Mike Matusow is busting out and finally speaking about Russ Hamilton cheating him.
The guys on the Hardcore Poker Show landed an interview with Mike Matusow where The Mouth unloaded on Russ Hamilton.
To sum it up:
Hamilton kept calling Matusow to play heads up, and MATUSOW KEPT LENDING HAMILTON $50K to play him heads up. We put that in all caps for emphasis, btw. "Can you ship me $50k so we can play heads up and I can steal it from you?" Man that guy has balls.
Matusow claims to have evidence that proves Russ is 100% guilty (not that anyone doesn't think he is).
The incident has changed Matusow's style of play negatively (we've heard this from other pros too).
Other poker players are "pussies" for not being more vocal on the issue (couldn't agree more).
Listen: Clip 1| Clip 2| Clip 3| Clip 4| Clip 5
Tagged as: Mike Matusow, Poker News, Russ Hamilton, UltimateBet
UltimateBet's Phil Hellmuth has seen better days.
All right now, how many times do we have to say, "Quit playing on UB and Absolute Poker"? How many times?
Just when you think UB has bottomed out, another scandal. And this one involves their biggest star.
As first reported at pokerati here, Phil Hellmuth was involved in a pot during a $200/400 limit hold'em game where he held the losing hand yet was shipped the virtual cash.
The player on the losing end, DOUBLEBALLER, contacted customer support and eventually got his money back, but not before UB sustained another black eye on yet another software glitch.
While it's widely believed inside the industry that Hellmuth has had absolutely no involvement in any of the UB cheating scandals, this certainly won't help his rep to the masses.
Read more here and watch the hand play out here.
Tagged as: Online Poker, Phil Hellmuth, Poker News, UltimateBet
Charlotte McKenna is a model from UK. Because we're arrogant U.S. Americans, we immediately thought that meant she went to the University of Kentucky. But no, apparently there is some "United Kingdom" across the Atlantic Ocean from us. Whatever.
The CEREUS network (comprised of online poker cheating sites Absolute Poker and UltimateBet) won't allow Kentucky IP addresses from accessing their sites. This is in accordance with Franklin County's Circuit Court’s recent orders (from the domain seizure case).
From a press release:
"In complying with the Court’s orders, Tokwiro has agreed to implement an IP Block across its Absolute Poker and UltimateBet websites (both .net and .com), plus utlimatebet.tv. The Block will prevent players with IP addresses originating inside the Commonwealth of Kentucky from playing using AP and UB software, logging in or registering a new account, making deposits to the cashier, and transferring or receiving funds from other players. The IP Block will allow players with IP addresses originating in Kentucky to make withdrawals of existing account funds, but these players will not be able to make any new deposits or transfers.
Paul Leggett, Tokwiro’s Chief Operating Officer, said: “We have taken this action in order to ensure that the vast number of our customers, who do not reside in Kentucky, continue to have access to our sites and to enjoy playing online poker without disruption or inconvenience.”
Love how CEREUS sites have suddenly developed a conscience. Hopefully everyone in the 49 other states will do a self-imposed banning of the CEREUS network now.
Tagged as: CEREUS, Charlotte McKenna, Online Poker, Poker News
The 60 Minutes feature on the Absolute Poker and UltimateBet online poker cheating scandals earned a collective "meh" from the Entities.
Yeah it wasn't great for online poker but it could've been way, way worse. The final piece was far from the outright "hatchet job" we were told it would be.
Not everyone shares this opinion though. Taking a lot of heat right now is Todd "Dan Druff" Witteles for his closing comments:
"The people who did this were very greedy and very blatant. But the scary thing is there may be other accounts out there like this, maybe even on other sites that are not being done with the same sort of recklessness. And maybe this has been going on on more than Absolute Poker and UltimateBet, maybe it's going on in several other places, and maybe it's still going on on these sites."
Pretty legitimate concern (although we don't believe it is happening), especially if you were actually one of the people who was scammed, as Druff was.
But Druff is getting slammed on 2+2 (start reading here). Even Mason Malmouth went on a 2+2 podcast to use Druff's comments as an opp to smack down NWP and call for some weird "regulations" of sites within the poker industry.
The funny thing about this is Druff was one of the guy's who helped unearth the Absolute mess, doing the poker community a big service. Dude is getting no slip-up equity for that. And in the 2+2 podcast, it was also revealed that Druff even clarified his "controversial" statement that he did feel safe on other sites, but 60 Minutes didn't air it.
Anyway, more high school drama is sure to ensue. Listen to Mason's chat here.
Read more on NWP here. Druff to go on NWP Radio as well.
Watch the full 60 Minutes piece below for more perspective in case you did miss it.
Watch CBS Videos OnlineTagged as: 60 Minutes, Online Poker, Online Poker Cheating, Poker News, Todd Witteles
Absolute Douchebags: Potripper and other online poker cheaters were finally featured on 60 Minutes last night.
60 Minutes aired its online poker cheating story last night. Some initial thoughts:
- Could’ve been worse.
- Especially when Steve Kroft started it off by saying that you can simply access an on site by logging on to the “world wide web…” At least he didn’t go with “Information SuperhighwayTM.”
- Come on, Todd. You could’ve at least told them to refer to you as Todd “Dan Druff” Witteles. Nice NWP representing nonetheless.
- The Kahnawake Gaming Commission is absolutely useless.
- The fact that no criminal action has been brought against Russ Hamilton is disgusting.
We’re currently working on a major Russ Hamilton story, and like 60 Minutes, tried contacting him about a month ago and had similar results. We know of a few big name pros who Hamilton personally stole money from through a super-user account. The dude is a slimeball.
More to come…but read more on the scandals here, here, and here.
Tagged as: 60 Minutes, Online Poker, Poker News, Russ Hamilton
CEREUS is the name of the new Absolute Poker + UB super poker platform, which not ironically at all is also the name of the genus name for a cactus plant, as CEREUS will likely leave your account as dry as a desert.
In what has to be the best news ever for people who enjoy buying timeshares, taking part in pyramid schemes, flushing their money down the toilet, or simply getting robbed, Ultimate Bet and Absolute Poker have decided to "integrate customers and features" and create one big super user account scamming online poker platform called CEREUS.
According to the press release:
Today, the management of both Absolute Poker and UltimateBet announced the upcoming launch of CEREUS: a new poker platform that will integrate the customers and features from both poker rooms, instantly making CEREUS the third largest online poker network.
Also according to the press release:
CEREUS is the result of more than 12 months innovation and development.
We’d love to sit in on those R&D meetings. "Ok guys, we’ve developed some ground-breaking super-user technology that will more randomize results so the guy manning the account doesn’t actually win EVERY SINGLE hand, minimizing short-term profits but enabling us to present more logical long-term winnings." "Brilliant!"*
There is so much wrong and ridiculous about this it’s, um, ridiculous. Doesn’t matter though as it seems most people don’t care and keep playing these sites. Regardless, read the full press release on the WCP forum here and pick out your favorite lines. For a reminder on why you should never, EVER play on these sites, go here, here, here, and here.
Related, Joanna Krupa doing Ed Hardy is cereusly super.
* Sadly, this conversation might’ve actually happened.
Tagged as: Absolute Poker, CEREUS, Poker News, Ultimate Bet
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