More than two hundred thousand dollars was stolen from Bet Fair.com and they are demanding that it be returned. A late night computer glitch allowed twenty online poker players to profit even when they were not supposed to.

Even though the online gaming site Bet Fair.com has yet to comment on the matter, according to The Telegraph newspaper, the London based site is going after twenty players who won more than two hundred thousand dollars by playing poker online. The article from The Telegraph states that Bet Fair.com has written letters to the players it feels has not been fair to the system. In the letter the twenty players are being accused of conspiring against the well known gambling site and they must repay every last penny they took or they will face legal action. Rumor has it that this computer glitch has to do with the poker situation of going all in. All in situations are when a player takes his entire stack of chips and wagers them all on the outcome of a single hand.

In this case ideas and theories are flying around poker message boards and chat sites.
“The winner got the standard first place prize money and the second place person got the second place prize money but so did the third, fourth, fifth and sixth placed players,” said one participant on the Two Plus Two.com message board in explaining what had happened. “Obviously chaos ensued with people testing it out again and moving up to the largest stakes possible. They were just all going all in every hand as they were guaranteed to profit.”

Undoubtedly furious at the thought of having made incorrect payments to twenty poker players, Bet Fair.com was on the case to rectify the problem immediately. They deliberately went after the twenty players that purposely went back and played the poker game raising the stakes as high as they could before going all in. This was of course after they had set the glitch right and stopped large amounts of money from being paid out. It only took Bet Fair.com a few hours to see the glitch happening to shutting it down completely. Enraged over the unfair practices its twenty members have shown, Bet Fair.com sent them all letters with this to say:

“You recently received payments from playing sit and go single table tournaments on Bet Fair Poker in circumstances that resulted in greater payouts than intended,” read an email sent to one of the twenty players suspected of collusion.

In the coming weeks we should see a resolve to this interesting online debacle.