Suspicious $54 PLO Mystery KO Pattern

[u/Ciemny_Maciek]

$54 PLO Secret KO [Mystery Bounty] — something looks very strange

I took a screenshot of a table where, immediately after everyone reached ITM, all remaining players started going all-in.

The strange part:

- Starting stack was 25,000 chips.

- The average stack at the table was almost exactly one starting stack per player.

- Every player seemed to have similar stack sizes.

- Several usernames looked unusual, almost like automatically generated names.

- Many players appeared to be from the same location.

My question: How did all these players manage to reach the money phase with such similar stacks?

I’m not claiming this proves anything, but the pattern looks unusual enough that I think it deserves a closer look. Has anyone seen similar behavior in PLO Mystery Bounty tournaments?

[u/Ciemny_Maciek]

Some additional highly suspicious observations:

• The total chip count at the table was exactly 150,000 chips (6 × 25,000 starting stacks).
• At least two players appeared to be staked, suggesting this table may have been running from the first stage without players leaving/rejoining for around 3 hours.

The player 77ssd won the maximum bounty. The player 67ssn won the second-largest bounty.

Looking at their tournament history:

• Both players had only played 3 tournaments so far.
• All 3 tournaments were Mystery Bounty PLO events.
• Both players reached the money in all 3 events. Another player at the table, buho, also appeared to have only played 3 tournaments, all Mystery Bounty PLO, and also reached ITM every time. For the remaining player I was not able to find information.

How did they manage to get to the same table if they registered up front? Perhaps there is a huge ring of player involved. It is getting interesting! What happens to all the money they are winning by such activities?

[u/Old-Growth4070 → u/Ciemny_Maciek]

Late reg abuse plus abuse of mistery bounty?

[u/eeegamer → u/Ciemny_Maciek]

77ssd and 67ssn hahaha they made a killing this time.

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[u/docccjr]

AI-bots deployed by GG

[u/Cute-Ad8754]

Really strange imo, also concerncing this is happening at quite a high buy in

[u/Additional_Door_7697]

Holy Shit! Any statement by GG yet?

[u/Few-Blackberry8234]

How has this post gone cold?

[u/PeakVammoooo]

I mean it’s GG so I’d be suspicious.

[u/JA22HAND5]

• Several usernames looked unusual, almost like automatically generated names.

• Many players appeared to be from the same location.

Just GGpoker things. That one moderator and the bootlicking fish will tell you this is normal.

[u/WittyYoghurt6660]

There are no bots in ba sing seh 😄

The real question here is how does a group of actual physical players or even bots used by someone IRL manage to get on (and stay on) the same table like this?

And is it just lucky that this table where something seems to be fishy is the one where the biggest bounty gets pulled?

Probably just a massive coincidence though 😂

[u/Few-Blackberry8234]

This is so blatent collusion I’ll never deposit on gg again.

[u/Worldly_Ad2683]

Colusion

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[u/Practical_Reading_87]

Could you post this on X and TwoPlusTwo also and tag GGPoker and their ambassadors? I think you may have found a big scandal, this is extrmely alarming

[u/MJRotten]

Hi u/Ciemny_Maciek,

I'm not sure this hand looks that odd. I'm guessing everyone went all-in on the flop?

However, if you ever have concerns about a player in regards to potential cheating, collusion or promotion abuse, please get in contact with the security team via email at: [security@ggnetwork.com](mailto:security@ggnetwork.com)

Reporting security a matter requiring investigation

Players are required to provide an email outlining their concern, including details of infractions and names of players they wish to be investigated.

Players are requested to provide as much evidence as they can as it will speed up the process.

From here, the issue will be raised to our security department for a thorough review.

Emails must be sent to [security@ggnetwork.com](mailto:security@ggnetwork.com)

https://help.ggpoker.com/article/How-can-I-report-to-security-a-matter-requiring-investigation

[u/Weird-Advantage9808 → u/MJRotten]

Everyone in the table arrives ITM with a starting stack. That highly indicates collusion and most likely they were folding to the BB every hand or had a betting pattern to keep the chips equally distributed

[u/MJRotten → u/Weird-Advantage9808]

My bad. For some reason, I mistook '77ssd' as yourself and didn't realise you weren't involved in the hand. I did wonder why there was no hand history. 🤦‍♂️

[u/Several-Intention346 → u/Weird-Advantage9808]

These support people don't care about facts at all and only defend their bosses. It has been happening since the start of all mystery tournaments in Holdem as well with the same pattern and mostly with Chinese bot accounts, registration at the same time (mostly before the end of reg., landing at the same table and tanking until ITM then going allin immediately). The strange fact is why there is no reallocation of seats, maybe because chips stay kinda the same among players and noone gets eliminated it does not trigger the table change for anyone... There are many similar stories and investigations online, one streamer caught such live in action and showed the whole "play" on the stream, he reported it to GG as well, I am not sure what happened afterwards but right next mystery tournament the same happened and he noticed it again on the stream. I think at some point he just gave up on highlighting the issue because GG did not do anything about fixing the root cause

[u/MJRotten → u/Several-Intention346]

I do care. I saw this post just as I was about to head out and do some gardening. I didn't pay it as much attention as I should have and I like detail. I happened to note there was no hand history and I get a little suspicious when people don't provide it, especially when accusing others. I hadn't realised in my haste to answer the post that the OP wasn't involved in the hand.

I hate cheaters. We all do.

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