After the “60 Minutes” special dedicated to cheating scandals that features the popular online poker rooms Absolute Poker and Ultimate Bet, the sites have been trying hard to regain their place in the online gaming market. They have been going to great lengths to assure their loyal players that any problems that may have occurred in the past have been resolved. They went so far as to form the Cereus Poker Network to work along with the Kahnawake Gaming Commission to fix the situation. But, alas, now it appears that brand new allegations have risen to the surface against Ultimate Bet.

This past weekend, a hand that was played online resulted in the player who lost the hand getting awarded the pot instead of the true winner. Scandal! As soon as the officials at the Ultimate Bet forum were made aware of the situation, the moderator deemed the incident a “software glitch” and promised that it would be looked into.

Reprints of the hand in question show that the losing player who ended up with the pot was poker legend and Ultimate Bet spokesman Phil Hellmuth. To complicate matters further, the hand was played in a very unusual way. Doubleballer, Hellmuth’s opponent in the game had the king of diamonds and the queen of hearts in his hand. And then the flop came out king-king-jack, rainbow. Doubleballer raised before the turn and the river and then Hellmuth went and called. He saw a two and a nine that left him without any flush possibilities. Doubleballer bet on his three kings at the showdown. The Hellmuth mucked after he called. But he ended up with the cash prize instead of Doubleballer. Glitches like these are coming up more and more on Ultimate Bet.

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