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The Poker Grapevine – Another Full Tilt Lawsuit?
Posted by: Jo Martin - Wed, 2011-08-24 10:28
New Jersey State Senator Raymond Lesniak is apparently at it again. After he had his online poker bill vetoed by New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, he decided to re-write the bill here and there and to re-introduce it. The bill would make online poker legal in the State – not necessarily something organizations like the PPA, which are looking for a federal solution in the matter, would appreciate. According to Lesniak, the gambling and horse racing industries are dying a slow death in the Garden State and something needs to be done to address their plight.
Lesniak also said that the previous version of his bill was vetoed out of concern that its provisions would lead to the popping up of numerous internet cafes looking to cash in on the new state of affairs. The new version of the bill carries express provisions against such establishments.
In other news: the hole into which
Full Tilt Poker fell in the wake of the Black Friday DoJ moves, appears to be getting deeper by the week. About a month ago, professional poker player Todd Terry filed a class action lawsuit against the former online poker giant, acting on behalf of Full Tilt Poker account holders across the US. Raymond Bitar and Nelson Burtnick were named in that lawsuit, together with 13 other Full Tilt Poker members.
Now, another similar lawsuit has apparently been filed, this time by Donald Whelan and Zayn Jetha, two Canadian players who have named Bitar, Burtnick as well as Howard Lederer and a few of the companies associated with Full Tilt Poker, among them Tiltware.
In still other news: Daniel Cates gave a couple of interviews about multi-accounting a while ago that raised a whirlwind of confusion as to whether it was Haseeb Qureshi or Cates himself doing the multi-accounting. At any rate, Cates said in one of the interviews that if it did not involve some sort of deception, he didn’t view multi-accounting as something unethical.
