NEW WRESTLEMANIA SPONSOR INVOLVED IN CHEATING SCANDAL
- 02/20/2009 (6:05:58 pm)
- Georgiann Makropoulos
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This was sent to me by Colin Vassallo:
NEW WRESTLEMANIA SPONSOR INVOLVED IN CHEATING SCANDAL
The recently announced new sponsor for WrestleMania 25, UltimateBet.
was involved in a cheating scandal from 2005-2007 which cheated online
players out of thousands of dollars. Employees of the former owners of
UltimateBet.
transferred hole-card information of other players to them during play.
Wrestling-Online Newsletter subscriber and poker player Joel Alpert was one
of the many who was cheated out of a lot of money. "I am a regular full time
poker player online and I refuse to give UltimateBet or their sister company
Absolute Poker any business in the future," Alpert said. Alpert added that
just last week the company called to clear up their name. "I prefer to go
with proven safely encrypted sites and I hate to think my fellow wrestling
newsletter readers would be led to a company that may still not be shuffling
a fair deck. Though the web site is now claiming a 100% honest game, it is
hard to risk money on an internet poker web site that has been previously
compromised since it is such a sensitive issue to never have a poker site
that your opponent can see your hole cards." 1994 World Series of Poker
winner Russ Hamilton was named as the mastermind and the person who
benefited from the whole scandal by the Kahnawake Gaming Commission after
they found "clear and convincing evidence". In February of last year the
company began issuing refunds to all players who were cheated. Now owned by
Tokwiro Enterprises, UltimateBet.
gaming servers are located thousands of miles away in Kahnawake, Canada.
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I used to be an online poker player and thankfully never played on either of the sites
that are mentioned above. I only wish the U.S. would legalize online poker, so things
like this do not happen. BTW - I only played on PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker.
We were a little ahead, so I was happy.
If you are an online poker player you should support
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