The Classic Money Laundering Fraud Scam with an Online Poker Twist
December 19, 2007
An acquaintance of mine just fell for a variation on his Full Tilt Poker account. The scam is the same, only the payment service changes between wire transfer, paypal, or in this case…an online gambling account. It’s quite ingenious, actually.
First of all, the criminal befriends his victim at a low limit table. He becomes a regular, chatting it up and letting slip how he’d be playing at
Bluff Fires Chris Vaughn after Cheating Controversy
December 11, 2007
The axe has fallen. BluffMedia (Bluff Magazine) has officially fired Managing Editor Chris Vaughn. After initially supporting him following the Mizzi/Vaughn account sharing fiasco at the Full Tilt $1,000,000 tournament, Bluff must have hoped that the story would dry up and blow away. One week of mounting industry pressure, however, has left the cheater Chris Vaughn on the soup line.
Matthew
Open Holdem Pokerbot Source Code Discussion
December 6, 2007
There seems to be a LOT of interest in OpenHoldem, the exciting new open source bot platform, and rightly so.
In my previous post I neglected to mention the official OpenHoldem forum hosted by MaxInMontreal of winholdem forum fame. It’s already gained the attention of quite a few botters/coders and I predict that forum will be a new hot spot for pokerbot discussion. Hot spot means quality,
Sorel Mizzi and Chris Vaughn Admit to Cheating the Full Tilt $1 Million Guaranteed Tournament
December 5, 2007
No more debating. They’ve both come clean.
Mizzi bought Vaughn’s account when the tournament was down to the final three tables, logged in, then resumed the tournament(ultimately winning), and still denies that he cheats in tournaments via multi-accounting. So let’s recap. Sorel Mizzi enters a tournament and plays hands from his own account as well as hands from Chris Vaughn’s Full Tilt
PokerStars Blogger Tournament 2007
December 5, 2007
Having finished in October, The PokerStars Blogger Texas Hold’em Tournament isn’t exactly the freshest online poker news, but I received a couple of emails asking me why I didn’t enter the event under this blog’s banner.
I’d like to think they are kidding, but just in case…
I like my accounts at PokerStars. They make me money. They make Pokerstars money as well, and they don’t seem to mind if
Another Full Tilt Poker Scam
December 3, 2007
Chris “BluffMagCV” Vaughn, Managing Editor of Bluff Magazine: BANNED!
Sorel “Imper1um” Mizzi: Maybe sorta almost banned?
Details are still hazy about Sorel Mizzi, but without question Chris Vaughn (Winner of TWO Full Tilt $1 Million Guaranteed Tournaments in a row) has been disqualified from the tournament, his winnings removed, and his account 100% banned from Full Tilt Poker after running a
Open Holdem, Free Online Poker Bot Source Code!
December 3, 2007
If you have been sitting on the sidelines, afraid of what virus or trojan might be hiding in a commercial pokerbot, now is the time to get in the game. Open Holdem is a new OPEN SOURCE (nearly) commercial quality botting platform.
That’s, right. It’s open source. You can see the source code and you are free to modify it anyway you like (within GPL restrictions, I believe).
OpenHoldem builds