Americas Cardroom offering double guarantees
Casino City Times
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica — (PRESS RELEASE) — How do you top a double guarantee promo that caused 12000 online poker players to shuffle up and deal? By doing it again for a whole week. Americas Cardroom (Doyles Room) today announced the launch of Double …

Viktor 'Isildur1' Blom Takes Down PCA Super High Roller
Poker News Report
The final table began with every player knowing that just the top five were going to be paid, so American Scott Seiver, Canadian Mike 'Timex' McDonald, and Costa Rican Humberto Brenes ended up as the unfortunate trio to leave without cashing.
Viktor Blom wins big at PCAESPN (blog)

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Americas Cardroom unveils new points race
Casino City Times
San Jose, Costa Rica –- (PRESS RELEASE) — Online poker players who miss the dealt rake method poker sites once used to calculate rewards now have a big reason to make a run for Americas Cardroom (Doyles Room). The US-friendly online poker site today …

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Online Poker Companies Payment Processor Faces Up to 55 Years for Deceiving US …
LoanSafe
RUBIN, a United States citizen who had been residing in Costa Rica since 2008, was detained in Guatemala on April 26, 2011, and then transferred to the United States. He pled guilty today before US Magistrate Judge Gabriel W. Gorenstein.
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Money man in US online poker case admits fraudReuters
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Ira Rubin Pleads Guilty on 3 Criminal Counts
Tight Poker
Since the three major poker rooms found ways to dodge the law, they could continue to offer online gambling services in the US. According to the US government, Ira Rubin operated from Costa Rica, where he had fled to avoid being arrested in the US back …

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Cereus Customers May Finally Get Some of their Money Back
Off Shore Gaming Assocation
They attracted investors and in 2003 formed SGS Systems Inc. which incorporated in Belize and was the parent company of Absolute Poker. Absolute Poker ran from servers in Costa Rica and immediately due to a successful marketing campaign had a large …

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Inspector General, Volcker Rule, Piracy, EU: Compliance
Bloomberg
… claims Rubin worked from Costa Rica, where he lived since fleeing to avoid a US arrest warrant in 2008, helping offshore poker companies move “billions of dollars in illegal gambling proceeds” disguised as payments to phony Internet merchants.

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Viktor 'Isildur1' Blom Captures PCA $100000 Super High Roller Title
Poker News Daily
Two players, Daniel Negreanu and Humberto Brenes, were also at this final table in the 2011 version of the tournament, while others such as former World Champion Jonathan Duhamel, Mike McDonald, Dan Shak, Scott Seiver and Blom were all in pursuit of …
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Viktor Blom Wins PCA Super High Roller 2012Online Poker.net
2012 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure Super High Roller Day 3: Viktor Blom Wins …PokerNews.com
ESPN (blog) -Eat My Stack -Bluff Magazine
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Isaac Haxton Leads PCA Super High Roller Day 1
Poker News Report
Vegas-based Erik Seidel is third on 753000 chips at the ninth staging of the PCA, while he is followed by two Team PokerStars Pros in Canadian Jonathan Duhamel (729000) and San Jose-based Costa Rican Humberto Brenes (609000). A total of 30 players paid …
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Jason Mercier Stays on Top of Global Poker Index 300
Poker News Report
The other new entries are Brian Powell (277th on 1081.56), Andrea Benelli (278th on 1080.02), Maksim Kolosov (288th on 1066.87), Dana Kellstrom (289th on 1066.81), Humberto Brenes (291st on 1062.05), Ted Forrest (292nd on 1061.53), Denys Drobyna (293rd …

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