GPWA Times Magazine - Issue 38 - July 2017

January 2009 Grand Prive Casino Group, Russ Hamilton, Steve Beshear, Spencer Bachus April 2009 Christel Schaldemose, Church of England June 2009 Stephen Conroy, John Kindt September 2009 Southern District of New York January 2010 Australian Senator Nick Xenophon April 2010 Senator Jon Kyl June 2010 National Football League January 2011 WA Senator Margarita Prentice May 2011 Daniel “The Canary” Tzvetkoff September 2011 Bet24 October 2011 The Washington Post February 2012 Sheldon Adelson March 2012 Chris Ferguson, Howard Lederer, Ray Bitar May 2012 Groupe Bernard Tapie February 2013 PokerStars April 2013 Caesars Entertainment June 2013 Isai Scheinberg February 2014 Sheldon Adelson April 2014 Sen. Lindsey Graham July 2014 American Gaming Association October 2014 Newsweek February 2015 CA Assemblyman Mike Gatto June 2015 PokerStars October 2015 GR88, Mojo Affiliates February 2016 Christiaan Alexander Van Dalen February 2017 U.K. Parliament January 2010 Nick Xenophon In December 2009, Australian MP Nick Xenophon said with a straight face that gamblers who lose money online should have a right to ask their bank to void their financial transactions. Cue record scratch. Was this guy serious? Sadly, he was – and he continued to expound the viewpoint that losing players should be able to welch on their bets and cancel transaction after transaction, thereby eroding the whole gambling business. January 2009 Grand Prive The Grand Prive Casino Group has the distinction of being one of our first Wall of Shame inductees. It shut down its affiliate program and eliminated affiliate commissions back in 2008 while keeping its online casinos open for business. Efforts were made by the GPWA and others to work with Grand Prive and get it to make good on its non-payments to affiliates, but that didn’t pan out. Talk about larceny! February 2014 Sheldon Adelson Had enough of this guy yet? Before you say “yes,” let us remind you of one of his more hypocritical diatribes against online gambling. Adelson made waves when he said he’d spend “whatever it takes” to stop online gambling from becoming a widespread reality. He claimed online gambling doesn’t create jobs the way brick-and-mortar casinos do. He said minors could easily access online games – never mind the fact that his company was fined $65K for allowing four underage people to gamble in 2013. And that was back in 2014; we’re sure we’ll see him end up on our Wall of Shame again before too long. Wall of Shame Inductees w w w . g p w a t i m e s . o r g 73