Ashley Mitchell, the infamous Zynga Poker hacker, plead guilty last week to multiple charges under the Computer Misuse Act and the Proceeds of Crime Act for stealing online poker chips in large amounts. However, according to sources, further information has come forth from a late witness.

According to Mitchell’s accusers, he hacked into the Zynga Poker server as an administrator. By logging in with this specific mask, he was able to perform administrative tasks — such as move around large amounts of chips. Apparently, while being an administrator, Mitchell was able to steal more than 400 billion chips (possibly worth over $12 million) — or did he?

This new witness, which Mitchell’s defense claims has pertinent information, has forced the judge to adjourn the case until March 14th, so that the defense can get a statement from the witness. Unfortunately for Mitchell, he will still be facing some sort of jail time — regardless of the true worth of the poker chips. Also, this is not the first time Mitchell has been caught stealing online either.

In 2008, Mitchell broke into the computer systems of his former employer to award himself a rather large payment. For his past crime, Mitchell received a suspended sentence, however, the judge will not be so nice in this current case. Jail time is almost certain for stealing over 400 billion poker chips from the online powerhouse.

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As discussed on pokerlistings:

As you can see, the iPad is basically bigger, faster, better, stronger than the iPhone. Unfortunately for us poker playing fools, there are a couple of problems:

• No mobile connectivity means we need to be in a Wi-Fi area to get online.
• Since the iPad is built on the same mobile platform infrastructure as the iPhone, it looks like the device will have no support for flash or java browsing.
• Apple only allows installation of apps from the Apple App Store.

If we can’t install a native poker app, and we can’t play browser based poker, the only option left is to play poker through a remote computer connection, like we did with the iPhone.

The Advantage of the iPad will be its increased speed (a faster processor, and assumed doubled RAM), a larger screen (able to fit one full table at a readable resolution) and a quicker Wi-Fi connection (assuming you’re in a wireless zone running an “N” network).

In short, don’t expect to play any poker on the iPad without using a roundabout “hack” method. Since virtually all iPhone apps will work on the iPad, the exact same system used to play poker on the iPhone should transfer over.

From:

• Texas holdem
• Limit & no-limit
• Heads-up and
• Tournament poker games