Pokerati » pitbull poker http://pokerati.com Texas Hold'em and WSOP Poker Blog with Las Vegas PLO Sat, 26 May 2012 13:06:23 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Carruthers Changes Guilty Plea, Delaware=Bogus + PitbullPerspectives Weekly http://pokerati.com/2009/10/carruthers-changes-guilty-plea-pitbull-shutdown-delawarebogusperspectives-weekly/ http://pokerati.com/2009/10/carruthers-changes-guilty-plea-pitbull-shutdown-delawarebogusperspectives-weekly/#comments Mon, 05 Oct 2009 02:53:31 +0000 J. Todd http://pokerati.com/?p=12355

We have two major news stories in online gambling. The first is that former BetOnSports CEO David Carruthers has withdrawn his guilty plea in Missouri. And the second is the closing of Pitbull Poker, with rumors of criminal activity and arrests in Costa Rica. Those stories and other industry news.

]]> http://pokerati.com/2009/10/carruthers-changes-guilty-plea-pitbull-shutdown-delawarebogusperspectives-weekly/feed/ 0 RE: Pitbull Poker Shuts Down, Owner(s) Arrested in Costa Rica http://pokerati.com/2009/09/re-pitbull-poker-shuts-down-owners-arrested-in-costa-rica/ http://pokerati.com/2009/09/re-pitbull-poker-shuts-down-owners-arrested-in-costa-rica/#comments Wed, 30 Sep 2009 16:07:21 +0000 California Jen http://pokerati.com/?p=12188 According to this Bluff Latino America piece, there were some arrests made when the night shift employees grew suspicious and asked the police to stop it.

According to, now former employees of Pitbull Gaming, the owners decided to tell the night shift that they were going to make maintenance to the building. The night shift crew were suspicious about this and decided to stay to see what was really going to happen. The employees saw how a truck started gathering all the office equipment. This is the moment when employees went to the police and explained the situation and went back with the police in order to stop the process. Apparently, there are some arrests and right now the employees are in court explaining the situation to the authorities, to explain them that he is in a “flight risk” situation and should not let the owners out of Costa Rica.

]]> http://pokerati.com/2009/09/re-pitbull-poker-shuts-down-owners-arrested-in-costa-rica/feed/ 3 Pitbull Poker Shuts Down in Dark of Night http://pokerati.com/2009/09/pitbull-poker-shuts-down-in-dark-of-night/ http://pokerati.com/2009/09/pitbull-poker-shuts-down-in-dark-of-night/#comments Wed, 30 Sep 2009 15:49:30 +0000 Dan Michalski http://pokerati.com/?p=12185 Those looking to cash out from Pitbull Poker may have to wait in perpetuity.

From LasVegasVegas:

Pitbull Poker has seemingly closed its doors for business.
Players can visit the website but are unable to login to the poker client, and sources say the owners in Costa Rica were seen moving out computers in the middle of the night.

Pitbull was originally launched under WSOP.com, a domain registered by former Binions employee Federico Schiavio … Recently Pitbull Poker had been accused of having “superuser” accounts, similar to the Absolute Poker scandal, in which one player can see everyone else’s hole cards.

WSOP.com was one of the first big post-boom poker lawsuits … with Harrah’s successfully wrangling the domain name from the old Binion’s tech guy who held onto it after Binion’s handed over the keys to the WSOP.

]]> http://pokerati.com/2009/09/pitbull-poker-shuts-down-in-dark-of-night/feed/ 1 Pitbull Poker in the Doghouse with Players http://pokerati.com/2009/08/pitbull-poker-in-the-doghouse-with-players/ http://pokerati.com/2009/08/pitbull-poker-in-the-doghouse-with-players/#comments Mon, 03 Aug 2009 18:30:45 +0000 California Jen http://pokerati.com/?p=10926 There seems to be a cheating scandal brewing at Pitbull Poker, or at least a group of well-documented incidents that don’t sit well with players, according to an ever-growing thread on 2+2. While they can’t seem to pinpoint what is wrong – not quite a superuser situation – many players are citing the fact that hand histories aren’t easy to examine, they sometimes disappear from the site, and hole cards that sometimes appear randomly.

It’s a bit confusing, but Poker News Daily seems to have broken down the allegations of superuser accounts, stack shaving, odd hand history formats, and software glitches. The latest, as of a few days ago and just before the topic was closed by 2+2, original poster chesterboy wrote the following:

I believe all relevant people and companies have have been identified.

If there was wrongdoing, I believe I should be hearing back from some people that can verify the stories, especially if the sweatshop story has any truth to it.

If there was no wrongdoing, I am now back in productive dialogue with [Network Manager Dave Brenes], and we should be able to verify these things in a somewhat timely manner.

I am sorry things had to get this unpleasant to get an appropriate reaction from pitbull. So far the only verified shortcomings of pitbull are poor communication and slow response times. Kevin, while having a questionable history has not yet been shown to have done anything wrong here. I too do not have a perfect past though it may not show up on the internet so easily. We can’t condemn someone in this case for past wrongdoings.

They have been misleading regarding licenses but this is standard for the industry and not something I intend to pursue if there is no evidence of cheating on the site. I play in a state where poker is banned so it benefits me that some companies are willing to bend the law. Being that they are in Costa Rica it is possible they have not broken any laws.

Anyone have any history with Pitbull? Does anyone even play at Pitbull?

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