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Winning Poker Network: $199,572 Reimbursed to Players

Author
Vargoso
Published
3/14/2020
Updated
3/19/2020

The fight against bots continues in online poker. Since last year, the biggest poker rooms started sharing the results of their strategies against cheaters: partypoker, Microgaming, among others, confirmed a frontal fight against bots, blocking accounts and seizing money. Winning Poker Network did the same thing, and now a new reimbursement has been announced.

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Winning Poker Network: $199,572 reimbursed to players

WPN blocked A total of 21 bot accounts from May to September 2019, seizing almost $200,000 that was reimbursed to players yesterday.

WPN reimburses up to a cap of $25,000 per offending player.

Almost all the money is related to eight accounts ($183,943), including two players with a suspiciously similar name (CURRRRR14 and CURRRR14, each with $25,000). Five bots were from Germany and nine from the USA.

NicknameCountryBanned Date Reimbursement 
CURRRR14
Canada
September 13, 2019
 $         25.000,00 
daumesdack
Germany
June 15, 2019
 $         25.000,00 
BOBOCOOLL
Germany
June 15, 2019
 $         25.000,00 
1Rake1
Germany
September 26, 2019
 $         25.000,00 
CURRRRR14
Hungary
September 13, 2019
 $         25.000,00 
snowd33r
Netherlands
September 6, 2019
 $         25.000,00 
CATSONCATNIP
Germany
September 26, 2019
 $         17.933,80 
Ship!tDisWaaaay
USA
June 10, 2019
 $         16.009,94 
Dustyrotten
USA
June 3, 2019
 $           4.523,07 
MELLONBALLS
Germany
June 6, 2019
 $           2.464,80 
race car_rac ecar
USA
May 21, 2019
 $           2.115,14 
conzan
Italy
July 22, 2019
 $           1.838,75 
highrise2020
USA
May 18, 2019
 $           1.154,01 
Del30
USA
May 18, 2019
 $           1.065,62 
SAZONIK
Belarus
August 22, 2019
 $              832,32 

The hand histories are still being processed, and the users affected with the full amount reimbursed are public information.

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According to the WPN Banned Accounts website, the last account was blocked on September 26, 2019, six months ago. A total of 13,910 players benefited from this process and the network has already contacted them to share more details.

Joey Ingram (recently awarded Journalist of the Year by Global Poker Awards 2019) questioned that the last account "was blocked in July 2019", but Philip Nagy (WPN CEO) replied that they were continually working and that accounts are continuously blocked, but no reimbursement was made due to data issues.

It's clear that bots are one of the main problems that the online poker industry faces in 2020. With tools like Pluribus being developed right now, online poker rooms need to devote enough effort and create anti-cheating teams to stop scams faster than ever.

With these movements, WPN proves to keep towards a safer place to play, and with our exclusive rakeback deal, it's an EV+ decision to start playing today:

  • VIP rakeback deal;
  • No commission for any number of cashouts per month (high rollers);
  • Free graphics layout;
  • Free data mining;
  • Professional customer service seven days a week.

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