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Revelations that Team Cardrunners member Brian Hastings may have violated an online poker room's rules could result in the reimbursement of $4 million to Web poker phenom Isildur1 according to a report at Crunch Poker.
The record breaking $4 million losing session Isildur1 booked against Team Cardrunners member Brian Hastings has caused quite a rumpus amongst poker circles. Moreover, the revelations made by Hastings in his blog may well have brought the triumph into disrepute.
In his blog, Hastings admitted to sharing extensive hand histories with other Team Cardrunners members (including Brian Townsend and Cole South) in order to decipher Isildur1's betting patterns and gain an advantage. One savvy twoplustwo member, ‘HogMajor' suggests this violated Full Tilt Poker's terms and conditions.
Full Tilt Poker's rule states the following:
‘2. Shared hand history databases and "data mining" software, including subscription services and the exchange of personal databases:
The use of shared hand histories provides detailed information on opponents a player has little or no personal experience playing against, and is deemed to be an unfair advantage. Violating this policy is subject to the maximum penalties for prohibited software use.
Players are not permitted to use the hand histories for hands that they have not personally participated in. Software designed to collect hand history information from games that the player did not participate in is prohibited. Some specific examples include:
•community shared hand histories •exchanging hand histories with a friend'
Isildur1 is quite possibly the most winningest online poker player of the year. This fall he was considered the most profitable online poker player on the Full Tilt Poker website, making a cool $5.5 million dollars in profit over the first 10 1/2 months of the year.
Ace King, Gambling911.com
