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Not sure if it has been posted here, but it looks like another site is up to some shadiness. It's a long thread, but definitely worth reading:http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/28/inter...erusers-540094/http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/29/news-...scandal-542214/

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It's mostly a bunch of props playing on that site, that's why. Crappy site but it's worth it for 90% rakeback. I've been following this since the accusations first started. At first I thought people were just being paranoid, but now it's looking pretty bad...

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lol, doubt they could make themselves look more guilty, every piece of evidence presented in the thread is pretty much disappearing

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I played on Pitbull Poker around 2005. They were giving away $10 free with no deposit. I figured i would give it a try considering the only stipulation to cashing out the free monies was to play certain number of hands and must deposit $25.Well ended up running the $10 free up to around 1k. So deposited the $25 neccessary to complete the free offer. Originally asked for Western Union but was informed that option was no longer available. So asked for a check instead and received it in about a week.As for noticing anything susipicious. I would have to say no. I played limits of $1/$2 and $2/$4. The only problem I did have was the t-shirt and hat I was to receive after building up a certain amount of comp points, took about 2 years or so to finally get shipped.

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I played on Pitbull Poker around 2005. They were giving away $10 free with no deposit. I figured i would give it a try considering the only stipulation to cashing out the free monies was to play certain number of hands and must deposit $25.Well ended up running the $10 free up to around 1k. So deposited the $25 neccessary to complete the free offer. Originally asked for Western Union but was informed that option was no longer available. So asked for a check instead and received it in about a week.As for noticing anything susipicious. I would have to say no. I played limits of $1/$2 and $2/$4. The only problem I did have was the t-shirt and hat I was to receive after building up a certain amount of comp points, took about 2 years or so to finally get shipped.
<insert the "how many accts did you play on to run $10-1k joke here">vn semi-hidden brag as well
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I had never even heard of 'Pitbull Poker' until this thread. By reading the threads its pretty obvious that something shady is going on there but it's still hard to determine what exactly that is at this point. Only time will tell.

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There are a lot of scumbags involved in some online gaming sites.My personal favorite story is the Starnet Casino one. They were publicly traded on the Vancouver Stock Exchange and were one of the first online casinos.The problem is that their servers were located in Vancouver which was illegal and they were also controlled by the Hells Angels. They operated their online porn business from the same offices as the casino so in one room there would be a porn shoot going on and in another casino people.After the RCMP charged them they changed the name of the business to World Gaming and eventually went out of business when the UIGEA was passed as they were trying to merge with Sportingbet who were the parent of Paradise Poker.http://www.americanmafia.com/Feature_Articles_70.htmlInteresting article at the above link from 2000.

Before its spectacular fall from grace, Starnet was the pride of Vancouver, where it was hailed as an Internet success story. Its founder, Ken Lelek was hailed as an Internet pioneer. A local boy made good through hard work and dedication to a dream. Even the national government praised their rapid rise to the top. Starnet's stock was considered one of the best buys on the market, and in less then a year its price leaped from 37.5 cents to a high of $29 by July of 1999. At its peak, Starnet's paper value neared $900 million. In fact, the company's stock was selling so well that Starnet applied for permission to trade on the prestigious Nasdaq market. In 1998 a "Nightline" broadcast about online businesses hailed Starnet as a "reputable pioneer of Internet gambling." Starnet's revenues for fiscal 1999 totaled $9.7 million. Starnet was the up and comer. Then it all fell apart. At the break of dawn on August 20, 1999, in Vancouver's seediest neighborhood, several squads of heavily armed members of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police kicked in the steel-vaulted security door to Starnet's corporate office and working around the clock over the next three days seized all of the company files, papers and computer equipment. The Starnet probe, dubbed "Project Enigma," by the federal police, even searched through the garbage at the homes of company executives and impounded their personnel phone books. The raid on Starnet shocked Vancouver and the Internet business community. However, the raid was the culmination of an 18-month probe of Starnet's operation, which the RCMP was now describing "substantially and fundamentally an illegal enterprise." involved in pornography and money laundering through the Internet. This is no small charge considering the CIA claims that Vancouver is the new center for the illegal sex trade in North America. Police also said that the company's adult-entertainment Web sites contain graphic depiction's of sadomasochism, which violated Canada's anti-obscenity laws. The day after the raid, Starnet honcho's tried to empty the company's bank accounts but police had already frozen the accounts. Starnet's once promising stock plunged to its value of less then two dollars a share. It withdrew its application to Nasdaq and quietly, and quickly, relocated its headquarters to Antigua, far beyond the reach of the Canadian Royal Mounted Police or the U.S. Customs Service and the Internal Revenue Service which are now also investigating Starnet. It turned out that Starnet was far more then the hapless casino software developer it claimed to be. The company had branched out from providing software to running its own on line gambling casinos. Starnet was also selling sex, lots of it including Gay porn, live strip shows and all manner of hard-core pornography with customers in more than 60 countries. But it was the alleged illegal wagering that brought around a police sting. Officers posing as Canadian and American gamblers approached Starnet and placed bets with them, a violation of Canada's rigid anti gambling laws since Starnet didn't have a license to provide gambling services. Then new light was shed on Starnet's founder Ken Lelek, who now denied any substantial role in the company, a statement the police flatly dispute. According to the national police, Lelek was close to Lloyd Robnson, whom prosecutors and organized crime experts identified as a leader in the Hell's Angels Motorcycle Clubs Vancouver branch which is noted for its violent behavior and dealing in narcotics. Further digging showed that Lelek and Robnson ran a booking agency strippers for nightclubs which provided strippers for Starnets live Internet shows. And although the police won't confirm or deny it, the word around Ottawa's official circuit is that the RCMP opened its investigation of Starnet based on the Hells Angels link.
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There are a lot of scumbags involved in some online gaming sites.My personal favorite story is the Starnet Casino one. They were publicly traded on the Vancouver Stock Exchange and were one of the first online casinos.The problem is that their servers were located in Vancouver which was illegal and they were also controlled by the Hells Angels. They operated their online porn business from the same offices as the casino so in one room there would be a porn shoot going on and in another casino people.After the RCMP charged them they changed the name of the business to World Gaming and eventually went out of business when the UIGEA was passed as they were trying to merge with Sportingbet who were the parent of Paradise Poker.http://www.americanmafia.com/Feature_Articles_70.htmlInteresting article at the above link from 2000.
thats hilarious, not surprised at all the HA were involved.
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thats hilarious, not surprised at all the HA were involved.
Also shouldn't be surprised that the Vancouver Stock Exchange was involved. So many shady companies and stock scams started out listed there.
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Also shouldn't be surprised that the Vancouver Stock Exchange was involved. So many shady companies and stock scams started out listed there.
The same exchange that banned BODOG founder Calvin Ayre, as I recall... We will be tackling the pitbull situation tonight on the Hardcore Poker Show.... 8 PM eastern, www.hardcoresportsradio.com
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