October 27, 2017
UltimateBet and Absolute Poker players left unpaid following the Black Friday debacle six years ago (see previous reports) may finally see their money following a US Department of Justice advisory earlier this week that a second round of payments totalling $3.7 million is to be made to 4,600 players through claims administrator Garden City. The […]
April 11, 2017
The long running saga that saw Absolute Poker and UltimateBet players victims of the Black Friday clamp down appears to be making some progress with a press statement from Garden City Group advising it will accept remission claims. Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, has retained […]
February 28, 2016
The much anticipated second half of Gaming Intelligence’s interview with Iovation founder and CEO Greg Pierson turned out – in the opinion of many readers – to be something of an anti-climax that left questions unanswered, and suggestions that deeper probing on the UltimateBet issue would have been justified. Industry people were referring to his […]
February 21, 2016
Last week’s news that Greg Pierson’s geolocation and verification company Iovation has been awarded a Nevada Gaming Commission licence (see previous report) surprised many in the industry, and prompted investigative journalist Haley Hintze to revisit online poker’s biggest yet cheating scandal on the Flushdraw online poker information site over the weekend. Our readers will perhaps […]
February 18, 2016
Online poker media are currently reporting that a company and its management implicated in the $20 million UltimateBet hole card cheating scandal several years ago (see previous reports) may be granted a Nevada gaming supplier licence to provide geo-location services in the state’s strictly controlled online gambling sector. Haley Hintze, a journalist who has extensively […]