PokerTracker Domain Discovered Infected with Credit-Card Skimming Code
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by Haley Hintze
4y ago
Recent purchasers of popular online poker tracking software PokerTracker 4 have reason to be concerned after prominent anti-hacking research firm MalwareBytes published a report on Tuesday confirming that two domains associated with the program had been infected with card-credit skimming code linked to a giant criminal hacking group. The report by MalwareBytes came 12 days after a report from a PokerTracker customer, named “Smoking Joker” on the MalwareBytes forum, that opening the PT4 package was triggering a “fraud block” via the pokertracker.com domain, which was in turn sending traffic to ..read more
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DOJ Notifies Court of Plans to Appeal Wire Act Decision
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by Haley Hintze
4y ago
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) has filed a formal notice of intent to appeal the early June ruling from a US District of New Hampshire judge that nullified the DOJ’s Wire Act “reversal opinion” and continued to allow the interstate transmission of any form of gambling information except that related to sports betting. The reversal opinion was never formally signed when finalized in November 2018 but was published in January 2019 despite significant questions about its legality. Later research showed that large parts of the memo were crafted nearly word-for-word from draft communications su ..read more
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Bot-Hunting Efforts Continue at partypoker
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by Haley Hintze
4y ago
Partypoker’s ongoing global campaign to rid its sites of illicit bot activity has continued with the site’s recent announcement of several more dozen seized accounts caught cheating on party’s global (.com) and France-Spain (.eu) platforms. In an update covering the month of June, 2019, party identified another 67 fraudulent bot accounts, which make use of automated decision-making software, usually at lower and middle stakes, to steal money over time from human players. According to a recent post on the popular partypoker blog, 63 of the 67 closed accounts came on party’s global dot-com platf ..read more
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New Zealanders May Face New Restrictions Targeting Online Poker
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by Haley Hintze
4y ago
New Zealand’s many tens of thousands may face new restrictions in financing or even accessing their offshore online poker accounts after the country’s Internal Affairs Ministry recently announced an open consultation into several aspects of the online gambling services available to Kiwis. Currently, it is legal for New Zealand’s citizens to participate in virtually any online gambling form, even though only two categories — online lottery and sports betting — are official authorized by the government. Both of those verticals are operated by government entities, Lotto New Zealand and the New Ze ..read more
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Pennsylvania Online Poker Still in Holding Pattern
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by Haley Hintze
4y ago
It’s two weeks and change into Pennsylvania’s regulated online gambling regime and the state is off to a slow start, with just three sites online and online poker still seemingly some months away. Worse, from Pennsylvania poker players’ perspective, is that promised online-poker offerings still don’t have a fixed date for when they might be able to go live. Track back to July 15, when the first two Pennsylvania online-gambling sites arrived with a soft launch. Pennsylvania’s Parx Casino and Hollywood Casino opened that day, offering online slots and house-banked casino table games, and two day ..read more
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Inexpensive Facebook Poker Program Pluribus Crushes Pros at Six-Max
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by Haley Hintze
4y ago
While the threats posed by certain types of poker bots (a/k/a automated poker decision-making software) are a real and ongoing threat to online poker, there are some more fun stories related to the topic that are still worth the read. For instance, there’s the recent announcement jointly made by Facebook’s Artificial Intelligence initiative and AI researchers at Carnegie Mellon University about an inexpensive, self-learning bot that crushed a large handful of many notable pros during extended sessions of six-handed no-limit hold’em. The software’s success is notable in large part because it’s ..read more
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Chris Moneymaker, David Oppenheim Inducted into Poker Hall of Fame
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by Haley Hintze
4y ago
Amid the pomp and ceremony of the nearly completed 2019 World Series of Poker Main Event, the WSOP and its corporate parent, Caesars Interactive Entertainment, has announced this year’s inductees into the Poker Hall of Fame, Chris Moneymaker and David Oppenheim. Moneymaker and Oppenheim become the 57th and 58th persons to be inducted into the PHOF, following voting by an election committee that chose among ten official finalists selected in large part through a public nomination process and final vetting by the PHOF. The voters who selected Moneymaker and Oppenheim for enshrinement were a pool ..read more
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Brief Shelf Life for Congress-Proposed Wire Act Enforcement Blocker
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by Haley Hintze
4y ago
Then there’s the tale of a Congressional attempt to block the US Department of Justice from enforcing any law or aspect thereof as it relates to online gambling, particularly the “reversal opinion” offered by the DOJ and crafted by lobbyists for Sheldon Adelson’s Las Vegas Sands, Inc. that sought to bar virtually all forms of online gambling, including online poker, across the entire US. As we’ve previously reported, that Adelson-funded nastiness has run aground in the US legal system, where the State of New Hampshire has prevailed in its attempt to have that reversal opinion and a looming enf ..read more
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Eldorado Acquires Caesars, Becomes New Owner of WSOP.com
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by Haley Hintze
4y ago
The acquisition this week of Caesars Entertainment Corporation (CEC) by Reno-based Eldorado Resorts is one of those industry-changing events that’s going to have far-reaching impact across the poker and gambling scenes. The effects will necessarily spill into the online poker world, since the World Series of Poker and its online, WSOP.com-related offerings, are owned by Caesars Interactive Entertainment (CIE), a division of CEC that’s part and parcel of the larger deal. Of course, the big headlines are the creation through this merger/acquisition of the US’s largest casino-entertainment conglo ..read more
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Partypoker Surges Forward With New Software, Limited Hand Histories
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by Haley Hintze
4y ago
Partypoker has moved to the front of the list among online-poker sites seeking ways to combat the proliferation of third-party software program that give extra advantage to tech-savvy players by introducing this week a new edition of its user software that no longer provides traditional hand histories among several important changes. The upgrade, set live on June 17th, also forced all players logging in from that point forwards to choose new screen name — technically called aliases — as part of an effort to massively devalue existing hand histories and their use by many players within heads-up ..read more
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