'60 Minutes': The first sign of cheating Video
'60 Minutes': The first sign of cheating Video Transcript
>> Suspicions were first aroused in a high stakes game of Texas Hold 'Em against what Podd Watellas [assumed spelling] thought was an incompetent and lucky amateur using the screen name Gray Cat.
>> This Gray Cat person was new and at first he seemed like a live one. He seemed terrible. He seemed to play crazy. It seemed like he was giving his money away. Except the only thing was he wasn't losing; he was playing in a style that was sure to lose but he was killing the game day after day.
>> While Watellas was losing 15,000 dollars to the apparent novice, other high stakes players began to notice improbable and endless winning streaks on Absolute Poker sister site, Ultimate Bet. Surge Ravage [assumed spelling] another lawyer turned Poker pro began using a software program called Poker Tracker to review thousands of old hands.
>> What I saw did not make any sense. This account was simply winning too much money for the type of game that he was playing, and he was doing it by never having the worst hand. When the other person was bluffing, he would always go all in; when the other person had some kind of made hand, he would always fold.
>> It was like he knew what everybody's cards were.
>> Exactly.
>> The most likely explanation seemed to be that someone had gotten access to an administrative or security account, Absolute Poker and Ultimate Bet that would have allowed them to see all of the cards in the game as they were being played.
>> Somebody with access to a server, computer server that would give that information to them in real time.
>> Yes.
>> So either a really good hacker or somebody on the inside.
>> Exactly. [ Sound effects ]
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