With the countless amounts of users that take advantage of online poker rooms and casinos to wager and compete against real live human beings over the Internet, the last thing anybody wants to hear about is cheating.  The faith and trust that players have in the online poker room security and the software that is responsible for maintaining this high level of safety is extraordinarily high and without this absolute trust, online poker rooms would quickly find themselves devoid of players willing to take the chance that their hand is not the hand that is being cheated.  The importance of keeping the online poker room safe and secure and free from cheating is critical, as players have always listed this as their number one concern when competing in these types of Internet based poker rooms.

Unfortunately, new developments have revealed that not only has cheating occurred, but it appears that it has occurred on the highest possible level.  After losing at a hand of poker in a tournament on AbsolutePoker.com, the second-place finisher sent an e-mail to the Absolute Poker website and got a file in return to his query.  While the user was not completely aware of how to utilize the file and it appeared to be gibberish, upon later inspection it revealed the myriad details of not only his hand but every hand that was played in the entire poker tournament, along with IP addresses and other information such as e-mail that is considered to be extraordinarily personal and eyes only.  This breach in security would be enough in most cases to blacklist any poker room, but the problem did not end there.

The information got passed around until several savvy poker players sat down and analyzed the document at length and discovered that not only were players apparently cheating, but one of the individuals caught appeared to be a user at the absolute poker website itself.  With information pointing at administration and staff of Absolute Poker, the online poker community has been in an uproar ever since.  With Absolute Poker claiming that no cheating occurred and that a lengthy investigation had already taken place, many online poker room and casino players are doubtful of the consensus reached by the Absolute Poker website staff.

Further details remain sketchy, but it would appear that some type of cheating has occurred on the highest possible level at the extremely popular AbsolutePoker.com website.  Until further details are revealed, many sites and players have blacklisted the online poker room and casino due to these serious allegations of cheating.