According to various outlets, Darren Woods (pictured), who is known in the industry as DooshCom, has been sentenced to 15 months behind bars for online poker fraud. The UK player was also ordered to return £1 million. However, if he fails to return the money, he'll face another six years in the clinker.
Woods' father was also implicated, as according to the Grimsby Telegraph, "Woods, 29, of Stallingborough Road, denied 13 fraud offenses between January 2007 and January 2012, but partway through a trial, he changed his pleas to guilty on nine of them. His father, Morteza Gharoon, 56, of the same address, admitted a money laundering matter, involving £230,000. Gharoon also admitted possessing cannabis, valued at £246, that was found when his home was searched on November 16, 2011."
Allegations came to light about Woods' transgressions in 2011. Posters on Two Plus Two accused the then-888 Poker pro, PokerStrategy coach, and World Series of Poker bracelet winner of cheating.
Screen names involved included Dingdonk1984 and Salamdolphie and HighStakesDB outlined, "Woods… had been creating multiple accounts at different poker sites online (including his sponsor site 888). He was then posing as two different players in the same game, thus 'colluding' with himself and giving himself a huge edge over his opponents."
"He used other people's identities to play as several people at the same time and also gained extra commission payments above what he would have been allowed to earn if he had been using just his own name," the Telegraph noted.
The same news outlet added, "Woods bought a number of private online networks to disguise his identity and allow him to set up accounts in the names of others. He bought different computers in a bid to fool the companies' security systems… Gharoon helped Woods by allowing his bank account to be used for the transfer of two sums of money totaling £230,000."
Woods originally faced up to 10 years in jail. He won a WSOP bracelet in 2011 in a $2,500 No Limit Hold'em Six-Max event for $213,000 and previously worked as an accountant.
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