60 Minutes story about Superuser scandal will air this sunday!
- Filed under: High Stakes News, Online poker, Poker, poker televison
- Date: Nov 27,2008
The chapter of 60 Minutes is called “The Cheaters” and it is done in a collaboration with the Washington Post. The story will not for sure give a positive image for online poker if the rest of the show follows the same line as the trailer.
It is hard to tell beforehand how damaging the show will be for the online industry, but for sure it will be a hard blow for Ultimate Bet and Absolute Poker. Even though both poker rooms have tried to polish their reputation in many ways, they will without doubt lose many casual customers because of the show.
The show will feature interviews of players who was cheated by superuser accounts and some key people behind the investigation of the whole superuser scandal. Here a quote from the CBS website concerning the upcoming show:
“A collaboration by two of the world’s most respected news organizations reveals how online poker players suspecting cheating were forced to successfully ferret out the cheaters themselves. That’s because managers of the mostly-unregulated $18 billion Internet gambling industry failed to respond to their complaints.”
This could mean that players like Nate Arem who made investigations about Ultimate Bet in 2+2 forums could be interviewed too. Anyway, here is a trailer for what you can expect to see in the show:
Sources: CBS, Poker News Daily, Pokerkingblog
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