AP investigation completed

12/24/2007

The Kahnawake Gaming Commission has issued a brief update, advising that Gaming Associates has completed its investigation and has submitted a report on the Absolute Poker scandal that rocked the online poker world in September. The Commission, which licenses Absolute, is now reviewing the report and "....expects to make a decision in this matter within the next two weeks."

The online poker site found itself in hot water after the player community unearthed evidence of cheating in a tournament. After initially denying for a month or more that anything was amiss, Absolute management eventually admitted that following a software upgrade one of its employees had gained access to information on other players' hole cards that enabled him to cheat them out of hundreds of thousands of dollars. Absolute Poker subsequently refunded those players disadvantaged by the incident.

The cheating employee was never formally identified or criminally charged by the owner of Absolute - a past grand chief of the Kahnawake Mohawk First Nation which hosts and licenses Absolute Poker. Numerous 'unofficial' leaks from the firm to selected media appeared to accuse an ex-Nine.com junior manager called AJ Green, however who is believed to have gone to ground in his native Canada.

With pressure over the cheating mounting, the Kahnawake Gaming Commission stepped in and announced that it had commissioned the independent gaming fairness and audit company Gaming Associates to investigate and report.