On Friday, an indictment against the founders of online poker's "big three" was unsealed by federal authorities. According to MarketWatch.com, the founders of PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker, and Absolute Poker were indicted on charges of bank fraud, money laundering, and illegal gambling. There were also restraining orders issued against over 75 bank accounts used by the online poker companies and their payment processors, as well as five Internet domain names.
The United States Department of Justice released a PDF of the indictment, and in it, 11 defendants are named: Isai Scheinberg, Raymond Bitar, Scott Tom, Brent Beckley, Nelson Burtnick, Paul Tate, Ryan Lang, Bradley Franzen, Ira Rubin, Chad Elie, and John Campos.
Perhaps venture capitalist Bill Perkins was feeling a little generous on Saturday’s episode of GSN’s “High Stakes Poker.” Perkins ended down over $350,000 during his two-week stint on the longstanding cash game series and was involved in several of the largest pots of the night.
You can catch all new episodes of “High Stakes Poker” on Saturdays at 8:00pm ET and 11:00pm ET on GSN. The series is in its seventh season.
All this week, “Poker After Dark” is hosting a $50K Idol game featuring five young guns battling poker legend Doyle Brunson. Each player received a starting stack of 50,000 in the unique sit and go and the blinds began at 300/600. You can catch “Poker After Dark” nightly at 2:05am ET on NBC.
Brunson was far from chatty during Monday night’s episode. Instead, Full Tilt Pokerpros Andrew “luckychewy” Lichtenberger and Tom “durrrr” Dwan provided most of the soundtrack. “Poker After Dark” makes its home at Aria in Las Vegas.
After the action was at a snail’s pace through the first half of the episode, the game picked up considerably. Inaugural World Series of Poker (WSOP) Europe Main Event champion Annette Obrestad was dealt pocket fives, raised to 1,500 before the flop, and Lichtenberger 3bet at to 4,100 with A-4. Obrestad came along and the flop of A-6-7 hit Lichtenberger hard. He disguised his hand by checking behind and the turn was a seven.