60 Minutes to Air Segment on Online Poker Cheating ScandalAbsolute Poker and UltimateBet Are in Their Crosshairsby Bob Pajich | Published: Nov 28, 2008 | |
 
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On Sunday, Nov. 30, the nation will be told about the online poker cheating scandal that rocked the poker world during this week’s broadcast of “60 Minutes.”
Titled “The Cheaters,” the segment will focus on how online players uncovered cheating at UltimateBet and Absolute Poker. The story is a collaboration between “60 Minutes” reporter Steven Kroft and Washington Post’s two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Gilbert Gaul.
“60 Minutes” airs at 7 p.m. ET/PT.
CBS gave its viewers a teaser this week with a quote from pro Todd Witteles: “He was raising just really, really bad hands against very good hands. He seemed to play crazy. 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.”
Players from both UltimateBet and Absolute Poker, both which are owned by Tokwiro Enterprises, became victims of two different sets of cheaters, one set on each site. Both times, it was the online players themselves who became suspicious, which eventually led both of the sites and the Kahnawake Gaming Commission (which is charged with overseeing the sites) to act.
A video teaser of the segment has been released by CBS.
11 Comments
patrick_kovalik
12 months ago
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SevenKidsPoppy
12 months ago
Yum.
detroitjunkie
12 months ago
well folks we just stepped back 5 paces for any hope of public opinion in favor of internet poker, and lets not forget kentuckys hearing for the domain name is in 3 days...could this spell the end of online poker...maybe if everyones cheating it should be...thank god i play at low stakes
riverhorse
12 months ago
good reason for the government to regulate it.
maninblack
12 months ago
what crap. all of what was said was already widely known.
komoka
12 months ago
well i think big mouth helmuth should comment on this as it ishis site
fogarbre
11 months ago
This is not the end of internet poker..it is the beginning of the end of CHEATING on online poker. Government regulation is not the answer either. The answer is to take the computer out of the process as much as possible. Can this be done? Yes it can. Please go to www.gioiasystems.com to see how the process can be made honest and with integrity.
dz
11 months ago
Whenever $$$$ is involved in any game in life - human involvement and cheating may occur. Lets look at whats happening in the stock market and thruout our economy at present.
This has been part of our society long before we existed, and will continue like every thing else that must happen in our world.
Regulation, sure, but that word has been also around, and even with all the regulations enabled, there will still be someone, somewhere, somehow looking for a way to cheat his fellow mankind.
Like itself is a gamble, with no answer to its outcome! The world goes on no matter what, SO, we'll just have to brush this episode off like birdshit on your shoulder and go on with the belief, things will get better!
Online Poker is here forever, you, me, him, her will never change the inevitable. Good Luck! and by the way, those two hole cards you hold are not Aces!
bmpek
11 months ago
if any of you think that the programing is not set up for the multitabler to stay in cash you are morons. the best players get beat consistely that play only one table or small limits
RUNIT1TIME
11 months ago
WHAT A SHAME
RUNIT1TIME
11 months ago
DOES ANYONE BELIEVE ANYMORE THAT ONLINE POKER IS TRUE TO ITS NAME AND THAT IT DOESNT HAVE INSIDE CHEATING WHY NOT THERE WOULD BE SO MUCH MONEY TO BE MADE SOME THINGS ARE JUST TO MESSED UP WHEN IT COMES TO MONEY