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Online Poker Scandals
JJProdigy. Zeejustin. The Absolute Poker superuser scandal. The Ultimatebet scandal. TheV0id. Sorel Mizzi. Chris Vaughn. If there was an online poker scandal, then it will be covered in this section.
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Ray Bitar Pleads Guilty, Will Avoid Further Jail Time Due to Health Issues
According to the Wall Street Journal (link below), former Full Tilt Poker CEO Ray Bitar pled guilty on Monday to multiple charges including violating the UIGEA and conspiracy to commit bank and wire f...
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PPA Meets With DoJ To Discuss Status of Repayment of Full Tilt's US Players
Earlier this week, John A. Pappas of the PPA (Poker Players Alliance) met with officials from the US Department of Justice, Asset Forfeiture and Money Laundering Section, to discuss the status of the ...
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The Department of Justice Seized $331 Million From Full Tilt Poker?
Earlier today, the AGCC (Alderney Gambling Control Commission) announced that they were revoking three of Full Tilt Poker's licenses.
The AGCC also released a 26 page "determination notice" regardi...
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Open Letters to Rafe Furst
Earlier this week, the US Department of Justice amended their "Black Friday" civil complaint to add fresh new allegations against Full Tilt Poker and some of its owners.
One of the names that was ...
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Sorel "Imper1um" Mizzi Is Unbanned From Full Tilt Poker
In late 2007, Sorel "Imper1um" Mizzi was permanently banned from Full Tilt Poker.
Or so we thought.
It turns out that the ban wasn't so permanent, as Mizzi has returned to playing on Full Tilt...
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RawVegas.TV Attempts To Speak To Russ Hamilton
One of our favorite sites, RawVegas.TV, managed to corner Russ Hamilton as he walked out to his car at a Las Vegas area golf course.
I'm sure that you already know who Russ Hamilton is, but if you ...
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Ultimatebet Publishes Statement Regarding Doubleballer / PhilHellmuth Hand
Ultimatebet published a statement yesterday regarding the DOUBLEBALLER / PHILHELLMUTH situation.
In case you haven't been following along, "DOUBLEBALLER" was playing $200/$400 Limit Hold'em against...
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60 Minutes Story on Absolute Poker/Ultimatebet "Superuser" Scandals to Run This Sunday
The oft-delayed 60 Minutes piece about the Absolute Poker / Ultimatebet "superuser" scandals will finally run this Sunday on CBS.
The story, which is a collaboration between 60 Minutes and the Wash...
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Clonie Gowen Is Suing Full Tilt Poker
Clonie Gowen (aka Cycalona Gowen) has launched a lawsuit against Full Tilt Poker and the various people/companies associated with FTP. The suit, "Gowen vs Tiltware LLC, et al.", was filed yesterday in...
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Natalie "TheV0id" Teltscher Withdraws Lawsuit Against Pokerstars, Will Pay Some of Their Legal Fees
Natalie "TheV0id" Teltscher withdrew her lawsuit against Pokerstars after "admitting that she hadn't played" on the account, according to a Pokerstars press release. She has also "agreed to contribute...
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Weekend Notes - Absolute, More FTP/Cardrunners, etc.
I'm tired tonight and don't really want to flesh out an entire article tonight on any of the topics that I wanted to talk about, so instead I am just going to run through and write a short piece on ea...
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60 Minutes to Do Major Story on Online Poker?
According to Nat Arem's blog, 60 Minutes (the television show) is in the process of preparing a story about online poker. More specifically, it sounds as though the focus of the story will be the Abso...
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Ultimatebet Makes Public Statement Regarding "NioNio" Allegations
Ultimatebet released a public statement today regarding the allegations that UB player "NioNio", and possibly others on the site, may have had some sort of an unfair advantage while playing on Ultimat...
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Josh "JJProdigy" Field Makes His First Public Appearance in Australia
Josh "JJProdigy" Field has emerged from the shadows and made his first public appearance at the "Aussie Millions" in Australia.
"JJProdigy" is notorious for being banned from all of the major poker...
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Tony G Signs with T6 Poker; Questions Arise
If you watch poker on TV, then you have surely heard of Tony "Tony G" Guoga. He does his absolute best to put his opponents on tilt, and has provided us with some memorable Youtube moments.
Anyways...
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Should Josh "JJProdigy" Field Be Banned from the PCA (Pokerstars Caribbean Adventure)?
This has turned into a bit of a hot topic over the past couple of days.
For the uninitiated, Josh "JJProdigy" Field was banned from almost all of the major sites in early 2006 after being found gui...
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Chris "BluffMagCV" Vaughn Out at Bluff Magazine
Bluff Magazine issued a statement today in which they announced that they would be terminating the employment of Chris "BluffmagCV" Vaughn.
Vaughn placed himself in the center of a storm when it wa...
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Would You Ever Play at Absolute Poker Again?
I have spoken with a number of people over the past few days about this topic. All of the people that I talked to used to have money in their Absolute Poker accounts, but withdrew it all after the sca...
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The Absolute Poker Wrap-Up (For Now)
For the past few weeks, we've basically just been writing about the Absolute Poker situation and nothing else (especially on our other site, Poker King.)
The situation seems to have settled down so...
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This Has Been Pretty Much the Worst Year Ever for Online Poker
Let's look at all of the negative things that gone down in the world of online poker over the last year or so.
First off, the UIGEA (Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act) was snuck into the S...
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Would You Use a Superuser Account?
Here's a scenario for you to chew on:
You wake up one Sunday morning and log into your favorite online poker site and sign up for a couple of tournaments. At the same time, you open up one table of...
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Major Poker News Sites Need to Start Talking about the Absolute Poker Fiasco
The silence is deafening.
One of the biggest news stories EVER in online poker is going down as we speak, and many of the major poker news sites seem to be afraid to talk about it.
I'm not point...
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Black Monday: A Dark Day for Online Poker
In case you haven't heard, there have been two major developments this past week regarding the situations with Pokerstars and Absolute Poker.
First, let's start with Pokerstars. "TheV0id", the acco...
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The Difference Between Pokerstars and Absolute Poker
If you ever wonder why Pokerstars is the 800 pound gorilla in the online poker space and Absolute Poker is far below them, look at how the two companies responded to the two major "scandals" that may ...
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Have The Latest Online Poker Scandals Eroded Your Confidence When it Comes to Playing Online?
Two major "scandals" have erupted online in the past few weeks.
First we had the whole Absolute Poker situation. This involved rampant speculation that certain players had "superuser" status and co...
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Was Mattyv Coached to Victory by JJProdigy?
We apologize for the JJProdigy overload, but he's been in the news quite a bit as of late, and we just report on what people are talking about.
There is quite a bit of talk today about the MattyV v...
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Online Poker Rooms Need to Take Aggressive Steps Towards Eliminating Multi-Accounting and Account Takeovers
Even after the JJProdigy and Zeejustin fiascos that went down in early 2006, online poker rooms have a lot of work to do towards protecting the integrity of their games. There are a number of shady ac...
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Continued Fall-out From the Multiple Poker Accounts Revelations
With many in the US government wanting to push through an Internet gambling prohibition bill, it is awfully worrying to me that all of these revelations about people cheating using multiple accounts a...
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Zeejustin Latest to Get Accounts Closed
Hot off the heels of the JJProdigy situation, we get another well-known online player, Zeejustin, get busted for cheating. I have been told that Party Poker closed his accounts a few days ago, and agr...
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The JJProdigy Situation
For all of you who haven't heard about this, here is what happened:
An account named "ablackcar" ended up taking down the Party Poker 500k guaranteed tournament last week for 140k. That is fine, ex...
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