60 minutes airing online poker story this weekend
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It’s been long rumored and discussed, but now it’s about to make the transition from the hypothetical to the actual. The “it”, of course, is the 60 Minutes segment devoted largely to covering the online cheating scandals that engulfed Ultimate Bet and Absolute Poker over the last year or so.
The segment will air as the lead story on November 30th. Here’s how CBS News is describing the segment on their website:
THE CHEATERS - 60 MINUTES and The Washington Post reveal how online poker players suspecting cheating were forced to successfully ferret out the cheaters themselves. That’s because managers of the mostly-unregulated $18 billion Internet gambling industry failed to respond to their complaints. Steve Kroft and The Washington Post’s Gilbert Gaul report. Ira Rosen is the producer
The pre-reaction is mixed; Wicked Chops is calling the story ‘a hatchet job’; Dan over at Pokerati takes a more positive view in an interesting post:
But the online-poker-regulation issue simply cannot get to where we want it without the support of non-poker players. And because the uber-pro-poker media such as CardPlayer, Bluff, and dare I say Pokerati can’t be expected to make the issue matter to these “swing voters” any more than Darus Suharto on Ellen would, we have to take the risk of putting it in the hands of 60 Minutes (or the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Washington Post, et al.)
Below is the ‘teaser’ clip for the segment from CBS News:
