to playing in such an important tournament without the benefit of rest at some point.
Most of the time, events as important as these are scheduled as two-day tournaments at the minimum. Not only players but also the online rooms themselves would benefit from switching to such an arrangement.
That said, however, poker players are learning the hard way that the online poker rooms are now being extremely vigilant in enforcing the one-user, one-account principle. As "BluffMagCV" and Mizzi are now allegedly aware, trying to put one over on the online poker rooms has just become a lot harder.
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mike pendlebery
2012-02-01Remember guys "A fool and his money are soon parted"
Anyone who thinks that these sites were built on ethics should read Mark Twain, Let's be thankful for the fools in life, without them the rest of us could not succeed"
atimont
ledzilla
2011-10-02"Possible cheater caught at Full Tilt Poker".... ooooh yes and their names are lederer, feguson. All the while people were bleating on about FT being rigged, possible cheaters with software programs to read the cards bla bla bla.. ooooh nooo it was much more mallicious than that.. all the time they were covering up their debts and pulled off the biggest poker heist in the world that makes the oceans series look like a raid on the pick n mix sweet section. A bigger demon was on the horizon and everyones money was pinched in all one go....hahah.
T1000
2011-09-23TO BAD
Howard Lederer
2011-07-26Hey doomswitchdan... i had my greasy finger on that button and i milked you harder than a freaking cow. Now Ive got a whole lot more with FT circling down the pan. giving a poker site to a failed poker player is like giving a sweet shop to a fat greedy kid... yeeehaaaa!!!
DOOMSWITCHDAN
2011-07-26BEWARE of the dreaded doom switch. Make a request for a payout and you go on the doomswitch register. You can upgrade to the BOOM SWITCH if you make a deposit where you will double your money but lederer and his cronies has their greasy fingers on that switch and can flick it anytime you get cocky!
JUNO
2011-07-09WOW.ALL THIS MONEY I LOST!!!
ALMOST 3000 DOLLARS
THINKING OH I MUST BE RUNNING BAD,THE PROS SAY YOU CAN RUN BAD FOR WEEKS EVEN MONTHS
POCKET KK ....ALL IN ...LOST 4 TIMES IN ONE NIGHT WHY ME
THEN AFTER FLUSH HANDS LOST BOATS TO BIGGER BOATS I FINALLY SAID ITS OVER THE BAD RUN WILL STOP
HEADS UP 5 10 GAME I GET THE POCKET ROCKETS AA I RAISE 50 DOLLARS HE RAISES 100... I RAISE 250 HE RAISES 500 ..OK WE BOTH HAVE AA .....LOL I PUSH ALL IN.....HE CALLS 1680.00 TOTAL YES... HE HAS KK HAHA THE BAD BEATS ARE OVER ITS TIME FOR ME TO SMACK HIM A WET WILLY.... HAHAHA THE RIVER SPIKES A GREAT K THANK YOU FULL TILT FOR ALL THE LIES AND CHEATING YOUR DOING YOU LIE TO THE GOVERNMENT AND CHEAT I HOPE YOUR CEO SPENDS TIME BEHIND BARS
Peter Pan
2011-07-07Hello
After reading this posts i think that 1, 2 or 3 bad experiences don´t say much. Any player had them. My own experience is made of bad beats at this and other softwares. Not just because of the badbeatings all the time, the neverending "rivers of bad luck", but because this companys are registered in countries where if you had any legal issue it won´t matter because you can´t reach them. If they bend any legal issue it happens just to maintain image markting. So with so much money and no law problems: 1-why stay with just the rakes? why not win more, a lot more? Can anyone answer me? Ultimatebet and absolute poker players have been caught using superuser accounts making a lot of money and making statistics the only real weapon against cheating... Full tilt went down, pokerstars, absolute executives arrested maybe for tax escape... just a bunch of honest people making an honest living.
Card Variation is the best indicator.
alex
2011-07-03lol,i see only stupid comments >They say clearly that they cought 1 pro cheating wth cooperation wth another1 .The cheters shoul pay wth prison in front of real players ,is like they steal from all of us.
George
2011-06-30They don't cheat on freerolls. I've cashed several times on freerolls and cheap tournies. I've also seen the same bad beats in live games.
mark
2011-06-03why wont they cash everyone out pokerstars did they up to no good
also i got scammed by bluefire they reactivated and charged my creditcard over 8 months after my service that i paid for ended they got 3monhts before i caught it becareful lot of gutless crooks out there
radar2016
2011-05-29on cash table $5/$10 b4 flop i call raise of $60 as have jj flop hits j 10 3 all not suited so i have a set of jacks, i check guy bets $80 so i obviously all in he calls with k 10?????(clubs)
so he needs runners clubs or ace 2 kings
yep on full scam 2 clubs,not impossible however on odd calls/hits on full scam poker are totally screaming a scam.
Its clear that the site has bots/fake site computer generated players of franky site employees on its tables.
the site tryed to scam a goverment and got caught so would it be a surprise they scam on tables???i think not,
Why are sites fighting regulation so hard if they have nothing to hide???????????????????
we cant see dealler or players so its obviously open to a scam
full tilt poker cheats
2011-05-10it's incredible...there's a secure ways to play poker without risk and with the possibility to play seriously...
j
2011-04-27Nothing about this shit being rigged, but that kid who said he caught a pair of aces with seven high and the other who caught aces with 5 high and you were wondering why you chopped? Probably cuz all the other cards were higher or the board paired dummy
Behegoroth
2011-04-20I just started playing 1 year ago on fulltilt after watching pros on tv for a while.. I still havent played for real money (chicken).lol.. I wanted to see if I could play at the highest stakes 1st.. so I hovered around 7,000,000 to 10,000,000 playing 3000/6000, I was somewhere around 7 Mil when I decided to play 1 10,000,000 table and 1 25,000/50,000 ..within a half an hour I was already up just over 12,000,000... I now at these stakes almost every single pot is potentially 1,000,000 .. I think my biggest pot was just over 3 Mil..n guess what,. I lost every single chip that night. I have witnessed some crazy outrages River cards, runner runner cards, just about every single type of ridiculous suck out you could think of.. and I agree the way they deal sux cuz they don't kill cards.. but what I learned in my short time of playing the game is that its not the bad hands or flops etc. .the game is about information not your cards.. you just have to know how to adjust to different levels and different types of players.. I don't think FTP is cheating...then again I don't know I'm too scared to play for real money yet so maybe its different but I doubt it.. I think You might just have to learn more about the game.. the better you get at the game the less you will wind up on the end of bad beats...
MisSexy66
2011-04-19w/e staying with 5/9 off before the flop when called all in...............with AA and they hit and also be playing other tables and calling with dumb cards and win........kinda fishy to me........
artsiefartsies
2011-04-19did play w/ a guy thurs. night w/ a team and busted them. I have his fb info. which is prob.false. This isn't the site's fault., though. HOW can they police everyone??? although i want my $30 bk. frm my acct. and wanna bust the liars face playin w/ me.
Angel
2011-04-16OK...i read all the comments and here is the real deal....my husband and I have played on Full Tilt for several years, we have deposited several thousands of dollars and we also have played freerolls, play chips, heads up, and other games other than no limit holdem..we have a combined poker experience of 40+ YRS..WE ARE NOT PROFESSIONALS...but we do play more live cash games and live tournment play in casinos, card rooms and indian reservations all over the USA.and make good money at it..YET....our experience has been a flippin roller coaster ride on Full Tilt as well as other poker sites. We finally cashed in a big tourney(weve cashed in lots of smaller ones) over a month ago for $55,000.00 and we have yet to recieve our money.. I have tried every way to withdrawal my funds and they give me excuse after excuse. To date 4/16/11 i now cant even log onto Full Tilt.com seems the Feds have seized the site..as well as others..I guess i can kiss my 55k away!
Leighigh
2011-04-16The true fault with on line poker is not cheatin, they have no need to. The fault is with with the way they deal the cards.
with on line poker any card that is not already used has the same odds of showing as any other card. with 9 playerys, 1 in 34 for the frist card out in the flop, 1in 33 next card and 1 in 32. then 1 in 31 and 1 in 30
In real life with 9 people half the deck is out of play once the game starts. The frist card is burnt, then a card is burnt just before the flop at the turn, and at the river. This is why online poker is so diffrent then poker at a live table. so you have to adjust for it. These poker site need to adjust there dealing
programs.
gary genovese
2011-04-16The sites care less who wins,they get their rake.You are all the worst whinners in the world,try water polo...losers
Jerry
2011-04-15I definatly do believe that FTP is rigged for players not to win in a FREEROLL Tournament or otherwise.I had hands with straights right off the bat,3 of a kind,two pairs and still come up loseing with the river card.Someone would get a full house,flush or 4 of a kind almost 95 % of the time.I believe that they are connected with FTP in some way to know exactly what you have in your hand.Its virtually impossible to win one of these FREEROLL tournaments and i believe its because a person doesnt make a deposit when opening an account.And i also have had winning hands where myself and another player had tied hands,even tho we both had entirely different high and low cards.I had pair of ACES with high card being a seven and other player had pair ACES with his high card being a five.Now how does that come up as a tied hand? In poker its the highest and best hand that wins.I asked this question with FTP and havnt got any replys as of yet.
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