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Anonymous says
Wow! How did you find that random blog? This whole thing stinks.

Tuesday, October 16, 2025
EdmondDantes says
Awesome. This gets more absurd everyday.

Tuesday, October 16, 2025
Anonymous says
Internet detectives OF THE DECADE

Tuesday, October 16, 2025
Anonymous says
This is great stuff right here. Can someone show it to those eggs Justin West and Mike Paulle ?

Tuesday, October 16, 2025
Anonymous says
This is fantastic!!!

Tuesday, October 16, 2025
lakong says
Andathar, what do you make of the letter Absolute has released regarding having an 'independent' company audit their books. They also claim that Scott Tom no longer works for them. Hmmmm. It's certainly possible and perhaps likely that they have been victimized too. But the bigger issue might very well be that they are trying to cover it up when they know full well after their internal investigation that it happened.

-S

Wednesday, October 17, 2025
Anonymous says
The letter being released I dont know what to think. I have doubts regarding scott tom no longer working for them too. Like the other blogger mentioned maybe they were also victimized, I am not sure. Or, something else is rotten in Denmark.

Thursday, October 18, 2025
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 Guess why Absolute hasn't made a statement yet?
 By Adanthar on 10/16/2007 read Adanthar's complete blog  
When we last left off, we were talking about User #363:

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..."[S]tarting 2 minutes into the tournament, Potripper's table was being observed for over 2.5 hours by an account with the user ID #363 (meaning this was created during beta testing)[...]Does it surprise anyone to know that the IP address of the user of that account resolved to AP's own servers?"
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But wait, there's waaaaaaay more.

User #363 (hereafter "Hole Card Cam") was not the only player on that IP address in the Excel file. A second ID, with the email address of Scott@rivieraltd.com, briefly opened up another table, closed it quickly and was never seen again in those 2.5 hours the file covers. Since they are both on the same IP, we can make the very educated guess that scott@rivieraltd.com was actually Potripper (who never moved tables and whose IP therefore wasn't logged in the file) accidentally opening another table by mistake. [If you don't know what an IP address is, the short version is that they are two computers on the same network.]

So, find scott@rivieraltd.com, and/or find the IP address, and we have Potripper. At this point, I pulled some strings, and the IP was cross-referenced between other poker sites.

It came back as belonging to the home cable modem of a guy named Scott Tom.

In the last six months, 2+2's seen a rash of spam for Absolute, headed by two people - namely,this guy, "pokermachine", and his alter ego, The Watchdog (both from the same Costa Rican IP). He/they stopped posting after they were outed as 'in AP upper management'.

Pokermachine's 2+2 login name? "scotttom".

What exactly is Scott Tom's position? In this random blog entry, we find out that Scott Tom is one of the two CEO's and owners of Absolute Poker.

Hi, Scott. I hope you're reading this right now :)

(He almost certainly is, BTW, because rivieraltd.com and a number of other sites listed on 2+2 have been taken offline in the last 24 hours.)