Full page ads in U.S capital call for regulation of online gaming
The Poker Players Alliance, a grassroots organisation with more than a million members, has placed full page advertisements in several Washington DC newspapers calling for federal regulation of online poker.
The campaign follows recent exposés in the Washington Post newspaper and CBS’s “60 Minutes” TV news show on cheating scandals at Ultimate Bet and Absolute Poker.
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Cheat named, poker room fined $1.5m for three-year cheating scam
Online poker company Ultimate Bet has been fined $1.5m (£830,000) and threatened with the loss of its gaming licence after it was confirmed that former World Series of Poker champion Russell Hamilton was the “superuser” behind a three-year cheating scam.
A statement from the Kahnawá:ke Gaming Commission, the body which regulates and controls gaming [...]