Tonight! On 60 Minutes: How Online Gamblers Unmasked Cheaters

[Westland Bowl]

As mentioned in the thread UltimateBet and Absolute Poker Scam (click here), there is a 60 Minutes segment airing in USA tonight (Sunday Nov 30) on CBS on how online gamblers successfully ferreted out cheaters.

A collaboration by two of the world's most respected news organizations [] reveals how online poker players suspecting cheating were forced to successfully ferret out the cheaters themselves. That's because managers of the mostly-unregulated $18 billion Internet gambling industry failed to respond to their complaints......

"He was raising, just really, really bad hands against very good hands. He seemed to play crazy," says Todd Witteles, a computer scientist turned poker player who believed he was losing too much to the same person. "It seemed like he was giving his money away. Except the only thing was, he wasn't losing. He was playing in a style that was sure to lose, but he was killing the game day after day......."

Here is 60 Minutes preliminary write-up on the segment to air tonight: 60 Minutes report on how online gamblers exposed cheaters!

[Simmo!]

Wonder if this has any bearing on their decision to rebrand the sites.

[Mick114]

Thanks alot for the heads up.I want to see that show.

[Westland Bowl]

The one thing that I don't like about the report is that they keep parroting the incorrect belief that online gambling is illegal in the USA. Of course, it is illegal in the STATES that have SPECIFIC laws against it, but there is no Federal laws against online gambling itself (outside of sportsbetting).

[casinokoenig]

is it possible to stream this via Web ? Or Download ?

Ty

[pokeraddict]

is it possible to stream this via Web ? Or Download ?

Ty

It should be on cbsnews.com around midnight ET.

[Alexishot69]

amazes me is the fact theres still thousands of people play there..anyone have any explanation why these sites are even allowed to exist after what went on here?

[mercy]

amazes me is the fact theres still thousands of people play there..anyone have any explanation why these sites are even allowed to exist after what went on here?

Because they are licensed and regulated in the great territory of the Kawanake indians in Canada which are out of reach of the federal government here and there.

[NASHVEGAS]

Source:www.cbsnews.com

"How Online Gamblers Unmasked Cheaters
60 Minutes/Washington Post Joint Investigation Questions Honesty, Security Of Gambling Sites"
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Afaik, it has always been the players. Maybe I should read the old English Harbour thread(s). Did the guy who still only promotes BODOG, (now with a payment disclaimer) miss something with EH, not sure!!

It took years in Vegas et al (and not apples and apples I know) like until the early 2000's for the patron to fight back. Just a matter of time and lots of money for the same at least in the US. It will be civil not criminal and not necessarily directed at the offshores per se.

Despite all the whatevers, fraud has not yet become legal in any form (including an industry, well you know) afaik on the Net. Hush Man!

That said, most above JM TABOO O!!