Absolute admits software was compromised

There has been a lot of discussion over the last few weeks about the suspicious plays of a handful of players at some of the high stakes cash games and tournaments at Absolute. As you may already be aware, there has been a lot of suggestion that a few players have some how been able to see their opponent’s holecards, and use it to their advantage to comfortably win money.

Players became aware that something strange was taking place after they started analysing the hand histories of the players in question. These players would regularly open fold the worst hand or raise with nothing whenever they had a marginally better hand than their opponent’s. Over the last few weeks there has been so much evidence to suggest that the software was at fault that it is becoming increasingly difficult to argue otherwise.

The most feasible explanation of how this has taken place is that an old employee of Absolute has managed to work his or her way around a security flaw in the software, which is now allowing them to see their opponent’s hole cards as they play. There are a handful of other possible explanations flying around at the moment, but this one seems to fit all of the evidence that has popped up over the last few weeks.

But nonetheless, it seems as if Absolute is now finding it difficult to claim that there have been no problems according to their latest statement to sanghoki

“PocketFives just received a phone call from Absolute Poker confirming the suspicions of the online poker community over the past month. While we need to be vague in this post to respect their wishes, we can say that their systems were compromised, and that they are prepared to provide the details in a statement coming shortly.

New Bodog software on the way

After the name change from Bodog to NewBodog, and then once again onto BodogLife, it looks like the poker room will be bringing out a new revamped version of their software to accompany their evolving identity. The actual software is still in the beta testing stage, and only a handful of people have experienced it, but it looks like it wont be too long before players will find themselves having to download the latest update and get used to the new version that is about to be released.

The main changes have been made in the table design, as the lobby appears to have remained almost exactly the same. It seems as though the designers have completely scrapped the old design, and created a totally new one rather than improving on the current look. The immediate difference is that players seem to be a little more spaced out than before, which should help with keeping up with the action at the table as it progresses.

I was slightly surprised to find that Bodog has not modelled the table design on an actual real-life layout, but then again this helps to give Bodog its own unique feel. Players are still represented by their own custom avatars, rather than actual players like at Party Poker.

Here are the changes as stated by the Bodog Company:

An updated table design to better convey game flow and components of each player;

Improved visibility of active state and remaining time;

Grouping calls to action and information into intuitive clusters;

Clarifying processes such as taking a seat & being dealt in.

This is not the final design, as there are still a few features that are going to be added over the next few weeks.