On Monday, the Copenhagen City Council has seized DKK 26 million from a professional poker player and passed the verdict that he will be sentenced to 2 years and 6 months behind bars.
The criminal case hearing was first conducted in May and it was regarding the man's activities negatively affecting other poker players from 2008 until 2014. The defendant is convicted mainly for charges of hackin[...] Read more » Danish Poker Pro sentenced to Jail for Cheating Players Out Of $3.9 Million!
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well sometimes this kind of thing usually happens, and as we can see here they only put him in jail without much delay ... I would like to know if at least he made a more or less acceptable trial because from what I see he did not get many chances to the poor
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I do not understand why the name of this player is not specified here. It is strange that the Danish police did not specify more details about this mysterious gambler or his victims. I hope it's not Gus Hansen. Lol. I'm joking here with the last part.
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as I said this whole story need some more informations,its not like we have everything in this news and that only proof are words from his friend!?I know that denmark is normal country and have good laws,but still its only words from other person!they still need something more,something from his computer or server!
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Unfortunately, these problems are everywhere and because of this, the customers of these poker rooms, lose their confidence. It's not normal what happens. This Danish player could very well to stop playing a period, if he was smart. He could withdraw $ 3 million and the amount confiscated by the authorities, would have been much smaller.
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I always try to convince myself that all the games are clean even when wierd things happen. I tell myself - well, this is poker... But everytine I hear about cases like this it makes me a little more uneasy with playing online
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interesting case! for sure he was consumed by greed and a sense of impunity. why tell others about your scam? lost a large sum of money and several years of life Swedish laws are quite lenient
------------ interesting case! for sure he was consumed by greed and a sense of impunity. why tell others about your scam? lost a large sum of money and several years of life Swedish laws are quite lenient
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The ways to cheat and fraud in poker have evolved in great strides, this is an interesting case that should make us reflect on all the time it took to discover the culprit, the actions of this man negatively affected other poker players during Six years, and no one suspected anything, it is a difficult job for poker rooms to maintain security and it is also the responsibility of governments to enforce laws that protect poker players.
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What is this bullsheet story? he admited to someone he cheated em out of that much money, that he could see their cards?? Why would he do that, also arent those programs easily trackable to his computer. Or did he actually get sentenced based on them saying he did it...
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There are many bots in the poker rooms and it is not easy to catch them, if someone is not looking for them. When a cheater is found it, they will check much easier certain things, that incriminate him. That's fine, but it's a shame that there is no police to investigate and observe for bots.
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