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Poker Site Founder Murdered
 
August 14, 2009

Andreas Oscarsson was the founder of PokerListings.com. The site has been a long time popular site and made a lot of people very rich. It was one of the first sites to explore the idea of affiliates and as other online poker and casino sites took notice they all made big profits off of the idea of them. This small idea turned out to be a big money maker for an originally small group of investors who believed in this idea from the beginning.
 
However, Oscarsson has been found dead in his house, shot to death. On August 3rd, Oscarsson was found in his bedroom with his two year old son still in the house. The police said that the son was fine. Oscarsson was visiting his home that he had in Sweden and normally resided in New York. Sweden was his native country, and he had kept a home there after he left.
 
The police say that it looks like the poker king’s killing was a professional hit. The poker magnate had supposedly been getting threats for some time and that these death threats may have been coming from the person who finally did them in. According to Bluff Magazine Europe he may have been a target as early as a year ago. They say that a man bearing the same name was killed last year and they are speculating that the poker king may have been the target.
 
The poker magnate’s wife had not come on the trip – instead she had stayed home in New York and his son had come alone.