This. If there's one thing I've learned it's not to bring a half ass story to these forums. You will get exposed.

from http://www.emediawire.com/releases/2006/1/emw338504.htm




WSOP.COM (World's Standard of Online Poker) launches poker room that gives 51% of corporate net revenues to members.

(PRWEB) January 29, 2006 -- WSOP.COM launched its innovative online poker room on November 3rd 2005. According to Federico Schiavio, Owner of WSOP.COM:

“The Mission of WSOP.COM’s All In Poker room is to offer the best deal to the community of poker players and affiliates on the Internet. WSOP.COM seeks to give all our members an equal opportunity to be rewarded for playing poker and referring their friends. Given that the poker room is exclusively promoted by its members we are able to reward them with 51% of the net revenues that would otherwise be spent on traditional advertising. We have developed a simple multi level relationship marketing program as the basis for rewarding our members.”

Here are the benefits:

1) We are giving 51% of the Net revenues back to members.
2) Only 750 raked hands per month, to earn your entire commission or,
3) Full commission also earned by referring 100 people who play at least 100 raked hands per month, and they can be the same 100 people every time
4) We give you 25% of the commission regardless if you play or refer
5) Members who sign up without an invitation are equally and evenly distributed among existing members so your downline grows by itself.
6) Instantaneous money transfers between members.
7) Free to join.

WSOP.COM is leading the growing group of new challengers to the domination of a small number of top poker sites. WSOP.COM involves all members in the success of the business and enables members to be part of the poker revolution.

For further information please contact Federico Schiavio, Owner, WSOP.COM, +1 310 305 8484, www.wsop.com.

The links below explain our referral program in detail.

E-Movie - http://www.wsop.com/emovie.html
Brochure - http://www.wsop.com/brochure.php
Advantage - www.wsop.com/advantage.php

I don't get the connection to Schiavio. Please explain. I don't think a shared nameserver is enough to go on. I think Schiavio may just be a domain broker/squatter and at some point had something to do with the domain for the pheremones. I don't see a business connection.

http://domain.adrforum.com/domains/decisions/720792.htm

FWIW that is the only other site I have found besides the ones listed above that were hosted on the pherx.com server.
Here is my speculation at the moment:

wsop.com was possibly a joint venture between
Kevin Baronowsky and Federico Schiavio. Mr. Schiavio was the IT director for Binions at one point so had some of the technical expertise needed to create a poker site. Mr. Baronowsky is just good at freakin everything. So they partner up and host things on Mr. B's server.

March 23, 2004 Harrahs initiates legal action against Schiavo over wsop.com.

April 19, 2004, Dimensus ltd is formed.

That is a pretty convenient timeline for this theory. I imagine they knew they would lose the lawsuit eventually so just got a new site going right away.

We know there are probably 2 owners of dimensus, maybe these are the 2.

Any guesses on which of the 2 Dave Brenes really is? I vote for Kevin B.

http://internetpokerplayer.blogspot....ine-poker.html

I were DAve Id start packing my bags quickly.

So does anyone know where one could report stuff like this to the authorities?

in before Dave disappears

That address looks like its a strip mall.

http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&q=...image&resnum=1

for the fun of it i'm gonna drive over there right now and check it out.

I think the IRS and the FBI are the proper agencies.

http://haleyspokerblog.blogspot.com/...rt-vi-not.html

This site gives the full rundown on the harrahs/wsop/schiavio mess.
In part 6, paragraph 8:

"Both included the promotional materials linking to the All In Poker site, even as the current wsop.com front page --- the one condemning Harrah's --- offers a standard affiliate-style link to a different, newer online room, PitBull Poker."




And at the very bottom:

"It once again demonstrates that Schiavio was far, far more than an All In Poker affiliate, "super" or not.

The "LTD" tag, indicating U.K. incorporation, is noted, too. Yes, Schiavio thought out well his plans to keep the wsop.com domain out of Harrah's hands or make its obtainment as expensive as possible. Schiavio worked in Vegas for Becky Behnen and recently operated from California, but one report had him back in his native Italy of late, making the ongoing civil actions that much more difficult for Harrah's. Paul Barnes, All In Poker's chief executive, seems to have relocated as well. Contact information for AIP in these post-UIGEA days now heads to an address in the British Virgin Islands.

A long, strange road indeed. No one can say for sure the ultimate fate of the wsop.com domain or Federico Schiavio's MLM dreams. At this juncture, no one is talking; it's a matter for the lawyers and the courts."

i think this calls for my first ever gay post


[x] this thread delivers

It is also worth noting that in that blog it is mentioned that Schiavio was working on custom poker software for wsop.com. I think we know who to give credit for the amazing pitbull software now.

You may find this helpful in your research:

http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://...tbullpoker.com

http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://allinpoker.com

http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.wsop.com


and the smoking gun:
http://web.archive.org/web/200701212.../www.wsop.com/


WSOP Legal Update

Special Announcement - World’s Standard of Online Poker® is pleased to announce the signing of an exclusive agreement with PitbullPoker.com, who offers a distinctive Online Flash Poker Room with no software download.

updated cliff notes:


History of pitbull poker:

-sometime around 2000 Federico Schiavio, a high level IT employee of Binions,

registered the domain wsop.com
-he began developing custom poker software to launch a poker site on this

domain
-March 23, 2004 Harrahs begins legal action against Mr. Schiavio over the

wsop.com domain
-April 19, 2004 Dimensus Ltd is formed. This is the parent company of

pitbull poker.com.
-WSOP.com under Mr. Shiavio announces an arrangement with pitbull poker.

They begin using the wsop.com website to push pitbull poker.
It appears pitbull uses the custom software written by Mr. Schiavio

originally for the wsop.com poker site he was planning.

There is another interesting person in this story; Kevin Baronowsky.

He is the registrant of the following domains:

pherx.com a pherehormone selling site
pitbullpokr.com(no typo) which redirects to pitbullpoker.com
xardplayer.com(no typo) also redirects to pitbullpoker.com

dsscanuck is a screen name it appears he used on a forum that discusses

illegally accessing satellite television. In a discussion on that thread it

seems that he was busted by a government agency and turned informant.

dsscanuck.com is now a blank website that holds banners for pherx.com and

eczemaderm.com.

eczemaderm.com is a site that sells a steroid cream product and happens to be

hosted on the pherx.com servers.

What puts all this together is that wsop.com was also hosted on the pherx.com

servers.


Recent Cheating Allegations:

-there have been a number of seperate allegations that pitbull poker is

cheating its own customers through the ability to see hole cards
-the players have requested their hand histories in a useable format and

pitbull has refused
-as of today, July 24, 2009, players can no longer access any hand histories

online.

Other interesting facts:

-Dimensus Ltd the parent company of pitbull poker was dissolved, leaving no

apparent owner.
-Dimensus has never held a gaming license, but claims to be located in Costa

Rica where one is not necessary.


Many links to websites supporting the claims in this post can be found at
http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/28...pitbull-poker-

has-superusers-540094/

awesome find! I'm starting a new thread in NVG because i'm pretty sure this thread has become a huge confusing mess to anyone that doesn't want to do lots of research.