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POKER PLAYING ADMIRAL DEMOTED (Update)
2013-10-11

Vice-Admiral Tim Giardina, the high-ranking US Strategic Command naval officer caught up in a casino counterfeit chip investigation in Iowa (see previous InfoPowa reports) is paying a heavy price for his poker playing penchant; he may have escaped civilian censure, but the parallel investigation by the Naval Criminal Investigative Service has seen him suspended from his sensitive nuclear duties and reassigned to the Naval Staff.
On Wednesday Giardina also suffered the indignity of being demoted a rank, according to Navy spokesman Rear Admiral John Kirby, who said that Giardina will drop in rank to two-star admiral.
The fact that the admiral has not been required to resign, and that civilian charges have not been laid against him, suggests that his involvement in the Iowa affair was probably peripheral at worst, but details on the probe are scarce.

TRIO WINS GOLD AT WORLD SERIES OF POKER
2013-06-21

The last twenty-four hours at Apuestas Deportivas Golf Betting Online Bingo Madden Betting Pandemonia the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas has seen two players claim bracelets for the second time, and one his first piece of WSOP jewellery.

Erick Lindgren shook off his recent troubles to show that he is a force to be reckoned with in international poker, winning his second bracelet in event 32: $5,000 buy-in Six Handed No-Limit Hold'em after surviving an entry field of 515 and a final table that included respected stars like Jonathan Little, Ryan D'Angelo and Lee Markholt.

Lindgren started final table action as chip leader and dominated much of the action until the heads up with Markholt was reached.

Despite holding a 4 to 1 advantage going into the heads up, Lindgren had his hands full with a tough and determined Markholt, who not only closed the gap, but at one point actually stole the lead in the almost two-hour confrontation.

Lindgren came back big-time, however to eliminate his opponent and send him to the cashier's cage for a second prize of $374,960, reserving the main prize of $606,317...and that second bracelet...for himself.

The other four final table players didn't do too badly either:

3 Jonathan Little $238,833
4 Connor Drinan $157,274
5 Vasile Buboi $106,830
6 Ryan D'Angelo $74,768

Bryan Campanello - a 21-year-old American pro - acquired his first WSOP bracelet in event 33: $2,500 buy-in Seven-Card Razz. With several World Series of Poker Circuit cashes to his credit, the young pro faced an entry field of 300 other players which generated a prize pool of $684,775; that enabled 32 players to cash.

By the time the field had been distilled to a final table Campanello faced some experienced poker talent across the felt that included David Bach, Jim Wheatley, Sebastian Pauli, Ivan Schertzer, Brent Keller, Rick Fuller and Ismael Bojang.

That quickly reduced to four players, where the action continued for around three hours before the heads up was set, pitting Campanello against David 'The Gunslinger' Bach, with Campanello holding a massive chip lead.

Despite an heroic effort, Bach could not gain enough traction to overcome his chip deficiency and he was bundled out of the event in second place for $110,098, leaving Campanello with his first bracelet and $178,052 in first prize money.

Erick Lindgren was not the only player to claim a second WSOP bracelet Thursday; 24-year-old Belgian pro Michael Gathy celebrated his second gold in event 34: $1,000 buy-in Turbo No-Limit Hold'em.

The bracelet came with a useful $278,613 main prize after Gathy bested a field of 1,628, a hard-charging final table that included Brit pro Jake Cody and an intense heads up.

Cody was the chip leader when the final table was reached, and there were a few bets that he would claim his second bracelet in the event. Seated around the table with Cody and Gathy was an international crew that included Benjamin Reason, Yueqi Zhu, Sergey Rybachenko, Daniel Bishop, Jason Duval, Noah Vaillancourt and Russell Crane.

In the event, Cody simply did not shape, and was eliminated in seventh place, to the disappointment of his large and noisy band of rail supporters.

When Yueqi Zhu exited in third place, it was Gathy facing Benjamin Reason in the heads up.

Reason is an interesting player who has comparatively recently moved into live tournament action after making a name for himself in the online environment. The same age as medical doctor Gathy, Reason hails from the USA and holds a degree in music education, although he now plays poker professionally.

The heads up lasted 17 hands and saw Gathy emerge the winner, although Reason could still claim his biggest yet live tournament pay-day of $172,252.

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ONLINE POKER SOFTWARE FIRM FIXING SECURITY ISSUE (Update)
2013-04-16

The Malta-based poker software developer B3W has reacted quickly to claims by online security company ReVuln that its software has some vulnerability (see previous InfoPowa report).
Over the weekend a company spokesman told the IDG news service that work has already commenced on the root problem pointed out in a report released last week by Luigi Auriemma and Donato Ferrante of ReVuln, a vulnerability research consultancy also based in Malta.
ReVuln's report, which also looked at products from major companies like Microgaming and Playtech, focused on poker software and the downloaded client.
AJ Thompson, B3W's director of strategy, assured IDG that players using its software have not been hacked in 12 years of operating online.
The researchers found that B3W's software updates itself over an insecure HTTP connection. Updated files are stored without digital signatures, and ".exe" files are not verified before installation. They also found issues with how B3W's software stores passwords on a person's computer.
"The industry standard for distributing new poker clients is through content delivery networks," Thompson told the news service. "B3W uses a CDN from Fileburst.
"Using a secure connection with Fileburst is possible, but the digitally-signed security certificate would not match that of the software that is delivered," he said.
However, B3W has found a solution in order to deliver secure updates.
"We have decided to move all client updating to our own data centers over SSL using a signed certificate trusted by the poker client code," Thompson revealed.
"The changes will eliminate three issues outlined by ReVuln, including those around executing an unverified file, a directory transversal issue and a stack-based buffer overflow.
"B3W hasn't decided how to handle passwords that are saved by the poker client. Passwords that are not stored by a password key chain can only be obfuscated, and to create a password for a password would be less convenient for players," Thompson said.
"We do have a build of a client which does not allow the saving of the password, and we are considering the introduction of this to the core client build."
Late last year B3W signed an agreement with NYX Interactive AB to launch NYX OGS games within its casino gaming suite.