Superuser

1. An online poker account capable of seeing opponents' hole cards in real time, providing the ultimate ability to cheat.

History of the Superuser

No one would have expected that a major poker site would allow a superuser function to exist, but a series of events in 2007 and 2008 revealed that superusers not only existed, but were being employed on a regular basis by cheats at Absolute Poker and UB.com in a consistent effort to defraud the sites' players.

After the scandal was revealed through a series of serendipitous discoveries and an exhaustive investigative effort by members of the online poker community, the sites were compelled to pay millions in reparations to cheated players, and the story generated mainstream interest when 60 Minutes broadcast a segment on the scandal in December of 2008.

Some Links

Here are some links with information about the scandal:

• Absolute Poker Cheating Scandal
• Ultimate Bet and Russ Hamilton
• Absolute Poker Cheating Scandal Blown Wide Open
• Absolute Poker: Going, Going...
• "Geek" blamed for online poker cheating (Note: Lots of info in this story is not correct due to misinformation from AP/UB at the time)