How a prank call is rewriting the Ultimate Bet Super-User scandal

When the DonkDown Radio show managed to secure Russ Hamilton’s cell phone number they came up with the idea of having a little fun with the alleged mastermind of the Super-User scandal on Ultimate Bet Poker; making a weekly prank call to Hamilton on their Cold Call Radio Show.

Little did they know that using the storyline of Travis Makar’s recent arrest in Utah for a road-rage incident in one of their calls would lead to an entirely new break in the Super-User scandal that has been unfolding for over two years, with almost every avenue currently available completely exhausted. Makar was one of the people named as being involved in the Super-User scandal, and after calling into the Cold Call Show the following week we had our first “insider” speak out on the scandal.

If you are interested in listening to the first Radio interview with Travis Makar you can listen to it here (FYI it’s over an hour long and begins somewhere around the 20^th minute of the show): Travis Makar calls DonkDown Radio

For a shorter, cliffs-notes, version of the interview you can read it here: Travis Makar talks about Super User scandal Part 1, Travis Makar talks about Super User scandal Part 2

Now we not only have Haley Hintze producing more of her own information -which she has been waiting to have verified-but we have also seen replies from UB Poker COO Paul Leggett, proving that the brass at UB Poker is taking this latest development very seriously! Realistically who would have ever thought that three years after the fact we would be finding out new details from the Super-User scandal!

Leggett addressed the recent revelations on the UB poker blog saying:

“Firstly, I want to make sure everyone knows that I never made an offer to pay-off Brainwashdodo and I never did pay or instruct any payment to be made to Brainwashdodo.  It is true that he tried to blackmail our company by threatening to release a bunch of confidential company information including financial records and player data.  However, after unsuccessfully trying to pursue him with the help of local law enforcement, I simply told him that I was unwilling to pay anything to him”

Unfortunately both DonkDown and Haey Hintze posted alleged E-Mails that show Leggett did make offers to Brainwashdodo.

Leggett went on to say: “There is no doubt that Brainwashdodo did try to extort me.  I did arrange to meet him because I did not want him to post our company’s data and I wanted him arrested for trying to blackmail the company.  I do remember considering paying him to not release a bunch of information but after a great deal of thought, I decided it was best not to take part in the extortion and we never paid him a dime.”

In addition to the Brainwashdodo controversy, Leggett also addressed the claim that UB Poker has not changed hands, and the original owners -and therefore Super-Users-are still involved with the company:

 ”I would like to make it clear that our company is truly different from Excapsa and the other companies involved in the operating of UltimateBet before 2007.  I have never met or spoken with Russ Hamilton or Travis Makar or any of these people.”