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The Absolute Poker scandal from over a year ago simply couldn’t vanish with no consequences. And we’re talking about the consequences that the whole online casino poker gambling industry had to face and maybe still has to. That wasn’t all of course. Moreover, just six months later Ultimate Bet had the same issue. It took more than a year for the Tokwiro Enterprises before it started to strongly recover from the negative publicity. If you are not familiar with the case, we’re talking about the two infamous cheating scandals. Not to mention the way in which the parent company, Tokwiro handled the media. No wonder that gamblers lost faith in the online casinos and the internet poker gambling companies.

Tokwiro didn’t give up and just last month announced a name change for the company- the two online poker gambling sites operate on the Cereus Poker Network and they decided to take serious steps to pay their dues and earn the players’ trust again. And what would be a better way to do this if not providing them with big wins?

The big jackpot announcement from the Cereus Network comes by way of a Bad Beat jackpot payout of $250,000 for the player who triggered the jackpot. With no doubt, this is a great way for Ultimate Bet and Absolute Poker to make up for their mistakes…winning money is such a nice feeling, isn’t it? The winning player was very new to the poker gambling network and triggered the big jackpot by losing the round of poker with a straight flush- and that’s precisely how you trigger the jackpot on the bad beat games- you lose the round with what should be a winning hand.

The Bad Beat games are quite popular at the online casinos and poker gambling sites and the winning player as well as all other gamblers at the table, are definitely glad they were playing that hand of poker. The total jackpot came in nearly $790,000. The winner earned $250,000 and the rest was divided between other players.

The land gambling industry in Russia has been challenged for more than a year now. The limit put by the Russian government was simply unbearable to some companies. To be accurate, over 1,000 land casinos from Moscow alone were forced to withdraw from the business. Even those who were rather pessimistic about the future of the land casinos didn’t expect such high number of closures which have taken place over the past 18 months. Surprisingly, the land gambling industry has been so negatively targeted at a time when online casinos became more widespread and famous than ever before.

Former Russian President Vladimir Putin approved the legislation that forced land casinos out of the major cities and into the more remote areas of Russia. With the new law firmly in place over the past 18 months, the land gambling venues had to close their doors for operations- and many of the smaller venues have stayed closed rather than moving to the approved remote locations. The strict law takes as its aim to fight the increasing widespread of addictive gambling habits in Russians- some argue that it is the globalization of the online casino gambling industry that leads to this growing trend. So how does the law play its role?

It is not hard to predict how the situation will develop- the closures of land casinos will only push gamblers to online casinos and illegal gambling venues, and isn’t it the total opposite of the aim taken by the government? If the law was supposed to discourage gamblers and decrease the number of addicts, we should be doubtful about the results.

Not to mention the fact that the cities and regional governments have now lost out on a very large source of income- gambling taxes accounted for a large part of the fiscal budgets in big cities like Moscow.

The customers of Cantor Gaming might have been quite confused since they found that the company has shut down its two sites: CantorCasino.com and RedLoungeCasino.com. And what complicated things even more is the fact that while these two sites are no longer in operation, the company’s online poker site, Cantor-Poker.com is still operating. The reason and at the same time a good explanation of such situation could be that Cantor has suddenly decided to withdraw from operating online casinos and focus on the software licensing industry. And seems like this is really the case.

Cantor Gaming released a statement along with the closures which noted that the company has no plans to reopen the online casino gambling sites nor any similar sites.

At the same time, the company assured that there is no need for fear if its players are still having some funds in their accounts. These players were instructed simply to contact the company’s customer service department to arrange the withdrawal of their funds.

There has been much speculation around the Cantor Gaming surprising decision. First idea that comes to mind is that the forthcoming recession could be the reason. However, at the moment, most are speculating that these sudden closures have nothing to do with the recession, but rather with the fact that Cantor want to operate as a software provider for the online casinos rather than operate the internet gambling sites themselves.

The online gambling industry asked Cantor some important questions, such as what exact divisions of the company will continue to operate. No precise answers were given yet.

With no doubt, a reliable source of information is something that every beginning player is searching for. And fortunately, there are dozens of information portals out on the Web today that give valuable information for new gamblers. However, at the same time, there are also dozens of sites which do not offer gamblers solid information and simply want to get use of their lack of knowledge. To protect players from such dishonest sites, the UK Gambling Commission has prepared something special. It has announced the launch of a new section of their site which takes as its aim to support the beginning gamblers.

Looking for help here, players can be sure they are provided with top quality information.

The UK Gambling Commission was set up to regulate the internet gambling industry and their superior concern is exactly the players safety. The site also details which licensing jurisdictions are most recommended and offers some important tips that you should take into consideration when you start your adventure in the online gambling world.

There’s no way for Tokwiro Enterprises to avoid the sad consequences of the past scandals. And there’s nothing that company can do about the fact that the hot details of the scandals will see a public light very soon. Actually, it is just a matter of days before the popular US show 60 minutes will air the highly anticipated expose on this infamous issue. With great tension, the company is waiting for Saturday, when the special is set to air. However, the truth is that Tokwiro has already started to face pressure from the Washington Post which has begun to release a series of articles that will cover some additional details and information that will be only highlighted in the 60 Minutes special.

The Washington Post collaborated with 60 Minutes on producing and filming the program. It has been closely examining not only Tokwiro, but also the entire online casino gambling industry and now it wants to take advantage of these observations.

In recently released Post article , a lot of interesting details concerning the infamous cases are described , yet special focus is put on the man running it all- Joseph Tokwiro Norton, who is the former Grand Chief of the Kahnawake tribe and is the man at the helm of Tokwiro Enterprises. In the article, particular attention is paid to Norton’s career and its association with the online casino gambling industry and the scandal that would later negatively influence the international industry.