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Online Poker Cheating Scandals Support Case for Government Regulation, Says PPA


Annie Duke has fought the good fight for regulation of online poker while still supporting UltimateBet which faces allegations of insider cheating

UltimateBet’s Annie Duke spoke before Congress last November on behalf of the PPA in support of government regulation.

Chairman of the Poker Players Alliance Senator Alfonse D’Amato has just issued a statement on behalf of the PPA addressing the online poker cheating scandals that haven’t so much rocked the poker world as they’ve just provided good forum fodder for a small group of poker players at a website run by creepy old dudes while having absolutely no negative effect on the bottom line for the folks at Absolute Poker and UltimateBet.

In the statement, which will likely have all the efficacy of a Hans Blix letter to Kim Jong-Il, D’Amato calls for officials at AP, UB and the Kahnawake Gaming Commission to “provide a full and transparent accounting of these breaches of the public trust to help lift the black cloud that has been placed over the industry.”

D’Amato then argues that the abuses by insiders at both AP and UB show the need for government regulation as it is the government’s “basic responsibility” to “provide assurances” to consumers.

Says D’Amato:

“The recent cheating scandals underscore the need for U.S. licensing and regulation of online poker to help protect consumers” . . .

“The federal government cannot continue to abdicate this basic responsibility to millions of its citizens who choose to play poker on the Internet. The attempt to enforce an outright prohibition of online poker is deeply flawed and unworkable, not to mention it invades upon the personal freedoms of law-abiding adults who wish to engage in a game of skill.”

For what Ultimate Bet spokesperson Annie Duke said before Congress on behalf of the PPA last November go here.

Related stories:

:: Russ Hamilton Has Some Explaining To Do About UltimateBet Super User Accounts

:: BREAKING: 60 Minutes Interviews Mark Seif, Mike Sexton, Greg Raymer on Online Poker Cheating Scandal

:: Mark Seif on Absolute Poker Scandal: “I Had Nothing To Do With This”

:: Absolute Poker Says ‘Geek’ Employee Hacked System, Unicorns are Real

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60 Minutes to Take on Absolute Poker Insider Cheating Scandal


Online poker is about to get some unwanted mainstream media attention.

60 Minutes to do story on online poker, Absolute Poker, Liv Boeree is the girl in this picWord from various sources is that 60 Minutes, the venerable television news program watched mostly by people who do the early bird and smell like mothballs, is doing an investigative story on the Absolute Poker insider cheating scandal, which didn’t so much rock the online poker world last October as much as it became forum fodder for a few weeks then fizzled.

According to Nat Arem, the Atlanta kid who helped break the scandal wide open, veteran reporter Steve Kroft will be getting his Mike Wallace on in places like Canada, Costa Rica and Las Vegas as he does a “soup to nuts” piece on how AJ Green, a VP at Absolute Poker, was able to swindle millions of dollars from online poker players by using a “super user” account that allowed him to see opponent’s hole cards.

From Arem’s blog:

“A few weeks ago, I was contacted by 60 Minutes in conjunction with a reporter from the Washington Post regarding a story about the Absolute Poker scandal from last fall. I was told that they wanted Adanthar and myself for on-camera interviews with Steve Kroft. I later found out they were also interested in interviewing Michael Josem and Marco Johnson. Basically, I spent a little while on the phone with the producer and the Washington Post reporter and recapped the whole story as well as I could from memory. I talked about my involvement and contribution, along with all the other people who were involved.”

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Absolute Poker to Be Audited As Evidence Of Insider Cheating Mounts


Ser6After a month of allegations of cheating involving a super user account that could see player’s hole cards, endless forum threads that seem to prove the existence of such and now damning claims that the super user account belonged to its former CEO and new Davidson Matthew Club member Scott Tom, Absolute Poker will now finally be audited by someone other than Absolute Poker.

The Kahnawake Gaming Commission, which granted the gaming license to Absolute’s owner Tokwiro Enterprises, has directed Gaming Associates to “conduct a thorough audit of all circumstances, provide findings and recommendations to the commission.”

“The audit will not be restricted to examining theories circulating in Internet chat rooms and forums,” said KGC commissioner David Montour.

The pending audit follows Absolute Poker’s own investigation, which resulted in a statement posted on Mark Seif’s blog on BluffMagazine.com that a super user account never existed but pots of gold at the end of rainbows do exist as do leprechauns, unicorns and strippers who dance just to get through college.

As of tonight, Seif, who reportedly has a stake in Absolute Poker, finally issued his own statement on the matter, saying among other things:

“I want to find out the truth. I want to know what, if anything, may have happened . . . I am open to the possibility that improper, unethical and perhaps even unqualified cheating may have occurred at AP. I am even open to the possibility that present or former AP employees, or executives may have participated, condoned or were negligent in failing to discover the alleged improper acts.”

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El Blondie’s Cheatin’ Wife Wears Nothing Well


Davecolclough3UK media outlets reported this weekend (here and here) that top British poker player David “El Blondie” Colclough (at right), 43, has dumped his younger wife Rhowena (awful name) after finding the 27-year-old former TV hostess and Poker Dome Challenge semi-finalist romping in their marital bedroom with a 26-year-old friend. We’re no cyber sleuths but we’re guessing it’s the same 26-year-old the Chantel-like buttaface from Britain blogged about last November when she said, “It was one of my friend’s 26th birthday, so we took full advantage of this opportunity to spend the entire weekend in a drunken state, with Saturday being our homemade cocktail day.”

Do Brits have another word for “lush“?

According to the Sunday Mail in London, Colclough first reported the news on his blog, saying: “Came home from Monte Carlo to find my wife in bed with a 26-year-old.” He has since removed the entry but has allegedly confirmed that the relationship is indeed over. So we presume they weren’t swingers, which we mistakenly thought all British couples were, or at least that’s what the nice couple from Lancashire told us down in Virgin Gorda.

RhoweapokerdomeWhile we considered detailing what we would do if we ever found our wives shagging someone else, our lawyers suggested that we refrain from doing so. Plus, the possibility of our wives cheating is about the same as a fat kid with a tape worm who hasn’t eaten for days turning down chocolate cake on his birthday.

The real story here though is that the lush-alicious Rhowena Colclough has an aversion to clothing and likes to get naked for the camera, which, not to stereotype hot British girls, but they all have an aversion to clothing and like to get naked for the camera. Seriously, if you’re a British girl and don’t, it’s because you’re not hot. Simple as that.

Rhowena, whose maiden name is MacCuish (because she’s Scottish), allegedly had her own soft core porn modeling site called Rhowena’s Secrets where she revealed her “deepest darkest desires”. The site is no longer up but don’t fret because you can see samples of Rhowena’s secrets on this page (NSFW pics at bottom of page) found on a Fem Dom site not ironically called PlanetFemDom.com.

Rhowenasite_2On her page, Rhowena emphatically states “I DO NOT do any escort or adult orientated work,” but shares that “I love black and white artistic nude photography. It has so much power and shows off the human form in such a beautiful way.”

Don’t just take her word for it though. See the power for yourself on this other site (more NSFW photos of Rhowena) where Rhowena is artistically expressing herself in black and white, and wet and blue, and completely nekkid.

It’s worth noting that the first shot is a keeper. Really impressive, artistically speaking.

UPDATE: Rhowena.com, which features loads of spectacularly NSFW pics of Ms. Rhowena, can still be viewed here via archive.org. The photo to the right is a screen shot of the homepage. For what lies beyond there, click “Enter.”

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