UltimateBet Discloses More Superusers

UltimateBet, which in May admitted the existence of “superusers” at its poker tables, announced this week that it is uncovered several more account names that were guilty of cheating. 

Seventeen more screen names were revealed in a statement released by the company, to go along with the eighteen that were announced in May.  UltimateBet insists that all of these accounts belonged to the same people that were originally discovered to be involved in the dubious activities.  So, if we are to take them at their word, the cheating was not any more widespread than was previously thought, but rather the guilty parties used more accounts than previously thought. 

The company did admit that they have found that the cheating did go back much further than they thought, all the way back to January 2005. 

Below is the statement from UltimateBet. 

UltimateBet’s continuing investigation has confirmed that other usernames, in addition to those previously identified on this site, were associated with the cheating scandal.

The additional usernames include:  Crackcorn55, WhakMe, GrabBag123, gravitation, Bgroup, H_Curtis, Twenty 1, WacoManiac, Broke_In_L_A, ShaqTack, BlueBerry101, HolyMucker, 55WasHere, Xnomas, dannyboy55, Indy05, SlimPikins2.  The same perpetrators we had previously identified controlled all of these usernames; there are no new perpetrators involved, only new usernames.

We have also confirmed that the cheating dates back further then we initially believed.   We can now confirm that the cheating began in January 2005, long before Tokwiro Enterprises ENRG acquired UltimateBet from the previous ownership.

Tokwiro regrets that we did not discover this scheme during our due diligence when we purchased UltimateBet in October 2006, and that we did not identify the fraudulent activity until this recent investigation.   We remain committed to our players, and to resolving this problem completely.  We will start refunding players for any net losses in hands played with the usernames listed above once we complete our investigation. 

Tokwiro considers itself to have been a victim of this fraud and we are continuing to explore our legal options.  As part of this effort, we are compiling all of the information we have gathered in regard to the perpetrators and their activities, for possible use in any legal action.

We will continue to provide updates on our investigation, as we are still looking at a few accounts.  We would like to take this opportunity to thank the poker community for their invaluable contributions to this investigation and remind them that we remain committed to fully examining any claims of fraud that we receive.

If you have any questions or concerns regarding this investigation, please contact us at pokersecurity@ultimatebet.com