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Gambling911.com reported this week that Team Cardrunners member Brian Hastings and others may have violated an online poker room's rules that contributed to the loss of $4 million from another well known online poker player, Isildur1. One Team Cardrunners poker player has allegedly admitted to violating the rules and it remains to be seen whether the room in question, Full Tilt Poker, will reimburse Isildur1.
From 4Flush.com:
Rumor has it that the CardRunners gang teamed up against ilsidur1 and together took him for $4.1 MILLION dollars. According to the poker community, Brian Townsend admitted publicly that hand histories were shared, studied, compared, however you want to put it, and then the community further assumes the team put together a strategy to take the high stakes online poker player down.
ESPN.com offered a slightly different take on the matter:
Hastings had played Isildur1 three times previously, so he, Townsend and Cole South conglomerated their hand histories, allowing them to study the mystery man's playing style.
The Full Tilt Poker website incorporates the following policy, that many in the online poker community insist was violated:
Not Permitted Under Any Circumstances:
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
Ace King, Gambling911.com
