I had to delay writing this because after the last round ended I was standing talking with Phil Ivey and Mike Matusow and Phil started asking about food. What’s around here? I was thinking of getting a slice of pizza...
Court releases decision in iMEGA vs Department of Justice
Judge Mary L. Cooper, of the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey, released her decision today regarding the lawsuit brought by gaming lobbying group Interactive Media Entertainment & Gaming Association (iMEGA) that aimed to prevent implementation of the UIGEA. The official ��...full article
Judge Mary L. Cooper, of the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey, released her decision today regarding the lawsuit brought by gaming lobbying group Interactive Media Entertainment & Gaming Association (iMEGA) that aimed to prevent implementation of the UIGEA.
The official response from iMEGA spun the decision as a major win, but others aren’t so sure. Excerpt from iMEGA statement:
“iMEGA is very pleased that the Court recognized our standing and the weaknesses in UIGEA” said Joe Brennan Jr., the chairman of iMEGA. “Judge Cooper found that banks, credit card companies and other payment system instruments are exempt from criminal sanctions under UIGEA, significantly undercutting UIGEA’s enforcement mechanism. Her ruling echoes the growing consensus of opinion that UIGEA is a fundamentally flawed statute.”
“We believe Judge Cooper missed the opportunity to affirm Americans’ online privacy rights and we plan to appeal to the Third Circuit Court of Appeals,” continued Bernstein. “However, her honor’s decision significantly undercuts the federal government’s argument that UIGEA is a well-drafted, effective and enforceable law.”
Excerpt from 2+2 thread on the decision:
It looks to me as a non-lawyer, that:
1) iMEGA has standing based on associational stuff and actual harm, i.e. their desired commercial activity is just that, and not free speech or commercial speech;
2) but the harm involved isn’t something the gov’t is not allowed to do;
3) the Wire Act is strengthened not that it needed it;
4) iMEGA lacks standing to bring privacy challenges for individual gamblers;
5) the position of the DOJ on WTO issues is strengthened as they say based on precedent that the gov’t cannot be bound by the WTO decisions (so much for bouncing betsy).
Lightning Poker, PokerTek in New Legal Skirmish
Pennsylvania-based Lightning Poker, Inc. announced on Tuesday that it had filed a patent infringement lawsuit against PokerTek, Inc., its primary competitor in the 'live' electronic poker table market. The latest action by Lightning...
Playtech and Sportingbet Announce Earnings
Playtech Ltd and Sportingbet PLC both reported their earnings earlier this week. Both companies posted improved financial results in their effort to rebuild after the industry's devastating loss of the lucrative US market...
#373 – NBC Heads-Up Championship #23 – Once and For All
The championship match of the Fourth NBC Heads-Up Championship is knotted at one apiece. Cards were in the air at 9:12 PM. As with the first two matches, the players started with 640,000 chips and blinds were set at 3k-6k,...
New Scientist: Researchers developing anti-fraud ‘Gambling DNA’
The New Scientist published an article today on an interesting evolution in online gambling fraud-prevention tactics: the development of a robust player profile, or DNA, that tracks tendencies and alerts a system to deviation from those established patterns. Excerpt from the story: To ensure a human, and ��...full article
The New Scientist published an article today on an interesting evolution in online gambling fraud-prevention tactics: the development of a robust player profile, or DNA, that tracks tendencies and alerts a system to deviation from those established patterns.
Excerpt from the story:
To ensure a human, and the correct human at that, is playing, Roman Yampolskiy of the University at Buffalo in New York and his colleague Venu Govindaraju have written software that monitors how you play. It catalogues how often and how much a player tends to bet, increases the bet, bets everything, or folds - giving up altogether. This information is bundled up into a personalised measure - the player’s “gambling DNA” - that can then be used to confirm their identity. Any deviation from that behaviour is flagged up as suspicious. After just an hour of play, Yampolskiy says, the software can authenticate players with 80 per cent accuracy - and that gets better the longer they play.
#360 - Mojo Ricin
Sorry to interrupt my coverage of the NBC Heads-Up Championship, but you'll understand why I have to for this story ... An international news story is developing about a man in Las Vegas who has been hospitalized for two weeks...
UltimateBet responds to cheating allegations
UltimateBet released a press release today concerning allegations that one of its members, “NioNio” may have been cheating in some way while playing on the site. There are also rumors about other players. In a statement that was released on 2+2, UltimateBet talks about the allegations: On ��...full article
UltimateBet released a press release today concerning allegations that one of its members, “NioNio” may have been cheating in some way while playing on the site. There are also rumors about other players.
In a statement that was released on 2+2, UltimateBet talks about the allegations:
On January 12, 2008, UltimateBet says it “was alerted to allegations that a player with the online handle “NioNio” exhibited abnormally high winning statistics and was accused of having an unfair advantage during play. These allegations were made both directly to UltimateBet by concerned players and the KGC (Kahnawake Gaming Commission), and indirectly through several web forums. The allegations also included reports of suspicious activity concerning the deletion of the NioNio account and other accounts that may have been related to this scheme.
We immediately launched an extensive inquiry involving an independent third-party expert to review hundreds of thousands of hand histories, all of which were promptly locked down and made available to this expert. The initial findings of our third-party expert confirm that the NioNio account’s winning statistics were indeed abnormal, and we have expanded the investigation to look into whether an unfair advantage existed, how such a scheme might have been perpetrated, and whether additional accounts beyond those of NioNio were involved.
UltimateBet is now controlled by the same company as Absolute Poker, where a cheating scandal was uncovered last year.
NioNio largely played cash ring games before his account became inactive on the site, and some estimate the player won hundreds of thousands of dollars.
The investigation is not yet complete, so it’s not yet known if this is another “superuser” scandal that could have huge repercussions for UB.
Full story on pokerkingblog.com here.
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