Online Poker Scandals (31 Articles)
GCG: $76 Million in Payments Were Sent Out on Friday
The GCG sent out approximately $76 million in payments this week to the former customers of Full Tilt Poker who still reside in the United States.
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Ray Bitar Pleads Guilty, Will Avoid Further Jail Time Due to Health Issues
Ray Bitar pled guilty to multiple charges on Monday and will avoid jail time thanks to a failing heart.
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PPA Meets With DoJ To Discuss Status of Repayment of Full Tilt's US Players
Earlier this week, the PPA met with the US Department of Justice to discuss the status of account balances for Full Tilt's US players.
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The Department of Justice Seized $331 Million From Full Tilt Poker?
Did the US Department of Justice seize over $300 million from Full Tilt Poker?
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Open Letters to Rafe Furst
Rafe Furst was berated and also supported on Twitter after posting his open letter to the poker community.
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Sorel "Imper1um" Mizzi Is Unbanned From Full Tilt Poker
Sorel Mizzi, aka Imper1um, has returned to playing on Full Tilt Poker as of last night after being banned in 2007.
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RawVegas.TV Attempts To Speak To Russ Hamilton
Russ Hamilton, thought by many to be the main perpetrator of the Ultimatebet superuser scandal, was recently confronted while walking out of a Las Vegas area golf course.
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Ultimatebet Publishes Statement Regarding Doubleballer / PhilHellmuth Hand
Ultimatebet has released another statement regarding the DoubleBaller / Phil Hellmuth hand situation, blaming the problem on an unforeseen software glitch.
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60 Minutes Story on Absolute Poker/Ultimatebet "Superuser" Scandals to Run This Sunday
The 60 Minutes story on the Absolute Poker and Ultimatebet "superuser" scandals, four months in the making, will finally air this Sunday.
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Clonie Gowen Is Suing Full Tilt Poker
Clonie Gowen, a member of Team Full Tilt, has filed suit against Full Tilt Poker and the various companies/people associated with FTP.
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Natalie "TheV0id" Teltscher Withdraws Lawsuit Against Pokerstars, Will Pay Some of Their Legal Fees
Natalie Teltscher, otherwise known as TheV0id, withdrew her 1.2 million dollar lawsuit against Pokerstars and agreed to pay some of their legal fees.
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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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