As you probably know by now there was a big cheating scandal at Absolute Poker last year. I still haven’t heard if the cheaters (who were actually owners of the site) were sent to prison. You can get the full story here from NY Times columnist Steven D. Levitt.

I too have had my problems with this site and their lax security and bad programming. In my case I have spent dozens of hours over the past year trying to resolve this problem. I want to explain this situation to you in hopes it may save you countless hours of lost money and headaches as it has cost me.

Scenario: One day I let my girlfriend play on my account with my money. Seems harmless enough until she lost my money. She then went and used her credit card to deposit more funds so she could continue playing. By doing this, my account has now been turned into hers. Her name is now the account holder, all financial information is now hers. Because of this Absolute Poker won’t let her or I withdraw money.  The reason Security gives is that it is against the rules to use someone else’s credit card on a players account. HELLO??? If it is against the rules, why did Absolute Poker not stop it in the first place? It only takes about five minutes to write a piece of code that rejects credit cards that have a different name than the one on the Absolute Poker account. I swear these people are real idiots.

It is clear to me that their software lacks security as in my case and in the case of last years cheating scandal. They refuse to give me my money and they refuse to apologize for causing me so much work and aggravation. In fact, they refuse to allow me to even speak with a supervisor (I believe all the phone people live in India and the support is outsourced so there is no one from Absolute that you can talk to).

With all the poker sites available to play at, I recommend to everyone, please avoid this site and the other site it owns, Ultimate Bet. Their software has many security breaches in it which, as Absolute Poker themselves claim in the above mentioned article allows others to hack in and steal from you.

If you have a horror story about Absolute Poker or Ultimate Bet, I would love to hear it. Feel free to post your comment below.