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Former WSOP Champ Named in Cheating Scandal

By launchpoker, Oct 4, 2008 Russ Hamilton

While the specific evidence has yet to be forthcoming, Russ Hamilton has been named as a party in the cheating scandal that has involved online poker room UltimateBet. Hamilton won the 1994 World Series of Poker main event, which paid him a prize of $1 million. In addition that was the only year the WSOP paid the winner his weight in silver. Hamilton is named in a scheme that is estimated to have stolen more than $6 million from players at the online poker room by the Kahnawake Gaming Commission, which said they found clear evidence implicating Hamilton.