I don’t want to hurt the feelings of the many loving pit bull owners out there, but from a media stereotype perspective, pit bulls are surrounded by the stigma of being owned and “appreciated” by some pretty rough characters. So, unless the site’s name is a reference to dogs playing poker, when it comes to steering clear of online poker sites, you don’t have to tell me twice to stay away from Pitbull online poker.

Pitbull aggressively sought to bring in customers by offering an unprecedented $10 to anybody who would sign up for an Pitbull poker account! Their flash-based gaming platform made gambling online with Pitbull convenient since players don’t have to download software and can play anywhere they can find an internet connection. But that’s about the only two good things I’ve heard about them.

Allegations are circulating like water in a flushing toilet bowl that Pitbull poker is up to no good. Suspicions have arisen from players that the site uses programmed bots sitting in at tables and the presence of superusers, able to see other players’ hole cards.

Player requests for hand histories, a common practice available on any trustworthy site, have been continually refused. As of July 24, 2009, hand histories are not available online. Dimensus Ltd, the parent company of Pitbull Poker has been dissolved as of March 10,2009 with no clear owner and never appears to have held a gaming license. Though they claimed they were based in Costa Rica, Pitbull had falsely represented themselves as a UK based online gaming company in the past.

As if that weren’t enough to make players who like money steer clear in favor of more reputable online casinos, one irate customer researched the folks at Pitbull and found out some pretty shady stuff. In March of 2004, Harrahs took legal action against Federico Schiavio for registering the domain wsop.com to launch his own online poker site. A scam artist named Kevin Baronowsky, who registered several domains selling things like pheromones and steroid cream, which redirect to Pitbull poker, was linked to forums that discuss illegally accessing satellite television. Later, he was arrested by a government agency for selling illegal equipment and ratted out his customers.

Since these accusations have come to light, more and more former online customers of Pitbull poker have come forward with accounts of seeing questionable happenings at their tables.

Tags: Criminal, Pitbull

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