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16 November 2007 ~ 3 Comments

Borgata Scandal: Mafia Runs Illegal Sportsbook in Atlantic City

What a shocker. Underground sports gambling rings are often associated with the mafia. Ok, maybe it’s not such a surprise. Location in this story is Atlantic City in New Jersey, home state of Tony Soprano in the hit HBO show The Sopranos. The casino sting operation 23 people have been charged with taking part in [...]

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11 November 2007 ~ 7 Comments

Radio Frequency Identification in Casino Slot Machines

From Ernie the Attorney:  Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is a hot topic. People talk about Wal-Mart using RFID tags to monitor inventory, but here’s a story that shows how a casino operation in Louisiana really needs RFID technology to monitor slot-machine keys, which sometimes seem to wind up getting lost and then removed from the [...]

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07 November 2007 ~ 1 Comment

Unibet CEO Petter Nylander Free on Bail

Petter Nylander, the former CEO of Unibet, is a free man – for now. With charges of advertising illegal gambling operations on his head, Petter has been set free of jail on a €200,000 bail (roughly $290,000 United States dollars). He may still have to come back to France due to some government investigations on [...]

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26 October 2007 ~ 3 Comments

Online Casino Customer Service Phone Numbers

This is a definite & comprehensive listing of all internet gambling casino telephone customer service numbers as well as email addresses.

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18 October 2007 ~ 35 Comments

The PokerStars WCOOP Scandal

The winner of the WCOOP was TheV0id. Keyword in that sentence is was. What’s the WCOOP? WCOOP stands for the World Championship of Online Poker and it’s an online poker tournament series sponsored by PokerStars. It started in 2002 as the online version of the World Series of Poker (WSOP). So you said “was”. TheVoid [...]

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17 October 2007 ~ 72 Comments

Official Absolute Poker Response To Player Fraud Allegations

AbsolutePoker.com October 12, 2007 Absolute Poker takes all allegations of player fraud and collusion extremely seriously. Fair play and security are of paramount importance to us. Our Security and Fraud Department is dedicated to ensuring that everyone on the site has a fair opportunity to win, and that no improper methods, devices, programs and/or other [...]

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16 October 2007 ~ 57 Comments

The Absolute Poker Scandal

Is AbsolutePoker.com rigged? Either way, the company is in big trouble. What follows in this post is huge news in the world of online poker and online casinos. Our story begins in 2003. Absolute Poker’s software is in development and many test accounts are created to make sure the program is working correctly. One of [...]

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10 October 2007 ~ Comments Off

PhatHash Throwing Up MD5 Hashes in Your Face

Who’s PhatHash? Why are they Phat and not Fat? The best way to describe them is that they provide a way for online casinos to prove that they are honest with their virtual decks by showing the user mathematical “hashes” as they play. Assuming you have some idea on how to use this long string [...]

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