Comments on: Cake Tackles Software Bug

By: Meteoric

Meteoric — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 09:20:24 +0000

Seems pretty unlikely – it stemmed from a bug where a joining player sees a fold button when they shouldn’t have, and I’ve never seen this happen.

True that these things can be exploited though – there’s a thread on 2p2 that’s been talking about an old SNG bug where if you lose with automatic replay on and there’s not enough money in your account, then you still get to play.

People were playing $5k sngs and the near empty BR player was chipdumping to the other player. There are graphs showing hundreds of thousands of dollars being taken…

By: John

John — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 18:07:21 +0000

What are the chances that someone could’ve exploited this bug before they found out about it? Say if you found out about this, you could possibly had some friends play in on the same game and you intentionally fold even if were not dealt in coz you missed the blinds on purpose. A number of you (and friends) are bound to get many wins wrongly.

By: Meteoric

Meteoric — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 09:15:10 +0000

That might be interesting – Lee Jones sounds like a responsible guy, the sort of person you want handling this kind of situation (at least the PR of it, but you’d hope the force behind getting things fixed). I’ll hunt the podcast down and see if he comes across live in the same way he does on the forum…

By: Rush Poker

Rush Poker — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 06:20:15 +0000

Lee Jones was on 2+2 podcast, discussed this issue. seems like it was a rare error.

By: Conan776

Conan776 — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 00:39:12 +0000

Oooh. Thanks for the update; I had stopped keeping up with the 2+2 thread. Interesting glitch; I’m glad they got to the bottom of it.

By: United113

United113 — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 14:39:30 +0000

Lol, it’s like a bad beat jackpot!!! a huge pot you win you’d be praying that it gets it wrong and ships it to the other player!