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Congressman’s Wife Charged, Convicted for Role in Online Gambling Crimes
Drawing: Jane Flavell Collins Patrice Tierney entered into a plea deal with the US Attorney’s Office in Boston wherein she admits to being “willfully blind” to the nature of her brother’s online...
View ArticleBellagio Bathroom Bandit Strikes Reported armed robbery at Festa al Lago
Scott Montgomery, 2008 November Niner … he has a bracelet now, but presumably wasn’t wearing it this weekend when he says he got accosted by a knife-wielding bandit inside a Bellagio bathroom. (While...
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Poker Raid in South Carolina: 1 Player, 1 Cop Shot Violent standoff and hefty...
A relatively routine raid of a low-stakes poker game in Greenville, South Carolina turned bloody yesterday night — as police tried to gain entry to a poker house. The game host, now known to be Aaron...
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Another Shootout in South Carolina: Player Killed
photo: WYFF4 – Greenville No charges have been filed, despite yellow tape identifying this site of a deadly poker game as a crime scene. This time it was player-on-player violence … leaving one man...
View ArticleArmed Robbery in Michigan Poker Room [Video] Microstakes charity violence at...
What looks to have been a rookie armed robbery of a min-stakes poker game in Michigan caught on video … just like EPT Berlin … you know, if PokerStars ran live events in the $30 to $40 buy-in range...
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Eskimo Bracelet Buy-It-Now, More Eastgate Swag for Sale, Phillips’ Quitter...
WSOP-eBay Gold is currently selling for $1,390 an ounce, just short of what Eskimo would need for his next WSOP buy-in. I’m back in action because I thought I was going to be up this morning spending...
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The Difference Between Online Casinos and Fully Legal Land-based Gambling Halls
A sign seen in the new Aviator Casino, in Delano, California, reminding me of a difference between casinos regulated in lands we know well and virtual establishments based out of places that may or may...
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Weekly Update from the PPA - Petitioning Obama, Big Debt super-committee...
The big news this week was, of course, the amending of the Department of Justice’s online poker civil suit claiming that Full Tilt Poker was engaged in a “Ponzi scheme” that defrauded its players....
View ArticleDOJ Says Return of Player Funds “May Be Possible” - Calls Full Tilt players...
If you are out real American dollars in the Full Tilt Poker collapse, the US government is apparently your friend. That’s the message of Preet Bharara and the Department of Justice, who put out a...
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Feel the Shame - It's the scummy poker world, not just Full Tilt, on trial
Jesse May OP-ED It didnt’t really bother me when Poker Spot folded, because that guy had history. And I laughed about the money Aces Poker stole, because anyone who trusted them couldn’t ever spot a...
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PPA Meets with DOJ re: Seized Player Funds
The big news this week is PPA’s meeting with the Department of Justice regarding player funds locked up on Full Tilt Poker, Absolute Poker, and Ultimate Bet. Needless to say, this is at the forefront...
View ArticlePinstripes & Polka Dots Tourney with @DukeofFremont - Museum Guild looks to...
The Duke of Fremont, that colorful, uniquely Vegassy character who likes to buy in to 1/2 games with no max and sit behind stacks of $100k in bills (which he carries around downtown in a violin case)...
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In Brief: Legal Biznass - Poker Law, Politics, Business, and Crime
We spend so much time reading about poker legal developments here at Pokerati that we sometimes forget to share the relevant news before the cycle turns to something else … and then I complain that our...
View Article(Another) Texas Poker Homicide - Houston family game turns to shootout; one...
A Houston-area man got killed this past weekend at a poker game — after a fight broke out at what appears to be a family home game, and hosts ejected a supposedly uninvited player, who then returned...
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Don’t Shoot! - Violence & Poker - Is it worth reporting?
Come in, sit down, and let me slide an analogy across the table. Imagine that two businessmen meet over a game of poker. During the course of that game, they hammer out a deal to create a brand new...
View ArticleMedia Named as Co-conspirator in Calvin Ayre Indictment - Are poker...
When Calvin Ayre got indicted this past week, some were wondering what took so long … because if the DOJ couldn’t nab the brashest of online gambling kingpins (Bodog did sports-betting for chrissakes!)...
View ArticleRay Bitar Arrested - Full Tilt kingpin turns self in, DOJ restates "ponzi...
Leave it to Full Tilt Poker to steal thunder from all the attention going to the One Drop million-dollar buy-in tourney … after all, it’s gotta sting the creators of the Onyx Cup to see such a...
View ArticleCantor Gaming Insists No Connection to Online Gambling Crimes - System...
Cantor Gaming officials on Monday said the company has been working closely with Nevada gaming regulators after the arrest of Mike Colbert, now a former vice president and director of risk management...
View ArticleDOJ, PPA Meet to Address Remission Timeline, Player Points - Full Tilt...
The Poker Players Alliance’s legal team met with the DOJ earlier today in Washington DC for a status update on player repayments, and perhaps do a little lobbying on behalf of Full Tilt player points...
View ArticleDOJ Offers Glimpse of Payback Timeline for FTP Hostages - @TheJusticeDept...
When it comes to federal relief efforts, the fate of America’s online poker money supply surely doesn’t rise to the level of import seen with Superstorm Sandy … but we are all victims (well you are,...
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