PokerStars has recently revealed a high stakes fraud and returned a total of $50,000 to players who got cheated. Many still complain about the room unwilling to publish the screen name/s of the cheater/s.
PokerStars has always been famous for working hard on stopping and preventing scams and they regularly bust multi-accounting players, collision and other forms of fraud. Victims tend to get reimbursed for their losses but the site keeps withholding the screen names of the cheaters and they also refuse to reveal the method to calculate reimbursement.
Recently, the room has revealed a major scam and distributed a total of $50,000 among several mid- and high stakes PLO players. Pros like Andreas ‘skjervoy’ Tobergsen, Joeri ‘L0ve2playU’ Van der Sman and Gavin ‘Gavz101’ Cochrane are among the reimbursed.
While players appreciate PokerStars’ efforts and they are happy to be refunded, they also demand to know the identity of the cheater/s. PokerFuse attempted to acquire additional information on the matter but the room replied as follows:
“We have obtained legal advice on this very issue and our lawyers advised that we cannot disclose User IDs in the context of fraud on PokerStars. If a law enforcement agency wishes to investigate such situations further, then naturally PokerStars will cooperate in accordance with the regulatory regime that we operate under.”
On similar grounds, PokerStars also refuses to reveal the exact game type and stakes, where the fraud underwent. Still, they cooperate with the official representatives of the players, share their general insights and work on developing an even more secure gaming environment. Moreover, the method used to calculate the refunds also remains undisclosed; the room asks players to trust them and the regulators.
Players still argue that it would significantly increase the effectiveness of fighting frauds if the room published all the relevant data. It is also problematic, they say, that victims start guessing whom they got cheated by. In this latest case, the main suspect of the community is Jared ‘Harrington10’ Bleznick but several other names have surfaced, including ‘socutiefs’ and ‘BoydEmpire’.
Next to those fighting to get the data released are players who expressed their relief over PokerStars making efforts to refund players regularly. Smaller rooms and networks tend to fail to do that, while chances of fraud and players cheating are no smaller there, either.
