Pitbull Poker, Action Poker: The Writing Was On The Wall

The sudden demise of Pitbull Poker and the inability of publicly traded Action Poker to get its act together drives home the point that online poker is no safer than online sports betting.

The later has stabilized for the most part after initial years of fly-by-night operations and sudden closures. 

The online poker community is only now beginning to feel the pain.

In recent months, a handful of rooms have closed their doors.  This week we learned of the sudden shutdown of the questionable operation, Pitbull Poker. 

Action Poker has bid farewell to much of its talented management in recent months while that online poker network averaged a mere 69 real cash players in the past week according to PokerSiteScout.com - dead last.  

Action Poker is run by Ben Johansen out of Norway. Playsafe Holding AS (OTC) is the parent company.

Action Poker is still in business and, last we heard, appear to be venturing into the online casino sector.  Perhaps they will enjoy more success in that realm. 

Jagajeet Chiba, Gambling911.com 

Submitted by Jagajeet Chiba on Wed, 09/30/2009 - 15:42
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Talented management????

Wed, 10/21/2009 - 16:43 — Guest
Talented management???? hahahahahahaaha give me a break! It seems that someone who was fired from that site wrote this note. Probably someone guilty of leaving hundreds of BOS employees without their well deserved liquidation money... who knows...

pitbull

Fri, 10/02/2009 - 09:44 — Guest
pitbull moved to costa rica from england earlier this year. why?, cause there is no regulating body in costa rica for the online gaming industry. I am sorry for anyone who lost money on this scam site but you should have done your due diligence. Your money is gone and you can forget ever getting it back. MOVE ON. I, myself lost 25 dollars and I just have to write it off as a loss. Good luck all. ASAAD

No no - Pitbull were never

Fri, 10/02/2009 - 19:11 — Guest
No no - Pitbull were never in England. This was a lie effected so they could claim to have a UK licence. They have never had anything to do with Dimensus UK, a company which ceased trading at the start of 2008 and had nothing whatsoever to do with online poker. They were always based in Costa Rica but lied about it to gain credibility.

i was also 1 of the few regs

Fri, 10/02/2009 - 06:18 — Guest
i was also 1 of the few regs there. i still have $$$ on my account there. last payout i recieved was on 23-09-09 by moneybookers.

Pitbull

Fri, 10/02/2009 - 04:59 — Palmster
Hey Yan, I'm like you in that I am sad to see pitbull go down. I will miss the $1k guar. I have written off my b-roll there, but will keep the slimmest of hopes. Any ideas on what may happen there? Is there anything players can do? Palmster

dragoo

Fri, 10/02/2009 - 11:19 — Guest
Hello palmster my name is draggo and i have some money i there too i am from costa rica this is my email zamora11cr@yahoo.com we need to all get togeder to do something AKA DRAGOO

PITBULL CASINO PLAYER

Sat, 10/03/2009 - 13:48 — Guest
Hello, Pitbull Casino owes me money also, and I hope something can be done so that we will get our money.

I played there a lot but

Thu, 10/01/2009 - 23:07 — Guest
I played there a lot but realized early on when they ripped me off that they were going to rip everyone else off too. So stuck with the freerolls just for kicks. Here's the kicker: I told people, as many as I could broadcast to, on the site itself, that pitbull was going to rip them off and good luck getting their money out, that it was only a matter of time, that they should look into the ownership of the site, that will tell them everything they need to know about the criminally minded underpinnings. Now those very same players who called me names over and over and over, are now crying about losing money. Cry me a river. Apparently people are smart enough to play poker, but too stupid to realize they are being scammed from the git go.

Pitbull thieves

Thu, 10/01/2009 - 19:54 — Guest
I am one of the 70 or so players that played on the site on a regular basis. Mostly for their $1000.00 gte tournement which rarely attract more then 15 players for $30 buy in. Great value tournments and loose low stake players. The unannouced closure of Pitbull poker is a huge blow not only for me and my bankroll but for the entire online poker community. Until I retrieve all my earnings from pitbull poker, they have stolen from me and I as well as other pitbull players will persist in the full disclosure of the facts surrounding this major mess. Criminals shall be punished. Remember cheaters never wins. Kharma. And we live in a small world. Yan aka: Yantastic

Good Luck

Thu, 10/01/2009 - 22:10 — C Costigan
Online poker is still in its infancy. It's following the same course as online sports betting, but approximately 5 years behind. The online sports betting industry for the most part has stabilized following several years of similar closures of mostly small fly-by-night books. Pitbull I wouldn't call fly-by-night (they've been around long enough) but they were small by today's standards.