Scandals

Amaya Montreal Headquarters Raided by Securities Regulators

Amaya Gaming Group confirmed this week that its Montreal headquarters were raided by Quebec financial regulators seeking information related to its $4.9 billion acquisition of Rational Group in June of 2014. The PokerStars and...

Dan Bilzerian Bad Boy Streak Continues with Bomb Making Arrest

Bad boy poker player Dan Bilzerian was arrested by police at LAX on Tuesday night, charged with the possession bomb-making equipment. According to the criminal complaint, it seems Bilzerian had been illegally dabbling with...

PrivateTable.com Perched to Launch by California IIpay Nation Tribe

Online poker site PrivateTable.com, brought to you by the Iipay Nation of Santa Ysabel, appears to be pressing ahead with its launch, despite facing an imminent legal challenge from the State of California, which wants to pull...

Danish Poker Player Accused of Online Fraud

An unnamed Danish poker player has been accused of online fraud by Denmark’s Economic Crimes Department, which says that the player may have cheated in high-stakes games by planting a Trojan horse program on the computers...

Feds Go After $13 Million as Paul Phua Pleads Not Guilty in Sports Betting Bust

Paul Phua and his son Darren will plead not guilty to charges that they operated an illegal sports betting ring out of a Caesars Palace villa this summer, a decision that will send the case to trial. The two Phuas are the only...

Daniel Negreanu Strikes Back at Victoria Coren PokerStars Exit

Daniel Negreanu took to his blog at Full Contact Poker to talk about his feelings on poker and gambling in a message that seemed like a direct response to Victoria Coren Mitchell‘s recent decision to leave PokerStars....

Albert Riera Sacked by Italian Soccer Club Over Poker Tournament

Albert Riera, a winger for Italian soccer club Udinese, has reportedly had his contract with the club terminated because of his decision to attend a poker tournament in Slovenia rather than attend the team’s match against...

Poker Player Receives $340,000 over Facebook Defamation

An Australian poker player wrongly accused on Facebook of stealing from his roommate during a trip to the WSOP has won AU$340,000 in damages from four of his fellow players. Nicholas Polias sued his former friends after they...

Admiral Linked to Counterfeit Poker Chips

Rear Admiral Timothy Giardina has been linked to the counterfeit poker chips he use in a casino last year, with new evidence suggesting that he may have actually created the chips himself. According to a Naval Criminal...

Iipay Nation of Santa Ysabel Hit by Cease-and-Desist Federal Order

The Iipay Nation of Santa Ysabel is facing the first legal challenge to its new online bingo platform, which could impact its impending online poker site as well. The tribal operator went live with DesertRoseBingo.com earlier...