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After initially banning 724 accounts, online poker site QQPK has expanded its list of suspected cheaters to 893. Czech poker player Vojtech Cervinka, a renowned bot hunter who posts as MTT Database Review on X formerly Twitter, has named 11,469 accounts as suspected bots and estimates that about 12,000 operate on the platform.
QQPK, the title sponsor of the Triton One Poker Series, published a comprehensive investigative report confirming collusion on the site. The operator also announced it would set aside $300,000 to compensate affected players. QQPK said it confiscated $64,627 from banned accounts and would contribute the rest.
The site said it found no evidence of random number generator manipulation, unauthorized backdoor access (superusing), or the ability to view unrevealed hole cards through its system.
Who qualifies for compensation
QQPK said compensation would go to eligible players in multitable tournaments (MTTs). In an Oct. 17 post on X, the site said: “Eligible QQPK MTT players will receive USD compensation automatically in their game accounts on October 20. The funds can be withdrawn. No application is needed.”
On Oct. 20, it added: “Playing an MTT with a violating account alone does not establish eligibility. The official plan requires all three: an MTT in the past three months; two or more violating accounts at your table in the same hand; and a net loss across the relevant tournaments. Suspended or deactivated accounts are excluded.”
QQPK also announced an Integrity Bounty for “external researchers who provided leads” and invited them to serve as “external risk advisors” to help strengthen security and “safeguard game integrity.”
Investigators flag statistically improbable all-in results
Cervinka responded on X:
“How much is the integrity bounty paying for each bot? Because I just posted a list of over 11 thousand bots. Slightly more than your 893.”
His analysis reviewed 24 million player-hands across 3.78 million hand histories. It followed an Oct. 9 investigation posted on the Two Plus Two poker forum that flagged 2,587 suspicious accounts.
That report found that over 193,757 all-ins, the flagged accounts finished 138,705 big blinds above their equity expectation, a deviation the investigators put at 14.6 standard deviations.
The original investigation said the flagged accounts shared similar playing patterns, including:
- Round-number 3-bet sizes
- Consistent limp-3-bet behavior
- Similar statistical profiles
QQPK said the extreme all-in results stemmed from collusion and card sharing, along with duplicated records in the outside datasets. Cervinka’s analysis points to automated play on a far larger scale.
Poker pro and CoinPoker ambassador Patrick Leonard praised Cervinka’s research and credited QQPK for responding.
“Regardless of anything else this is really really good. The industry is still waiting for some sites to post about one player whilst in less than a week a much smaller site posts this. Really good. Hold the sites you play on to these standards on bots/superusers.”
Founded in 2024, QQPK has three of Asia’s top players as ambassadors: Punnat Punsri of Thailand, Danny Tang of Hong Kong and Webster Lim of Malaysia. The operator is set to sponsor the upcoming Triton One series in Northern Cyprus, which starts Nov. 5.
