PokerNews.com, a global leader and authority of both the online and offline poker industries, has been the latest to publicly speak out regarding Ultimate Bet’s unethical business practice. While Ultimate Bet has already been proven without a reasonable doubt to be willing to lie and cover up cheating that has occurred at their poker room, and at least some past high ranking employees have defrauded hundreds if not thousand of poker players out of millions of dollars, the latest story goes outside the world of online poker.
PokerNews had sponsored an attractive female member of their staff Tiffany Michelle to play in several WSOP events including the Main Event. They paid her entry and had a signed contract with her, however Tiffany decided without consultation with her backer PokerNews.com to accept sponsorship from online poker room Ultimate Bet.
“We believe that based on advice from her agent that the contract may have loopholes; she went and made a deal with an online gaming operator that completely contradicted the trust that we had put in her, both as an employee and as a sponsored player. As an organization we felt completely sabotaged by Tiffany, her agent and Ultimate Bet,” Explained PokerNews Ltd Vice President Justin Robert Huxley.
PokerNews is seeking legal council on the matter and has also publicly stated their decision to remove the Ultimate Bet brand from their website because of the defective software and breech of player trust. For those not familiar with the situation high ranking employees of Ultimate Bet exploited security features in the software to access players hole cards and cheat their own clients out of millions of cumulative dollars.
PokerNews is only the latest large poker business entity to disassociate themselves from Ultimate Bet, as well as their sister company Absolute Poker. Several other website such as our website Poker-Prop.net, RakeFreeze.com, 2+2, PokerPages and others did the responsible thing months ago by removing these two brands that have been caught in a circle of lies and have admitted breach of player trust as well as cheating and theft.
We encourage the poker community to fully boycott websites still sporting Ultimate Bet or Absolute Poker ads and turning to sites such as our, PokerNews.com or the others mentioned as your source for online poker info or PokerNews.
Note to poker webmasters: If your company has also removed Ultimate Bet and Absolute Poker, please use the comment box below to share this information with us and our website visitors, so we can all have access to more trustworthy sites such as your own.
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I am very sad to see this article but yet am quite relieved at the same time. About two years ago I was playing at a table with one person whom just wouldn’t lose. I had pocket Queens and he had pocket 9’s. To make this short I had made a boat and went all in which made the pot over $150 and the guy called my all in, needless to say he river’d another 9 to give him quads. I did however handle it the wrong way. At first I was upset and gave that guy a piece of my mind, during this time more players had arrived and a few of them weren’t happy with my complaints…here’s the kicker…the person whom had beaten me said “don’t worry, I work for the site” and after he said this everyone stopped dead in their tracks and asked if he was serious, he left the table immediately. I emailed UltimateBet and accused them of cheating and told them I was going to report them to the gaming commission, the very next day I was banned from Ultimate Bet.
Do you think I will be able to get my money back from this site? Is there any steps that I can take?
Thank you,
Jason
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