On April 15, 2011, now universally recognized as the ‘Black Friday’ of online poker, the largest poker sites facing the US market were effectively shut down by the US Department of Justice (DoJ). The Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) seized the domain names of PokerStars.com, FullTiltPoker.com, Absolute Poker.com and UB.com.
If you’ve been following the online poker world for a few years now, you likely remember a major headline story that ended with professional poker player, Sorel “Imper1um” Mizzi, being banned from the online poker site Full Tilt. It was an unconscionable scandal four years ago, so why is Full Tilt suddenly changing their minds?
Who do you trust, a major Las Vegas casino operation, or a happy-go-lucky porn film maker who openly admits that he always gets his way? That question will be for the courts to decide as Wynn Las Vegas casino and ‘Girls Gone Wild’ producer Joe Francis duke it out.
In late January, a famously controversial reporter in Vietnam, Le Hoang Hung (50) died in his hospital bed, ten days after agonizing third-degree burns covered more than half of his body. His wife, Tran Thi Thuy Lieu (40), was devastated, blaming his job for the brutal attack turned murder. That is, until three weeks later when she confessed that she had actually lit him on fire herself.
With the fascinating rise of online gambling that began in the 1990’s, and continues to see exponential growth to this day, it’s little wonder that Hollywood would decide to make a film about it. It doesn’t take a genius to figure out that big name actors bring in big dollars at the box office either.
Anyone who has been gambling over the internet for any decent period of time is aware that there are two main types of online gambling sites. You have your legal, reputable establishments, which make up the majority of players’ preferred destinations, and then you have your illegal, underground operations, where there is no guarantee that your winnings will be paid, but you can rest assured your deposits will be accepted with vigor.
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It’s Valentine’s Day, and love is in the air, but it’s the love of money that prompts this writer to pen today’s blog. I’m talking specifically about money lost to an unknown online poker player by a regular face on the high-stakes virtual felt.
David 'Zanderfish' Saab, Robert 'remo_04' Alan Remeeus and Darren Francis Hughes are members of an internationally known group of gamblers known as the ‘Saab Squad’. While they are traditionally famed as elite blackjack players, poker players, casino hustlers and sports handicappers, a new light has shone down on their names in Australia this week.
In gambling, you win some and you lose some; you can't win them all. But for some of the world's most fearless gamblers, a bad day can cost them anywhere from a small fortune to a Japanese import empire. From the $14 million lost by Australian business Kerry Packer to the $127 million lost by Terrance Watanabe, it’s all here, read them and weep.
Sports betting is a highly volatile business. There is no such thing as a “sure thing”. That point is proven time and again as underdogs have come back from the worst of odds to defeat anticipated heroes. Whether by sheer desire, design or a twist of fate, sports bettors have lost millions of cumulative dollars over the last century to unbelievable upset victories.
An online dating fraud was uncovered recently, and oddly enough, it involves online poker, Facebook and a particularly handsome deceased soldier’s photograph. Apparently a man by the assumed name of Dylan Sorvino was meeting women on Facebook by using the strikingly good looking photo of the dead soldier in uniform, then playing online poker with them while getting to know them better over the internet.