Wednesday 14 April 2010

Stoxtrader Found Guilty in Initial PokerTableRatings Hands Analysis

The now infamous Nick "Stoxtrader" Grudzien, formerly the Lead Poker Instructor at Stoxpoker (Cardrunners owned brand), was found guilty by NoahSD's analysis of PokerTable Ratings data. NoahSD is a known statistics expert and put together a thorough report and as yet we await a clear response from the Grudzien camp.

NoahSD concluded that Stoxtrader did in fact collude on the accounts 40putts and knockstiff with the accounts kinetica and littlezen. He, argues that anomalies in the game play statistics of how these accounts played against each other, and against their 49 most common opponents, could only indicate that these accounts were in fact colluding.
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This adds a whole new twist to the scandal as he had previously admitted to having multiple accounts and resigned his position as StoxPoker Coach. This embarrassment has led to Cardrunners Closing the StoxPoker Brand and merging it with their own to take attention away from the disaster and save the jobs of the many great instructors who remained on the Stox roster.

I guess it should be no surprise that in this game where millions of dollars can be won and lost at the click of a button the temptation to cheat is enormous. It is just a shame to discover that so many bad apples were in one basket (StoxPoker). Only time will tell if StoxTrader is an innocent victim of statistical anomalies and guilt by association with a bad crowd or yet another blight on the face of the poker community.

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