Online Poker Players Find Cheaters (Part III of III)
December 7, 2008
The online poker giant finally admitted that yes, an employee had ripped
them off, but they had cut them a deal to find out how he had done it. They
protected his identity, and in return he told them how he cheated. The poker
players had been ripped off and it seemed that there was nothing they could
do about it. So then they got even smarter, and went to the Mohawk nation
and complained there.
They maintained that they were a sovereign nation and that they did not
report to the Canadian government, and thus held their own investigation
into the scandal. This is fine, except the people holding the investigation
were the same people who were running the sites. There were previous tribal
leaders involved, and again it seemed that there was nothing they could do.
The heads of the poker sites were cleared of all wrong doing, and the names
of those that had been involved in cheating the other poker players were all
hushed up. They finally made them pay the losses to those that were cheated,
and made the sites pay a $2 million fine, but they are still in business.
Not willing to give up, the poker players pressed on trying to ind out who
was responsible at the poker sites. Eventually they discovered that the scam
had been going on for more than four years and that one of those responsible
was Russ Hamilton, a former champion at the World Series of Poker. Hamilton
is worth millions at this point, and lives in a gated golf course community
where he can’t be touched. No charges have been filed against anyone.
Experts say that there are those out there that are plotting their next move
and how they might be able to run the next scam. The fact of the matter is
that Hamilton and his groups of people that he had working for him are more
than likely to do it again, now that they know how. But if it hadn’t been
for a group of poker players, they would still be taking money from those
they were playing against.
