Russ Hamilton The Most Hated Man in Online Poker?

Feb 7 2009 - 10:36pm
Russ Hamilton

Following WickedChopsPoker (WCP) Raw Vegas exclusive video interview with online poker cheat and one time World Series of Poker main event winner, Russ Hamilton, the backlash has been fast and furious - not to mention expected.

"I seriously hope this mother ****er dies a long, slow, painful death," posted one member of the Never Win Poker Forum.  "How can he seriously not even say a word to defend himself?  He truly must not understand how guilty this makes him look."

Some of the anger was also lodged towards poker pro Layne Flack, who apparently has little problem remaining buddies with Hamilton.

"It infuriates me that he has no words!" commented one angry reader of the Pokerati website. "Can't even defend himself... And Layne, hanging out on the course with an alleged criminal (one who has yet to even attempt to clear his own name), ducking from the cameras. Nice. Degeneracy at its finest."

Hamilton was profiled on 60 Minutes this fall for his role in an insider online poker scandal involving the popular card room, UltimateBet.com

But not everyone was so down on Hamilton for his failure to comment on the cheating scandal.

Another reader of the Pokerati website had this to say:

"For several months, Russ Hamilton hasn't given any comment on the UB scandal. So Raw Vegas ambushed him at a country club and took video of him ... not giving any comment on the UB scandal. How does this qualify as anything even remotely newsworthy?

"If your lawyers tell you to be silent, you stay silent. And any lawyer (or interrogator) will tell you that pure silence is so much more effective than saying, "No comment." Any engagement at all on your part is -EV. The U.S. Bill of Rights Clearly States That Silence ≠ Guilt."

Christopher Costigan, Gambling911.com Publisher

Submitted by C Costigan on Fri, 02/06/2009 - 22:26
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what a joke

Sat, 02/07/2009 - 15:46 — Guest
What makes me laugh most is the flip flopping on the views of the KGC. Are they golden or liars people? Everyone believes 100% that this 'legal upstanding governing site' is correct that Russ did it all. He is the name. Yet, they won't relaese the 88 superuser names. HMMMM. They won't give out hand histories to the players that received refunds. HMMMM So they know so and so should have received $2,000 but can't give him the hand histories they used TO FIGURE OUT THAT AMOUNT?????? And how super sleuths, does Mr Hamilton prove his innocence? Saying 'wasn't me" ends up in a bunch of 'yeah right' replies, UB/Kanawake won't provide things they say they will. How does an indian chief afford a 100+ million dollar company anyway??? I'm not saying Russ is innocent, we may never know. But to damn a person based on this flimsy evidence coming from a company that is clearly shady seems a bit ironic to me.