In a freak incident on Cake Poker Network, it seems that a hand was played where the pot was awarded to the worse hand because of a software malfunction. It happened on the micro stakes games on Cake when players holding AQ and KK respectively got their money in the middle preflop.


According to the hand history posted on the 2+2 forum, the hand was played at the $0.02/$0.04 NL Hold'em tables on Cake and the pot was $5.72 after the two players got their money in. The board ran 4c 4h 8h 6h 9h meaning there were 4 hearts in the board and the AQ player held the ace of hearts; despite this, the pot was pushed to the player holding KK.

The thread on 2+2 had barely started when the Cake Poker Cardroom Manager - and one of the most respected men in online poker - Lee Jones (pictured) reacted and posted this message in the thread:

"Hi folks -
Unfortunately, at the moment, this appears to be real. What's bizarre is how it happened this one time out of the tens of millions of hands we've dealt. Needless to say, our software people have dropped everything else to track this down. I'll update you as soon as we understand what happened.
Best regards,
Lee Jones"

So, more info and a software update forthcoming... In a similar incident last year, UltimateBet software went crazy and pushed to pot to the wrong player (Phil Hellmuth, of all people).

2+2 thread here.