A Las Vegas federal judge granted Australian Daniel Tzvetkoff bail as he awaits trial on four charges related to more than half a billion dollars worth of bank fraud, money laundering, and UIGEA violations. The 28-year-old payment processor faces up […]
Tzvetkoff Granted Bail Accused UIGEA violator could live under house arrest
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Daniel Tzvetkoff, first accused UIGEA criminal: Whoever said being a douchebag was a crime? Dude … it\’s gettin\’ hot here in the US … specifically in Las Vegas. Yesterday federal authorities arrested Daniel Tzvetkoff, a 27-year-old Australian national \”on charges
A little Google-translate suggests there\’s a lot more to this case than just a guy in Florida getting carried away with online poker money transfers. Apparently the detainee, Michael Schuett, is an accused fraudster in Germany who has been on
Still making sense of it all, and how this is different from other poker-related money seizures and charges against Canadian Douglas Rennick … but it looks to be something big, and a new level of poker prosecutions. Here\’s the story
Even though I\’ve gotten hooked on two-minute video interviews and have kinda taken a personal change-of-interest-pace and started paying attention to actual tournaments … big names are starting to win at the LAPC, WSOP-Circuit Tunica is kicking it old school,
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I\’m kinda glad I didn\’t respond to that spammish email trying to sell me pokerati.cn … the Commie reds are about to embark on a six-month, eight-agency crackdown on online gambling. Chinese officials did not respond to inquiries on whether
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There\’s a little brouhaha I think outta Costa Rica that I\’m not really following, but there might be something there. It involves PICClub … one of those loophole-based payment processing alternatives that has found itself embroiled in a 6-figure payment
PIC Club vs. Merge Minor-league American-friendly online poker battle
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It took some three years, but the mainstream media finally \”gets it\” … if not in print, than at least online. Check out the Newsweek blog post, \”High Stakes for Online Gamblers\”. Not only have they finally figured out how
via the PPA … Sen. Jon Kyl (R-AZ) and Rep. Spencer Bachus (R-AL) have submitted their petition asking Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke to ignore requests seeking to delay enforcement of the UIGEA.
RE: Banks Prepping for Kibosh (2) Old Congressional poker foes resurface
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Another example suggesting that change is afoot unless Barney Frank & Friends can save American-friendly online poker sites in 25 days or fewer when you count Thanksgiving. Click above to see the full letter, and click below for my Google
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