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60 Minutes and More by Mike Sexton
On Sunday, November 30th, the nation was told about the online poker cheating scandal that rocked the poker world during the broadcast of “60 Minutes.” The segment focused on a "$20,000,000 cheating scandal" on two online sites - Absolute Poker and UltimateBet. The story was a collaborative effort between “60 Minutes” reporter Steve Kroft and Washington Post’s two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Gilbert Gaul. Ira Rosen was the producer. I was on a panel that was invited by the PPA (Poker Players Association) to represent the poker world on this 60 Minutes segment. That panel consisted of myself, Linda Johnson, and Greg Raymer. Our presence was not to defend these sites (because we couldn't - and wouldn't), but rather to offer our input as to why online poker should be regulated, legalized, and taxed. Steve Kroft conducted an interview with us for nearly an hour during the WSOP at the Rio. We expressed our disappointment and irritation regarding the cheating scandal and why that was the prime reason the online poker industry should be regulated (Money for the government would top the list by those who legalize it). Our panel also expressed that “freedom of choice” and individual responsibility should prevail when it ...
Barnex December 1st, 2008 at 9:24 pm
How about the Asian guy “HEY BABY”( or something like that ) jerk guy that was drunk and drinking beer the whole time at the table. He set poker back 20 years in my book. He was being such a big classless redneck acting jackass he would have been beat up in any decent poker game. A former winner Chan? During that paticular show he was drinking , players from the crowd also drunk were coming all the way up to the table in their drunken or high stupor getting involved in the redneck classless goings on. The show has to get the crowds actions and yelling under control, make the players act like Doyle Brunson who acts like he is a gentleman and not a backromm poker playing con artist. It made me sick due to the fact I was enjoying watching the shows until that night. Then the truth came out ,it had not changed . It was real bad and it is doubtfull I will ever watch again . Now we see the on line mob ripping people off. Poker is done in my little world and I’m sure they have lost a lot of their new poker fans.