The Poker Players Alliance (PPA) has offered its assistance to six professional poker players who are involved in one of the strangest legal cases heard until now.
The players – Tyler “pffinmypurp” Remain, Andy “BKice” Seth, Faraz “The Toilet” Jake, Ravi “govshark2” Raghavan, Mohsin “chicagocards1” Charania and Benjamin “Chong94” Le Few – are being sued by Florida resident, Scott Crespo.
The reason? Just because he can.
Illinois law dictates that anybody in the state can sue the winners of illegal gambling activities for the amount lost. The Illinois Loss Recovery Act is certainly strange in its own way, essentially allowing Crespo to allege that the gambling activities undertaken by the six were illegal and therefore claim three times what the group won.
It should be noted that all six players are regular visitors at top online poker rooms such as Full Tilt and Poker Stars and have won millions in online and offline events.
Crespo, through his lawyer Mark Lavery, contends that not all the money earned by the six ($14 million in online poker and $4.3 million in live events) was done so in a legal manner and therefore he is entitled to claim triple damages – even though he has never sat down at a table with them.
Some of the charges against the six include collusion, cheating, and the use of illegal poker software such as Pocket Aces and Poker Bot Pro.
The PPA said that that it had spoken with all six defendants and had discussed the issue “at the highest levels within the PPA”.
PPA Kentucky director, Rich Muny said that this was something the group took “very seriously”. The group was also offered legal support.
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