Poker Perambulation

I know I’ve discussed this already. But, this morning I read a similar horror story in a whole other area. It wasn’t the story as much as the considered responses.

Daniel Negreanu is an all-in type of personality. Whether it is friends or his next life style change, it is always full-speed-ahead. One of the recent ones was a rant about Ultimate Bet.

What got me started today was THIS. The story reminded me of the views on Ultimate Bet and how people arrive at their conclusions. But, there folks looked at the ‘problem’ with added perspective and expertise.

Read my lips. The recent UB problem was minor and stupid from both angles. Those who disclosed and hyped the exploit remind me of the Sierra Club calling for the end of the world or some cute, fuzzy creature. Both approaches are more self-aggrandizement to promote themselves over solid facts. They’re not wrong as much as they are a vested interest.

This isn’t to say or promote Ultimate Bet. It was owned by scumbags and as far I can tell it still is. Joe Norton (at the time called 100% purchaser) would have been selling Hiawatha’s cure from the back of a snake oil wagon in earlier times. He was a poorly educated iron worker that made local reservation politics into his money cow. I did articles about him when he supposedly purchased UB as did my friend PokerHack. I can’t point you too them over on PokerWorks but I remember our doing them.

BTW, Joe Norton was “The Grand Chief” of the Indian reserve in Quebec that now houses about all the servers we play poker on. It is a lucrative business and that’s evident when a iron worker turn local politician supposedly comes up with millions to purchase UB.

But ‘the exploit’ disclosed requires:

• parking yourself/computer within about 100 yard of the sucker

• having a true sucker that is operating an exposed wireless setup

• waiting until he decides to play there

• getting on the same table

Once you’ve done all this, what’s its worth. Is there a reasoned return on investment in the offing. If it is Durr or Antonious, maybe. For 99% of the poker playing populous, it is playground chump change. And then the benefit is marginal. You own one player at the table and know 2 cards more than the other 6 – who all might be running heaters from hell.

It is a hell of a piece of self-promotion that took place. Its return on investment is probably as bad as what I just outlined. If they’d just used all that thought process to come up with a grant proposal to send in about global warming, they’d have a much better risk:reward with a mega payday in the offing.

P.S. There are bot nets with compromised computers in the millions. I went over securing another bloggers computer not that long ago. If your machine is compromised, do you think the guy will:

1. Go to the effort of sitting hours at a poker table to take a few bucks, or

2. Clean out your bank account in a few minutes.

Nuff sed!

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