Faced with a multitude of charges regarding online gambling fraud and collusion, 2011 World Series of Poker bracelet winner Darren Woods (pictured) opted to plead guilty to nine counts.

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According to the Grimsby Telegraph, Woods, who was charged in the British legal system with 13 counts of fraud resulting from online gambling and poker, was in the middle of the trial when he and his attorneys shifted course. Rather than taking a chance with a 12-member jury, Woods decided to plead guilty to nine of the 13 counts of online fraud he was facing. The other four counts were deemed not guilty and dismissed from the proceedings.

The case stems from actions that Woods took regarding online accounts with several different bookmaking and online poker sites beginning in 2007. Through purchasing other peoples’ identities, their computers, and intricate internet service provider routing, Woods created multiple accounts in cohorts with his father, Mortenza Gharoon, to circumvent the elaborate security systems employed by online gaming sites.

Not only did Woods do this, he also sent these accounts through an affiliate program he created with 888 Poker. In essence, this allowed him to earn money twice through nefarious means.

Once Woods had achieved this goal, he then would sit at high-stakes online poker tables and, using the multiple accounts, have a significant advantage over his opponents. It was estimated by prosecutors that while Woods was working the $500/$1,000 virtual felt under his screen name Dooshcomand the various accounts he had created, hundreds of thousands of dollars changed hands to Woods’ pocket.

The list of online gaming and poker sites that might have been affected by Woods’ scam features some of the bigger names in the industry. Woods utilized such sites as Moneybookers (now Skrill), 888 Poker, and the iPoker Network to funnel his scam and seemed to keep it active for almost four years. It wasn’t until 2011 that the poker community began to examine the action on the tables, which prodded law enforcement into action.

The Two Plus Two forums were the first to broach the possibility that something was amiss. Back in 2011, Two Plus Two poster feruell, using information culled from the high-stakes online poker community, brought on the allegations that Woods may have been multi-accounting. While he admitted he aided Woods with money exchanges between different sites, feruell also noted that Woods was showing extraordinary success, taking down as much as $300,000 in a few days’ span.

Perhaps the most stunning evidence of misdoing by Woods from feruell was a chart that was eerily similar to the Absolute Poker scandal. Demonstrating the frequency of play between certain accounts and their performance, feruell was able to show a massively better-than-average win rate, indicating collusion and defrauding the players that were expecting a clean game.

It isn’t as if Woods was an unsuccessful player looking to take an illegal edge. He started playing at the WSOP in 2007, cashing in the Main Event, and earned nine career WSOP cashes and a bracelet in 2011 in a $2,500 Six-Handed Limit Hold’em event. All totaled, Woods has earned nearly a half-million dollars in a seven-year span, according to the Hendon Mob database. Interestingly, this poker success came after Woods filed for bankruptcy in 2006.

It is unknown at this point what the sentence will be for Woods and his father. The new gaming regulations in the United Kingdom, the UK Gambling, Licensing, and Advertising Act of 2014, will take effect in November, but since Woods’ crimes were committed before that Act was passed, he might not be eligible to be punished as heavily as possible. If the new gaming Act in the UK is used in determining Woods’ punishment, he could face up to 10 years in prison and massive fines for his fraudulent activities.

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