New Australian study claims poker players have  highest rates of problem gambling

February 16, 2018

Researchers at the Australian Gambling Research Centre (AGRC) have completed a problem gambling study in which they claim that poker players are most vulnerable to problem gambling issues. The study, based on data collected through the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics (HILDA) Survey overseen by the Melbourne Institute on behalf of the Department of Social […]

Online poker playing bank manager jailed

November 5, 2014

A manager at the Natwest bank in Biggin Hill, England has pleaded guilty to fraud after stealing GBP 185,000 from the accounts of two elderly customers, Julie Amos (83) and Leslie Pilditch (92). The since-dismissed manager, 56-year-old Glenn Mason, exacerbated his crimes by his unauthorised use of the identities of two of his colleagues to […]

74-year-old poker fan jailed for fraud

February 4, 2014

A 74-year-old former Irish school teacher with a persistent penchant for online poker found himself in the Dublin Circuit Criminal Court this week charged with defrauding his restaurateur employer of Euro 135,000. The Irish Times reports that John Carlos was employed as a part-time accountant by the restaurant, and pleaded guilty to forging signatures on […]