[Resolved and repaid]

THIS REPORT WAS RESOLVED BY RB OWNERSHIP IN THE FORM OF COMPENSATION TO COMMUNITY REPAYMENT!

After approximately 3 months playing on smites online poker website cashing in and out billions of gold and amassing quite a large amount of profit as a semi professional poker player; (probably somewhere in the region of 15-20b)

(Benjicleo - PocketFives) (SharkScope - Online and Live Poker Statistics)

I referred the website to my irl best friend who also plays poker professionally. Now as online poker has recently been banned in Australia this seemed like a good opportunity to play poker for something that was actually worth more than playchips on zynga or facebook. the games where soft, the cashout process was decent (although at times it did take a while) and the software was decent.

During a small session this morning i was booted offline mid hand and to my surprise had recieved an IP ban! i private messaged smite who proceeded to tell me that me and my irl friends account had been playing from the same IP address and been colluding, now not only is this impossible because you cannot log into two accounts at the same time, but when i had logged out of my account in the past to try and transfer gold from account to account it wont even allow me to LOG IN for 30-60 minutes due to using a different account from the same IP address let alone have them both logged in at the same time to use together.

I asked Smite what proof he had of this accused cheating as this was an absurd accusation to make about somebody who has been a poker player for years and plays 5+ times a week at the casino in sydney, tracking sessions and is a long term winning player that i would need to cheat to win runescape gold. The proof i was sent was a screenshot of me and my friend playing at the same table from DIFFERENT houses. Is this against the rules? ofcourse not! games rarely ran higher than $100 so when one did run i would call up my friend and tell him there was action at $200 or $400 tables and we would both play. I won pots from him, he won pots from me i made tight folds to him and he made tight folds to me.

I often used his account when the cashier had no stock to cash out (which was very often) and a good game was running and i was out of funds on my account, This also is not against rb's rules or TOS. Let me be clear when i say i have NEVER used both accounts at once nor have we ever even played in the same house let alone the same room together. rb poker is also inaccessible on mobile which rules out the possibility of colluding on mobile while at each others house.

long story short Smite banned my friends account while i was using it with MY 6b osrsgp on it and has blocked me and kicked me from the rb discord making it unable for me to get in contact with him, i have started taking legal action but am not sure how far it will go as rsgp has no theoretical real world value, I am making this post as a very frequent user of the website and as a warning to those who are thinking of gambling there.



EDIT: games have been rake free for months (rake is a percentage the casino takes from the pots because you play against other players and not the house, this is where their profit comes from) in the last week or so rake has been added to the games without warning as i presume Smite was running out of money and that is the real reason he has scammed me as one of the biggest winners on his site, because he is broke.

Screenshot - 5d69d0181bc1aa9a21f73bfea82a62d4 - Gyazo
Screenshot - 4cc04f145115a90c51e6f4f5277001ac - Gyazo
Screenshot - 31bd66960b74ad85eb4489c6f81112ea - Gyazo
Screenshot - 3ba9d97cc736ee13c2fc435dff0fdfb5 - Gyazo
Screenshot - d216c15808324967e777b17abdbe51c2 - Gyazo
Screenshot - 2d5cec13af9c74b831f71c890827f8dd - Gyazo

 

Some additional information for whichever staff member(s) handles this report.

As someone with a lot of experience using Poker Mavens (the software all RS poker sites use) hands are saved and can be viewed via the PM client, showing the hole cards. This would make it pretty easy to see if two or more users were colluding with each other. Depending on the settings enabled, you cannot sit with 2 IPs at the same table. You can also view the IP address of each player and see if someone is clearly using a VPN or not.

 

i am sure there will be spots where we soft play each other over the thousands of hands that we wouldve played together but soft play is not against the rules and not considered collusion. i have asked smite to provide me with evidence but as you can see above he has blocked me and i cannot contact him due to the ip ban on his website.

 

There was sufficient evidence of this user's involvement in colluding and RB repaid the seized balance to our community repayment, this matter is resolved