Just checked on the Trishelle's Saturday Showdown, or should I say Trishelle's Saturday Sitout. At least 90% sitting out, Trish is sitting as is the whole table she is playing on. Some of the accounts look funny as well: badgone1, badgone2, badgone4, badgone5, badgone6, badgone7, badgone8, badgone9, 2682355, 2654083, 2652642, 2616217, 2613365, 2610456, Maross7333, Maross733, kiki888, kiki8888, kiki888888.

At least 3 full tables sitting out.

Would like to hear the excuse on this one.

 

Originally Posted by TheSquirrel

8.40 pm. Currently 30 online with 22 seated. Traffic started to improve as the New Year started, unlike my hands.

30 online? sounds awesome!

Still waiting on reasoning.. I was considering going back to sure bet but will hold off until I hear something about these bots/fake accounts

Where's the DoJ when you need them?

are u serious? people starting up multiple accounts and calling themselves the same name plus one extra number??? these people must be the grand stupid of the stupid, seriously i can't accept this.......

i don't think the reasoning is correct, there are not enough dumb people around to set up these multiple accounts.....are there?, then again I doubt that the site itself is dumb enough to do it either......I just can't believe it has happened, how many actual players were there in this freeroll......4?

op said 90% sitting out, equals three tables, so out of 36 over 30 were sitting out and now you are saying that these 30 odd players were possibly only 2-4 players - is this a joke?

how can your systems allow this ma'ing to happen? especially when they are using the same friggin names - rofl

this just doesn't instill the confidence to join...

"The reason they are sitting out is because they signed up for the freeroll before we blocked there accounts"

This doesn't make sense plus you didn't block them until about 8 hrs ago. When I went to bed last night (8.5 hrs ago) there were 11 badgone and 3 bad accounts signed up for the freeroll.

How do we know there are not more multiple accounts? What if someone made accounts but was smart enough to use different names?

Why did it take you so long to post about this? You said you were going to check in on the thread more often? You have time to twitter but not take care of you poker site?

What happend to your surebetpoker.net wedsite?

I didnt know there was a new thread since you we finished our advertising venture with P5's. Sorry about the delay I will try to pay more attention to this thread as well.

Thanks Vic,
Jason Sallman
CEO
Sure Bet Poker

More of the same, multiple accounts and this time it helped badgone5 win some money (finished in 8th for $4.50). Still think it's not a big deal? If the site can't stop this then it can't stop players colliding and it destroys the integrity of the game. With Jason being a professional player this is a freaking joke.

Here some of them bad1, bad2, bad3, badgone1, badgone2,badgone3, badgone4, badgone5, badgone6, badgone7, badgone8, badgone9, badgone11.

These look funny to but not sure: csaba.10, csabi127, csabikas, csabo127, csadesz (came in 5th), poker13, poker25.

And no Trish again, hard to get a "special prize" when you can't knock her out.

what? u dont trust an unfinished site with lots of collusion on it? whats wrong with u guys..

Where is Jason?

Support surebet that does not respond to e-mail! = (

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