The long-awaited blog from Paul Leggett at UB has
finally dropped and we have some clarification on what has happened to the
missing hand histories that we all have wanted to see so badly. By all
admissions, even Paul's, this is not the resolution that we all were looking
for. The data missing is about as disappointing as it gets and I'm left
thinking, "Where do we go from here?" The only reasonable solution seems to me
to have a third party group come in and confirm the findings that the Excapsa
hardware/software/what have you did in fact fail in some way and that data is no
longer there or retrievable. I think this is logical and will hopefully give us
the final answer on this matter.
I would like to offer that possibility up to a third
party group; the opportunity to come in and be able to examine the drives to
determine their own findings in the matter. If there is a group that is
interested in doing this please contact UB, or myself, and this is something
that can now be arranged. My only caveat though is that it simply has to be a
group that is only interested in discovering the truth in this matter. I always
said that I didn't trust two kinds of people when I first started working on all
of this: 1) those people who desperately wanted to prove that UltimateBet had no
fault in any of this and were perfect, and 2) those people who vehemently wanted
to prove that UltimateBet was the devil and wanted to crucify them. Both of
those opinions are simply far too fraught with veiled interests here to have any
real or trustable conclusions. With that said, please step up if you are
interested in examining the UB files/drives, etc.
I think it's important, as unpopular as it might be, to
point out that the current regime at UB isn't the one responsible for all of
this. They aren't the individuals who cheated their customers, and they aren't
the individuals who reportedly used poor software/poor hardware/poor methodology
to store data and information. That's not to say that the new regime hasn't
made mistakes along the way, we know that they have, but the individuals that
you really want, and the issues that come up time and time again are from the
past group who owned and ran UltimateBet at that time. I wish that we could
just scoop those people up and prosecute them for all of this, but that's
impossible at this time, as we know.
We still want to make it as right as we can, and I still
would like to be a conduit to serve that purpose. The final step in that
process may just be having a new group come in and take a look at things, so
here's to that happening soon. Please throw your hat into the ring if you are
interested...
peace,
J
PS- I also wanted to clear up a few things that I am
getting information on from my side of the ball:
1. Uri Kozai, from all of the information that I have
been told, is actually one of the persons responsible for much of the mistakes
that were made with the data. I was told that his company supported the data
and that that company was responsible for the loss of it.
2. The earlier script which was written and pulled some
of the hand histories out based on when the "suspect" did not contribute to the
pot in any way is completely different from the current information about the
hand histories which have been lost entirely. That script that was used to pull
data for players that requested their hand histories against the cheating
accounts pulled every hand in which the suspect contributed to the pot. There
may have been gaps in these hands for two reasons; a) The suspect folded
preflop, b) The data for those hands was lost. As explained the financial
records for all hands played by the cheating accounts are intact, missing hole
card data has no repercussions on player's refunds. Missing hole card data has
no repercussions on player's net win/loss against the cheating
accounts.
3. Another point to hit on briefly is one that Paul
touched on in his initial blog. The length of time that it took to get to this
point was massively affected by the fact that UB has been trying to recover the
lost hand histories for quite some time. It seems that often there would be a
possibility of recovering them or the potential to do so, and then would not pan out. This kept pushing things back further.
