Oddity at UltimateBet

UltimateBet and its sister site, Absolute Poker, have been having a tough time convincing people they are on the up-and-up.  Since the well-publicized Absolute Poker cheating scandal, a similar, if a bit less publicized “super user” scandal has cropped up at UB.  Add to those disasters less than stellar customer service and ever-changing bonus terms, and the AP/UB family needs to step up in a hurry to regain some sort of trust in the online poker community. 

Time to throw another log on the fire. 

On Tuesday, May 6, UB player “dhc2lovr” won the bad beat jackpot when his quad tens lost to quad queens.  For his “misfortune,” he received $145,899.46. 

But wait, there’s more. 

This was not his first jackpot win.  On Tuesday, March 25, “dhc2lovr” had his quad aces lose to a royal flush, a feat which earned him $171,498.31! 

Two bad beat jackpot wins by the same person on the same site within a few weeks?  The odds against that happening are astounding.   

Already, critics of UltimateBet and Absolute Poker (of which there are many, and rightfully so) are claiming the jackpot was rigged, that “dhc2lovr” must be an insider, similar to how the “super user” at Absolute was an insider.  It’s not enough, they say, that UB takes extra rake to fund the jackpot and then takes another $10,000 from the jackpot when it is hit as the site’s fee.   

The evidence against UB is sketchy, at best, as there really is no proof that anything untoward is going on.  After all, why would they make the cheating so obvious by having the same player win multiple jackpots?  Even the dumbest of cheats would hide it better than that.  At the same time, UB and AP have a history of improper goings-on, so most would not put yet another problem past them.

Regardless of whether or not the two jackpot hits were legit, we can all agree that this feat was remarkable.