See? Orthography is revealing after all!

I while back I commented on a press release from Absolute Poker about allegations of a security breach allowing a player to see all of his opponents' hole cards. See http://pokergrump.blogspot.com/2007/09/getting-things-right-or-not.html. Without even examining the evidence that serious online players had amassed, I concluded from the press release that all was not well. This was because, I opined, the horrible sloppiness of the press release assuring the world that nothing untoward was going on likely signified that the claimed investigation was just as slipshod.

You can, if you wish, read how my analysis was pilloried in a forum of Absolute Poker affiliates: http://www.pokeraffiliateworld.com/forums/general-poker-affiliate-discussion/11817-what-happened-absolute-thread.html

Well, it turns out that there was indeed foul play at Absolute, in spite of the site's previous reassurance that all was well. See http://tinyurl.com/2addoj and http://wizardofodds.com/software/absolutepoker.html for details of the analysis that would leave no serious doubt, even absent the company's admission. Additionally, it appears that we do have an admission of sorts from the site: http://wickedchopspoker.blogs.com/my_weblog/2007/10/absolute-poke-2.html

Of course, it's possible that, in reality, there is no connection on any level between the sloppiness of the press release that raised my suspicions and the fact that Absolute's "investigation" (if, in fact, there was one, as they asserted), oops!, somehow failed to find the cheating. But I'd like to think that my hunch was vindicated. A company that can't even bother to proofread its official statement to the world about how there is no problem is unlikely to have actually done a careful, thorough investigation in which one can place one's trust.

So there. Nyeah, nyeah, nyeah. (That is a sticking out of the virtual tongue at my previous naysayers.)