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United States v. Scheinberg, No. 1:10-cr-00336 (2011), is a United States federal criminal case against the founders of the three largest online poker companies, PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker and Cereus (Absolute Poker/Ultimatebet), and a handful of their associates, [1] which alleges that the defendants violated the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA) and engaged in bank fraud ...
Cereus Poker Network was an online poker network comprising Absolute Poker and Ultimate Bet. The site is now insolvent and not processing player withdrawals. Cereus is owned by a private company, Blanca Games. Blanca Games bought all Network assets in August 2010 from Tokwiro Enterprises.[1] The Cereus network was one of the world's ten largest ...
Straight Flush: The True Story of Six College Friends Who Dealt Their Way to a Billion-Dollar Online Poker Empire—and How It All Came Crashing Down is a book by Ben Mezrich. The text was published on May 28, 2013, by William Morrow and Company. [1][2] Straight Flush tells the story of a group of University of Montana students who turned their ...
The biggest scandal to hit the game in years appears to be headed for an ambiguous conclusion, with no clear-cut answers about what happened — or didn’t — on Sept. 29, when top high-stakes ...
Poker player Robbi Jade Lew in Beverly Hills on Wednesday. She has been accused of cheating by one of the game's top players. (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times) Robbi Jade Lew is determined to prove ...
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A cheat may hand-muck or palm one or more cards. When a cheat is "mucking" the cheat is cleverly hiding cards in their hand, to later switch their hand for. This may also be done with a confederate. A skilled cheat can deal the second card, the bottom card, the second from bottom card, and the middle card. The idea is to cull, or to find the ...
Adelstein, first to act, bet $2,500 and Lew, with the pot at $9,200, insta-called. The turn was the 3♥, improving neither player's hand. Adelstein bet $10,000, which was almost the size of the pot, making it $21,700. Lew raised the bet to $20,000 and Adelstein pushed all-in to Lew's remaining $109,000 stack. After taking some time to think ...