Hello Anthony,
Thank you for contacting PokerStars.
We have seen this site before, and can say with certainty that the image there is a fake.
T# 14705493 was the $10 + $1 Deep Stacks tournament held on 12th November 2005. The top
four players in this event were:
"gamblinfla"
"MiketheKid2"
"twiceasright"
"witzy2004"
The player "Big Devin" did not take part in this tournament.
Next, you can see the observer "style12" in chat on the table. We have checked our
database of registered User IDs, and as of May 2009, the User ID "style12" does not
exist.
There are also two hands mentioned here. One is # 3044245011 and the other # 3044243120.
They are copied below so you can see the hands as they originally happened. As you can
see, the chip stacks are totally consistent from one hand to the next. Furthermore, "Big
Devin" did not take part.
Finally, it is clearly demonstrable that the image has been edited. Attached please find
a closeup of several of the cards on the screen.
If you look closely, you can see that the ace of clubs is one pixel too high. The
prankster that tried to run this hoax was not quite careful
enough with his editing and left this evidence behind.
I hope that this sets your mind at ease, but if you have further queries, please do not
hesitate to let us know.
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Let us know if you have further questions or concerns. Thanks for playing
at PokerStars.
Regards,
HostFederic O.
PokerStars Support Team.
Goes on to show hh of 2 mentioned hands but too long to post.
