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Hats off to Mr. Daniel Tzvetkoff...... This is the story behind the Online Poker Seizure...

- Posted by BayAreaBoss 2011-04-25 22:00:27
- http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/how-a-vegas-boy-bet-the-house-and-lost-it-all-20110425-1dt81.html
  http://www.businessinsider.com/boy-genius-online-poker-scandal-2011-4
  "the one man who may have single-handedly built the online industry ... then handed it to the U.S. government on a platter."
  "They said the tech guru had set up a complex chain of fake websites and international bank accounts to cover the fact that Full Tilt Poker, PokerStars and Absolute Poker were making money from online gamblers in the US, which is illegal."
  "Thanks to Tzvetkoff's insider knowledge, the FBI is now rounding up and arresting the 11 men who run the world's biggest online poker websites. But while Tzvetkoff may have got out of jail, he has lost his freedom, probably for life."
- Posted by Tony Gags 2011-04-26 01:27:47
- Yup. He gave the opening the D.O.J needed.

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