Police investigate Swedish poker robot collaboration

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Police investigate Swedish poker robot collaboration

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Swedish operator Svenska Spel terminated 14 poker accounts suspected of making at least $280,000 using illegal software.

Svenska Spel published details of the bot collaboration incident that occurred in his poker room. A total of 14 poker accounts were locked and the incident was reported to the Swedish police.

The locked accounts had a total balance of $16,000 and a total profit of about $280,000 last year. If the cheating incident is confirmed, Svenska Spel intends to compensate the affected players in full.

After receiving a report from a player four months ago, Svenska Spel launched an investigation and found suspected poker robot activity. Bots are illegal computer programs that can play cards on their own.

The report to the police triggered a fraud investigation and an internal investigation by the company and the Swedish Gambling Commission.

Svenska Spel is one of the few authorised bookmakers in Sweden and the only operator with a Cyber Poker license. The company has been operating online poker since 2006, using GTECH G2 software, which is only available to Swedish players.

A spokesperson for Svenska Spel said at the forum that the games played by robots are NL50 to NL500, and most of the profits have been generated in the past six months. The Poker Room will not publish the accounts involved while the investigation is ongoing.

In a statement sent to Swedish media, the company acknowledged that it should have reported to the police earlier, and that it expected "difficulty answering detailed questions."

This is the first time the company has identified cheating incidents that require police involvement.

Among the biggest cheating scandals that have been made public is the discovery by PokerStars in 2010 that 49 Chinese players had collaborated on DON SNG. PokerStars compensated a total of $2.1 million to the 25,000 players affected by the cheating.

Many poker rooms do not make every effort to monitor their games, which not only keeps a lot of cheating undetected, but also leads to the existence of problems being concealed. Most cheats are exposed by poker players themselves, often in online communities such as 2+2 to confirm the existence of cheating.

There is very little that poker rooms and players can do. PokerStars was able to freeze funds from 49 accounts it captured, but had no way to pursue legal liability in China. For most poker room players, it is almost impossible to pursue criminal or even civil liability for cheaters.

The biggest cheating scandal was the Ultimate Bet/Absolute Poker affair. The poker room paid $22.1 million to the victims. According to the regulator, the Québec Gambling Commission, "it found clear and convincing evidence that Russel Hamilton was the main responsible and beneficiary of multiple cheating incidents between May 2004 and January 2008." ”

Russel, the 1994 WSOP Main Event Champion, used software to check his opponent's hole cards while playing. A show about Russel called it "the biggest scandal in the history of online poker."
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