Given that Woods has apparently now pleaded guilty to the fraud charges covering the allegations of cheating ITT, no doubt the 888 rep will now be able to say more regarding how they plan to compensate affected players.

http://stevebeasant.mycouncillor.org...raud-offences/

This Humberside police press release is the best account yet:
http://www.humberside.police.uk/news...fraud-offences

This thread gets a mention and a thanks

It's nice to see that our efforts were not futile.

Now it would be great to get a word from someone at 888 if they have plans to refund the affected players.

Any idea how to get in contact with someone there? That Gareth Edwards guy who posted in the thread apparently left the company few years ago.

You may want legal help on this. The cheats assets were frozen by the court, there is a potential claim against Daren, his dad and 888 - what you don't want is Skrill nabbing all the assets or your claim being missed.

Humberside police may be willing to help if you contact them as a victim of this crime. You might need a lawyer to help make a claim against those frozsen assets though, the police should be able to advise. The barrister prosecuting might even offer some free informal advice via email - he may at least be able to tell you who to talk to and refer you to a lawyer more suitable for a civil claim than his (high) bill rate.

Ironic that OP was banned from stars for scummy actions. I hope both woods are jailed for this fraud.

Feruell you still playing high stakes poker online?

Poker News

Darren Woods Faces 10 Years in Prison After Pleading Guilty to Online Poker Fraud Offences

October 27, 2014
The former 888Poker sponsored pro, PokerStrategy coach and World Series of Poker bracelet winner Darren Woods faces a maximum jail term of 10 years, after pleading guilty to fraud offences linked to online gambling.
The case of Darren Woods, 29, and his father Morteza Gharoon, 56, has taken a dramatic twist, after the pair changed tact and pleading guilty to a portion of the charges laid at their doorstep.
Woods has pleaded guilty to nine counts of fraud by false representation, from the original 13 indictments, and his father, Iranian property developer, Gharoon, has pleaded guilty to a money laundering charge of a value not more than £230,000.
The pair has been warming their posteriors in Sheffield Crown Court, after the culmination of a criminal investigation that started back in 2011, by the Humberside Police Economic Crime Unit. Press reports indicate that ‘many well-known gambling companies’ have aided the team, but as of yet only iPoker’s Boylesports, and payment processor Skrill have been named in passing.
Darren’s dodgy dealings first came to light when a reg in the 888Poker and iPoker cash games, started a thread on 2+2 entitled: Allegations that Darren Woods also known, as Dooshcom on 888Poker is a cheater and a scammer. The thread was started by ‘feruell’ and alleged that Woods was guilty of multi-accounting and collusion on both online poker sites, under the names Dooshcom (888Poker) and Dingdonk1984 & Salamdolphie (iPoker).




wow - only took 3 years to solve this.
nice to see that 2+2 still has some muscle in the poker community.

I'm not banned. I play on stars every day.

But its irrelevant to the thread.

There are two superfluous titular words.

was and is are two different meanings but the irony was not lost on myself superfluous maybe,
anyway back to the topic in hand,one can only wonder if they have done this on other networks and how much of this money was funnelled through the fathers property portfolio.

10 years for online poker fraud ? LOL

What makes this different Nicestory?

It's not ''just'' fraud, it is a lot worse.

Nevertheless, 10 years is a lot of time.

He will likely only get 3-4 years and serve half of that.

Not very nice to laugh at his next couple of christmases or were you laughing because it would never happen? That was what some used to say.

i doubt he'll get prison being 1st offence esp if they get most of the money recovered

not sure how you get that from the sentencing guidelines

http://www.cps.gov.uk/legal/s_to_u/s...epresentation/

Wasn't he meant to have been sentenced a few days ago?

Yeah, flimsy case. Yeah, extremely serious arguments. And yeah, they were right. Nice try to poop on their case though. Great job Feruell on not only your victory, but on shutting up all the naysayers you encountered along the way.

Got sentenced this week - 15 months in prison and has to return £1m ($1.6m) to compensate players in the next 6 months or he gets another six years.

From todays news

In a previous article pre-sentencing poor old Dazza tells us all why he was the victim rather than the criminal

Daz was the victim!

Poor old Darren, he only stole a few million dollars off his poker friends, then lied about it, then continued to do it, then pleaded innocent, then pleaded guilty.

I can't believe they are making poor old Darren pay the money back. Bastards eh?

Bye bye


Does anyone know a particular person & e-mail handling this case in 888's end? I mailed support regarding compensation but I would prefer to skip the standard "hola diz is pablo from 888 support we are sorry you are not satisfied with our games"-limbo and cut right to the chase

If you lost a ton of money to his 888 account, what are you supposed to do? How the hell are they going to organize compensation?

Good to see this scumbag caught

Lol.

Big thanks to everyone involved, and especially to jaytorr for the job he did not even being a victim.

We don't have any contacts with 888 management anymore. They guy from 888 who posted in this thread left the company.

But I'll let everyone know if there will be any refund or any developments on this front.

Good work Feruell, Jaytorr & co

Great work........initiated by the OP, happy to see that justice prevailed in the end.....sad to know that young so called "pros", who are good at poker and can actually make lots of money legally are willing to throw away all that for a quick gain

Hi i am new to this thread. I still cant get why he was caught? Was it because he used multiple accounts?