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Cake Tackles Software Bug

Friday, February 5th, 2010

The Cake network seem to be taking that software bug seriously, although don’t seem to have determined a cause yet (they’ve just upped the monitoring of hands more).

An excellent response from Lee Jones, their representative on 2p2 forums though;

Q: What if I think I was the victim of a wrongly pushed pot before?

A: If you have a hand history, send it to our support people. If you want to ask our support folks for your most recent 1000 hands or so, feel free. If you can find (and we confirm) a wrongly pushed pot, we’ll ship you $500 for each occurrence. If you were the true winner of the pot and it wasn’t pushed to you, we’ll send you double the size of the pot plus the $500.

Pretty good if you think you can remember it happening. Both Hold’em Manager and PokerTracker validate each hand imported though, so I guess there’s  a possibility they may have rejected it and you won’t find it in your database (although it would still be in the original HH). That’s only a guess though, I know they check pot size on each street but checking the appropriate winner might be too much of an overhead for them to bother…

Update: lol, i should have read just a few more posts further :-D They’ve found the problem;

During the hand in question, there was a player who had missed the blinds and been asked to post a dead blind in the cutoff. He didn’t, but somehow there was a perfectly timed lag between the client and the server that caused him to have a “Fold” button presented (though he may or may not have seen it). Probably unknowingly, he clicked a non-existent “Fold” button, which went through to the server. The server has code built in to protect it from extraneous messages such as this (including malicious intent from hacked clients). But it turned out that it didn’t have that protection from a dead blind-posting player if the message was something that shouldn’t have been coming in anyway (e.g. a “Fold” from somebody who shouldn’t be allowed to fold in the first place).

The result of all this was for the system to believe that it had a side-pot between the sitting-out player and the small blind (the guy with the kings). It evaluated that pot, awarded that pot to the small blind, and then had no more pots to award, so it ended the hand.

We’ve fixed the code and are testing it. There’s a pretty good chance we could have gone another four years before we saw this again, but obviously we’re not going to wait and find out. The $500 offer I mentioned above stands; we think we’ve got this one beaten.

As regards the people who were involved in the meteor-strike pot, we’re going to treat it like a bad beat jackpot. We’re going to ship $500 to the guy who had the ace of trump and should have won the pot in the first place, $250 to the OP in this thread for reporting it, and spread $250 around the other players who were dealt in, including the mystery player who wasn’t dealt in but managed to fold anyway. Were it not for him, we’d have never found and removed this bug.

StoxPoker Rumble

Friday, January 29th, 2010

I’m a few days behind on this, but there’s an interesting thread in 2p2 going on (amongst others) – One of the coaches Jason Ho has been accused of scamming his clients, plus even worse, has been accused of being a losing player! He’s now been kicked out of the Stox stables…

A lot of threads have been removed from 2p2, but you can still get them through google cache. Accusations include that Ho has filed for bankruptcy in the UK, has run off to asia, never won the $1m he claimed he had etc.

fills a nice gap now that Isildur1 isn’t playing much…

Edit: I forgot to say – the funniest part of that thread above is when Jason decides to prove his innocence through a prop bet. Total degen :-)

It gets funnier – see the man himself

Jason Ho



Forum

Re: Forum is main site now by yegor_kgb 13:14, Aug 03 2010
Forum is main site now by Meteoric 21:27, Jul 30 2010
Re: StoxEV by Simon Debanks 09:25, May 07 2010
Re: StoxEV by Meteoric 20:05, Apr 29 2010
Re: StoxEV by yegor_kgb 08:30, Apr 28 2010
StoxEV by Simon Debanks 21:53, Apr 27 2010
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