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July, 2008
July 30th, 2008
With the cloud of cheating scandal still hovering over UltimateBet, The Kahnawáke Gaming Commission (KGC) — which licenses both UltimateBet and Absolute Poker — released a statement Wednesday updating its progress on the investigation into UltimateBet, which along with Absolute Poker is owned by Tokwiro Enterprises ENRG. The owner of Tokwiro Enterprises is Joe Norton, former Grand Chief of the Kahnawáke.
The KGC admits in its press release that its actions were not “well communicated to the poker industry or public at large” and says it is attempting to dispel an “incorrect perception” that it was “doing nothing” in the wake of a second cheating scandal within the last year.
The cheating allegations, which surfaced in January, marked the second time in less than a year that a Tokwiro property has had to investigate unfair play at of its poker rooms. In January, the KGC fined Tokwiro’s Absolute Poker $500,000 after it was revealed players with “superuser” accounts that could see hole cards of opponents had cheated. And this past May, UltimateBet’s owners, Tokwiro Enterprises ENRG, admitted UltimateBet’s security had been breached by former employees and accounts with access to opponent’s hole cards were used to cheat in high-stakes games.
“The investigation has concluded that certain player accounts did in fact have an unfair advantage, and that these accounts targeted the highest limit games on the site,” UltimateBet said in a statement. “The individuals responsible were found to have worked for the previous ownership of UltimateBet prior to the sale of the business to Tokwiro in October 2006. Tokwiro is taking full responsibility for this situation and will immediately begin refunding UltimateBet customers for any losses that were incurred as a result of unfair play. “The fraudulent activity was enabled by unauthorized software code that allowed the perpetrators to obtain hole card information during live play. The existence of this vulnerability was unknown to Tokwiro until February 2008 and existed prior to UltimateBet’s acquisition by Tokwiro in October 2006. Our investigation has confirmed that the code was part of a legacy auditing system that was manipulated by the perpetrators. Gaming Associates, independent auditors hired by the KGC, have confirmed that the software code that provided the unfair advantage has been permanently removed.” In separate press releases in June and July, UltimateBet admitted that more accounts than were originally announced in May were part of the cheating scandal, and moved to refund money to affected players.
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July 26th, 2008
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July 18th, 2008
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July 18th, 2008
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July 16th, 2008
The month of August could see a landmark event if a bill before the Senate Appropriations Committee is voted forward. It’s next stop would be a full vote on the California Senate floor, and that could lead to legalised online poker within the state of California. The man behind the AB2026 is Assemblyman Lloyd Levine, a Democrat from Van Nuys, and he could go down in US gambling history as the creator of the first state legislation to regulate and legalise intrastate online poker for its residents.
The full title of AB2026, which was introduced in February this year, is the California Gambling Control/Intrastate Online Poker Legalization Act, and it was originally designed to commission a full and proper study of the online poker phenomenon with a view to legalising the pastime in California.
Since then it has morphed into something far more positive after extensive debate and discussion among Californian legislators, however, and it now calls for implementing online poker legislation and regulation within the state.
The bill has its genesis in a provision of the federal Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act 2006 which permits each state to allow in-state poker provided certain conditions are met. AB2026 meets those conditions, and this has been confirmed by California legislative counsel examining the proposed law, who reported that “…the operation of online poker for intrastate transactions qualifies under the UIGEA exemption and does not violate the four federal Acts referenced in UIGEA.”
Levine has shepherded AB2026 through approval in the Assembly and extensive debate in the Senate Governmental Organization Committee (GOC), prior to its being referred to its next destination - the Senate Appropriations Committee in August. Last month an amendment approved by a 6 - 1 GOC vote required the California Bureau of Gambling Control to consult with the California Gambling Control Commission (CGCC) in order to adopt regulations for the initiative no later than July 1, 2009.
AB2026’s ‘citizens sponsor’, the Poker Voters of America is pleased with progress. President Jim Tabilio said that the latest developments were a good sign that the legislators are taking the issue seriously, understand the importance of the bill and are asking the right questions. “The plan going forward is to bring together the potential stakeholders to help craft a final version of the bill that protects Californians who play online and maximizes revenue for the state,” he said recently.
All will not be plain sailing, however. Certain tribal gaming interests appear to be worried that they may be excluded from any new online poker business, or might have to change their existing gaming compacts with the state to compete in a new dispensation, and that could mean opposition. That being the case, the support of tribal gaming interested parties is viewed as key to the bill’s passage. “If they’re not going to play, it’s not going to happen,” said Tabilio. “We want the tribes to be able to play.”
Levine’s amended bill calls for licensing and registration of operators with the Commission, with a registration fee charged and subject to meeting the requirements of the Commission regarding elements such as the network. Licensed gambling establishments may not offer internet poker independent of that network. The bill also makes provision for measures to be taken to ensure player protection.
“We said four months ago that the goal of Poker Voters of America was creation of a regulated online intrastate system that conforms to Federal law and protects California players by licensing legal, secure and regulated alternatives to offshore online poker,” said Tabilio, speaking to the media following last month’s committee hearing. “[The Committee's] vote confirms that we’re on track to accomplish that goal.”
Various estimates put the Californian poker population at around 2 million, and the state has seen previous attempts to legalise online poker. In previous years (see earlier InfoPowa reports), California poker player Anthony “Tuff Fish” Sandstrom started a petition calling for a state-run online poker site for residents. His petition was approved by the California Secretary of State, and scheduled for the February 2008 ballot, but for reasons that are not clear he later withdrew his application.
Levine is unlikely to abandon his proposal - he is on record as saying that he wants to see a safe, regulated and legal system that allows Californians to play poker on the Internet, and hopes to have his bill through the next hurdle by the end of August.
“We hope to have this bill passed through the legislature by the end of August and signed into law in the fall,” he told reporters recently. “My hope is that it would go into effect in January of next year. We would then have the Division of Gaming Control and the Attorney General’s office spend whatever brief period of time they would need to draft the appropriate regulations and hopefully sometime in the middle of next year we could actually have legal poker online in California.”
July 12th, 2008
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July 9th, 2008
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July 3rd, 2008
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