Early last week, British poker professional Darren Woods appeared on the Crown Court in Sheffield, UK, in a lawsuit that alleges the 2011 World Series of Poker bracelet winner committed quite a lot of frauds against online poker rooms and online payment processors.
According to the costs moved against Woods, between 2007 and 2012 the player opened various fake accounts at online poker sites and payment processors to cheat on the tables and make the most of the sites' affiliate programs.
During his hearing in court, Woods plead not guilty to all of the charges moved against him.
Suspects over Woods' poker results and online presence started back in December 2011, when several high-stakes players decided to open a thread at the popular Two Plus Two poker forum to accuse Woods of collusion at 888poker and throughout the iPoker network.
The players believed that Woods — who at the moment was a sponsored pro at 888poker and a well-liked coach at PokerStrategy — operated online with numerous accounts illegally opened using bogus identities.
To prove their accusations, players reported data from a sequence of suspicious online sessions where Woods — who was known online as "Doshcom" — had won millions of bucks at 888' $500/$1,000 short-stack tables in what they deemed to be the results of a collusion with player "Benkaremail" and several players.
Although no specific statement was issued, both PokerStrategy and 888poker decided to chop ties with Woods and freeze his account shortly after the players provided them with the hands history of the games they believed to be irregular.
Fast forward to 2014, when the accusations published on Two Plus Two ended in a lawsuit against Woods for 13 different fraud offenses conducted between the start of 2007 and January 2012.
According to the accusations, Woods worked along with his father, 59-year Iranian native businessman Morteza Gharoon, to create a network of faux accounts and get an unfair advantage on the poker table through collusion.
As the local British newspaper The Grimsby Telegraph reported, the 2 would have managed to avoid the safety measure arrange by rooms and payment processors way to the unauthorized use of real individuals' documents and through the use of different computers for every one of the most accounts.
Together with the accusations of fraud, Woods' father now also faces charges for money laundering through credit billings, on behalf of his son. Through the hearing, Woods' father was reported to have said that he believed to have acted in keeping with the united kingdom regulation as his son reassured him in regards to the legitimacy of his actions.
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