SOURCE: MSNBC.com

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He can see the cards

"(He) can see the cards, and you can put my name on that," said Roy Cooke, who was head of security at the pioneering poker site Planetpoker.com for six years.

"When people are doing things out of character and consistently doing it right, there's a reason for it," he said.

"When they're always playing the hand that has value in a situation and then folding a great hand when it has value, they can see the cards."

Michael Shackleford, a former actuary with the Social Security Administration who now focuses on gambling at his Web site, wizardofodds.com, said it was highly unlikely that Potripper's streak was simply attributable to good luck.

"It would be easier to buy a 6/49 lottery ticket in six different states, and hit the jackpot all six times," he said.

If the experts found the evidence overwhelming, Absolute Poker did not.

In its first statement on the allegations, the company said, "The result of our investigation is that we found no evidence that any of Absolute Poker's redundant and varying levels of game client security were compromised.

In other words, we have determined with reasonable certainty that it is impossible for any player or employee to see hole cards as was alleged.

There is no part of the technology that allows for a "superuser" account, and there is no way for any person to influence the game software to their advantage."

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