60 Minutes Blows the Lid Off Online Poker – Nuts or Bluff?
Since all the buzz on the poker news networks this week is last Sunday’s 60 Minutes story on internet poker we might as well give it a second of our time here.
According to the report, CBS News and the Washington Post joined forces starting 8 months ago to investigate online poker, and more specifically the question of cheating in online poker.
Apparently a group of devout and upstanding online poker players had themselves banded together and managed to catch a handful of until-then extremely successful career cheaters. $20 million successful, to be more precise.
In the interest of protecting the innocent, we’ll proudly name the names of the guilty here, and the one 60 Minutes brought to light as being behind much of scandal was Russ Hamilton, a former World Series of Poker main event champ.
What is an online poker player to take away from all this? Two things:
- Cheaters get caught; knowledgeable players are watching closely and looking out for those who don’t know as well what to look for
- Now the general public is even more aware of the need to federally legalize and regulate the internet poker industry so things like this don’t happen again