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Today at 19:00 GMT, our traditional free tournament with a $200 guaranteed prize pool takes place on 888poker - the Wednesday Cardmates Freeroll (UK Only).
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The interrogation is over, detectives! 🔎
Your theories took very different routes, but you all landed on the same answer:
👻 ETHAN "THE GHOST" STOLE THE $100.
How the case came together
Some of you cracked it instantly. Rocket_Pockets spotted the letters hidden in the sticky notes: G + H + O + S + T = 👻
Others followed the clues step by step:
🔎 The Timeline: the $100 vanished between 21:15 and 21:25.
🔎 The Wrong Place: the thief wasn't reading News or a poker article, so Felix and Harry were cleared.
♠️ No Poker: Jack was off the list.
🤫 The Silent Visitor: the thief was on Cardmates but didn't post, comment or message, which cleared Oliver and Riley.
🚨 The Alibi: Danny was inactive from 21:02 to 22:04, so he was offline during the theft.
📱 The Final Trace: the culprit used a mobile device during the theft window, while everyone else was on desktop. Ethan claimed he was offline, but the evidence said otherwise.
👻 BUT WHY DID THE GHOST DO IT?
Under interrogation, Ethan finally confessed. He didn't need the money. He wanted to prove he could take the prize, leave no trace and vanish without anyone noticing. For Ethan, it was all about pulling off the perfect Cardmates heist.
He almost did 👀 If it weren't for six very inconvenient clues.
🏆 THE DETECTIVES WHO CRACKED THE CASE: Endevour, Dorotii, Weldon, Lawv, DavidBrian, Cipherex, Ronojohno04 Congratulations, detectives! 🎉
And thanks to everyone who played along, especially those who changed their minds, questioned the evidence and kept digging until the end. That's how a proper investigation goes.
Until the next mystery, mates…
I am the guy betting in position, QQ pre-flop all in on the caller who raises initially. Based on their VPIP of over 70% I called a fish move out of position and was right, they had 5/6 offsuit flop hits and I am pretty much drawing dead (1 of 2 remaining Q's or J/J runner). I am kind of getting used to it now, even late in tournaments, but would love to know if anyone has any tips for 888Poker, it';s not really fun when the fish get the run of the river way more times than variance would suggest is possible.
Six days. Six clues. One thief.
The incident
Something strange happened on Cardmates. Our $100 community prize has disappeared. No broken doors. No obvious suspect. No one saw anything. But seven people were around when it happened - and every single one of them has a reason to look suspicious.
Your job is simple: find out who took the $100.
Line-up
Meet the suspects
🦊 Felix “The Fox”
Alibi: Reading poker news from 21:00 to 21:40.
Suspicious detail: Felix somehow knew about the $100 before it disappeared.
♠️ Jack “The Shark”
Alibi: Playing poker from 20:50 to 21:45.
Suspicious detail: He had just lost a tournament - and an extra $100 wouldn’t hurt.
🎩 Oliver “The Gentleman”
Alibi: Chatting with another community member from 21:10 to 21:25.
Suspicious detail: He knew exactly where the prize money was kept.
🐀 Danny “The Sneaky One”
Alibi: Claims he left Cardmates at 21:00 and returned at 22:00.
Suspicious detail: Nobody actually saw him leave.
👻 Ethan “The Ghost”
Alibi: Claims he was completely offline.
Suspicious detail: He seems to know a little too much about the investigation.
💎 Harry “The High Roller”
Alibi: Reading a poker article from 21:05 to 21:35.
Suspicious detail: He definitely had a reason to want the money.
🦝 Riley “The Raccoon”
Alibi: Browsing the Community from 21:00 to 21:30.
Suspicious detail: Riley was closest to where the money disappeared.
Rules of the game
🔎 How to solve the case
This won’t be a simple guess. Over the next 6 days, we’ll release six pieces of evidence - but they won’t all be in one place.
- Follow the hints we post in the Cardmates Telegram channel.
- Explore the site and find the hidden evidence.
- Use it to eliminate suspects. Keep track of everything.
Your mission
Find the thief.
Then come back to this post and leave a comment with your answer.
DETECTIVE’S REPORT - leave it in the comments Who do you think stole the $100? Which clues convinced you?
🏆 Rewards
6 winners - $15
1 winner - $10
If more than 7 people solve the case correctly, 7 winners will be selected at random.
Good luck, detective 🕵️ Someone on Cardmates is hiding something.
Hello,
My name is Ross.
I am your average low stakes grinder, who loves a good free roll or very low stakes.
I started taking poker serious at the beginning of this year, in which i have managed to grind to $1000 as of now.
Here is going to be one of my easy grind ups for you guys, this is for 888poker.
So i start by max late registering the tournament below. There is a fair few of these throughout the day on 888poker.
Because you late registered on the last 30 seconds, you will go in the tournament just before your aloud a add-on of chips, which i always do. Only 1 add-on is allowed its $0.04c for 15k chips and it will take you to ITM, sometimes you don’t even need to play hand to get to the next tournament.
Then you arrive in the Micro Rollers - 20/30 Seats GTD, and these usually only have small fields like 50/60 players and its really soft play. Once you win that you WIN your $1 ticket for the $1000 micro rollers mystery bounty, i have some nice wins from these tournaments they are very soft. Try it yourself see how easy it!
Any questions feel free to give me a shout.
Ross.
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I'd not be in this position to be honest as I wouldn't be giving free cards away on the flop as it is a missed opportunity for information in my opinion. Obviously it is all situationally relevant we don't know how the play has gone previously, as you say you believe they may be flush drawing but dependant on positioning etcetera that could be a misread they may have been set mining with 5's or 7's and hit them or they may just have been fishing lol. More data required for an informed answer ;)
I know cash games roll a bit different but still A/K gotta be worth a pre flop nudge to test the waters, if they fold and you win the blinds it's better than you folding to a fish feigning the flush/set and going from min EV to negative. This is the sage advice of someone who has not bet up his pocket Aces/Kings and AK combos only to see them undone by a random straight or two pair from rag rag offsuit in the BB. I know it can be hard if you are UTG as any raise here is signalling strength, but if you are still feeling the table out I'd rather be safe than tilting myself wondering if I made the right call or not.
Wait until the 11th hand to finally hit something even though it nearly blinded me out. Still get 4 callers to the river and 8 6 off wins, variance yeah, 10 hands of garbage I wouldn't play whilst people play and win pots with far worse hands calling all-ins etc. It is not a game of skill on 888Poker, who do I petition to get future cardmates freerolls exclusively on GGPoker, which actually seems to run true.
And yes of course there was no; bad beat - sorry, usual 3 hahas and a ship it.....
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Tell me it's variance, I just went to add a note to igo107 and noticed they'd shipped again so watched the hand play out, He had K 7 off against K 10 off and pair of 6's, it really had to work hard to give him the win and make it look fair, think board came A K 7 then a 10 then another A pairing the board and making the 10 the same community card for both K's while the pocket pair suffered my usual fate while set mining and got nothing. That's something else I don't understand, I set mine with pocket pairs, 2's-7's, I noticed quite a few of you guys shoved with them in the tournament, is that normal now. I've also seen a lot of people calling up bets with them when there are 3 overcards to the board and calling isn't free/cheap is that normal now too?
I also see a lot more split pots on 888Poker than I have ever seen before and often the community cards are the hand, is that because there are so many to the pot each time and with very sub standard (like two cards 7 and below often not connected or suited)?
It's not really variance though is it, it is the standard formula all my hands above show, donkey move = runner runner reward. They had `15% of their stack committed when I shoved so that arguments gone too. I just want them to come and explain their rationale or if there wasn't any and they just fancied a gamble and I was the victim of 888Pokers donk reward mechanism to say so. I mean if they genuinely felt that was the play to be making and that celebrating rather than apologising was the way to go, I'd love to know why. I knocked two people out with bad beats, they will both testify I apologised via the sorry then bad beat emoji.
I guess it's a generational thing, my generation has class the rest don't.
Yeah it's not a play I would make, unfortunate to lose there, can't do much more than note it down and hope the variance evens out in the future.
Initial raise 7k into a 10k pot I came over the top with 70k, they where far from committed, you don't raise your draws generally either, especially not when you have pretty much the lowest flush draw too. Can't believe the final table standard here is all-in on a flush draw. I genuinely feel like they have stolen money from me.
Definitely a bit of luck involved but they were chasing the flush draw. Not sure how much the initial raise was but they might have decided they are committed at that point
Thought I was going to be raving about the standard of player on here after tonights freeroll, then this happens in final 6 please explain to me what your thought process was behind this play and why you don't feel like you just stole money from me?
All the money went in on the flop that they missed. They raised into me with nothing I raised all in and they snap called like they knew they were going to win with 3 5. I mean with 3 5 in your hand, a dry board (would you bet your tournament life on a flush draw?) you realistically aren't even beating a bluff. as board likely to end up with higher low card than 5....
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Intrigued at to who 888betzup is, raised into AA overpair with nothing post flop, called my all-in then hit runner runner. I have not been bluffing so no way they claim thought a bluff. I have serious questions. The note I have on them is they are very loose and lucky. Last 6 I mean who makes that play at the final table all in with nothing against the guy who has shown down 50 times with winners. I started showing my folded hands so they could see I fold better than they raise with, joke.
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