CBS Airs Show About Poker Cheating

Last night CBS's 60 Minutes aired a segment on the online Absolute Poker and Ultimate Bet cheating scandals. I was hoping that they would have made the point the scandals were a good reason for the U.S. Government to start regulating online poker, but instead they chose to falsely try and drive home the point that online poker is illegal. They constantly brought up terms like "they couldn't complain to the US authorities, because online gambling is illegal" .

60 minutes chose to avoid the UIGEA and was misleading on the laws of online poker . For those that do not know, the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA) did not make online poker illegal, the purpose of that law was to prevent banks from making transfers to gambling sites offshore . Nothing in the law says anything about making online poker illegal.

I do want to say that I am glad though that they aired about the cheating scandal. I have no use for cheats, and I personally could never promote any room that was found out to be cheating anyone. I have online associates that promote Absolute and Ultimate Bet, and that is their prerogative to do so, but I think that anyone that goes to play on either of those sites should be aware of their past history. I'll stick to playing online poker at sites that I have the utmost faith in like PDC Poker .

Here's the link to the full story on 60 Minutes reporting on the AP & UB Cheating Scandal .

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Comments

[carl]

wi th my recent deposit at pdc poker ive been thourly disgusted. i try to deposit they take my mony and give me no credit for it my credit card co says that pdc recieved my mony but they deny it i think its bad enough we have to worry abut chetars in the game but now we have to watch for th sites to steal our mony i love poker but this shit is getting old

[Earl]

Send Liam an email with the problem you may be having. I've never had, nor known anyone to have any issues with deposits or withdrawals from PDC, and I've been there since the beginnings of the entire network, back in 2005. He is the head honcho over there and can be reached by way of liam@pokercs.com .

If I can help you feel free to contact me at skinski@houseofpokerblues.com.

Earl