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It wasn’t long ago that the very popular online casino poker site, Full Tilt
Poker announced that it was disqualifying two well known poker professionals
because of a reported cheated scandal. The two men, Sorel Mizzi and Chris
Vaughan, were caught cheating at the online casinos poker site in a one of the
sites many poker tourneys. Poker sites are increasingly looking for new ways to
maintain the integrity of the internet poker industry, and concerned players
should rest assured that Full tilt had the right policies and technology in
place to stop the cheating and disqualify the two players.
Sorel Ace is one of the two men disqualified at the Full Tilt tournament – he is
considered a poker ace in the online casinos poker industry, and he can bet that
getting caught cheating the system will certainly line his future winnings up
for speculation as well. The other cheater is Chris Vaughan, and his
disqualification was equally shocking to many online casino poker players
because he is the previous Managing Editor at Bluff Magazine – arguably one of
the top internet and land-based poker magazines that serves the UK and other
markets.
As a result of the cheating scandal, both men were forced to forfeit their
winnings – the site confiscated any of the winnings that had previously been
disbursed to the players. And in addition to losing the large online casinos
poker tournament prize, both men were met with criticism and scrutiny in the
news media and on internet poker blogs and chat rooms. Many in the industry were
surprised that two men with a well known name in the industry would go so far as
to cheat at the internet poker site to secure a win.
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