Counter Strike GO betting drama (Lawsuits filed!)

[iliketurtles]

Tmartn is a fukkin fakkit, hope he gets locked up

 

[itsyoung!!]

he deleted the video

 

[Kingshango]

This dude just keeps on digging.

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

Whole video is basically this

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

he deleted the video

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

ESPORTS LAWYERS DID AN AMA...they're fukked:

We are Bryce Blum, Ryan Morrison, and Jeff Ifrah – three lawyers that work extensively in the esports industry – and we’re here to talk about gambling in esports. AUA! • /r/GlobalOffensive

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

 

[cartierhoe]

This nikka really deleted the video


Why even make one then if you just gon backtrack

 

[Johnny Tightlips]

what a sleezy greedy motherfukker he doesnt give a fukk about all the kids he fukked for money.. I hope they fine his ass and put him behind bars so we can make sure he really IS sorry... pos

 

[WhatsGoodTy]

Gg

 

[scarlxrd]

shyt gets funnier by the day

 

[cartierhoe]

shyt gets funnier by the day

Right?

 

[scarlxrd]

First round of lawsuits filed now -- CSGO Lotto and owners sued over ‘illegal gambling’ allegations

esterday Trevor "Tmartn" Martin was snuggling with his dog and apologizing in a YouTube video about his CSGO Lotto ownership; today, he, the gambling site and his business partner are being sued.

In an amended complaint filed today in the Southern District of Florida, CSGO Lotto, Martin and Thomas Cassell have been added to one of two complaints filed against Valve Corporation in the past few weeks.

We’ve reached out to Cassell and Martin and will update this story when they respond.

In the suit, which was filed by an anonymous parent on behalf of their child, Valve is accused of deliberately allowing the creation of a market where players and third-parties trade weapon skins like casino chips. The lawsuits accuse Valve and third-party sites like CSGO Diamonds, CSGO Lounge and CSGO Lotto of allowing millions of Americans to link their individual Steam accounts to websites that allow players to gamble with their CS: GO weapon skins.



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CSGO Lotto is among third-party sites that allow players to place bets on various casino-style games, lotteries, jackpots and other games withCounter-Strike: Global Offensive skins, according to the lawsuit.

Martin and Cassell are the owners of Lotto, according to the site and "they actively promote Lotto as a gambling service, including to minors."

In his video apology yesterday, Martin said that his connection to the site has been a matter of public record since the company was formed in 2015, though some refute that.

He also said that he "does not condone minors under the age of 18 to use CSGO Lotto." Unlike other Counter-Strike betting sites that do allow minors to place bets online, CSGOLotto only allows legal adults to gamble. "This is and always has been a clearly stated policy available in both the terms of service as well as the initial signup page on the website," Martin said.

The defendant and Martin are both in Florida, according to the suit, and CSGO Lotto is incorporated in Florida.

 

[Kingshango]

Valve is shutting down all gambling sites.

News - In-Game Item Trading Update

In 2011, we added a feature to Steam that enabled users to trade in-game items as a way to make it easier for people to get the items they wanted in games featuring in-game economies.

Since then a number of gambling sites started leveraging the Steam trading system, and there’s been some false assumptions about our involvement with these sites. We’d like to clarify that we have no business relationships with any of these sites. We have never received any revenue from them. And Steam does not have a system for turning in-game items into real world currency.

These sites have basically pieced together their operations in two-part fashion. First, they are using the OpenID API as a way for users to prove ownership of their Steam accounts and items. Any other information they obtain about a user's Steam account is either manually disclosed by the user or obtained from the user’s Steam Community profile (when the user has chosen to make their profile public). Second, they create automated Steam accounts that make the same web calls as individual Steam users.

Using the OpenID API and making the same web calls as Steam users to run a gambling business is not allowed by our API nor our user agreements. We are going to start sending notices to these sites requesting they cease operations through Steam, and further pursue the matter as necessary. Users should probably consider this information as they manage their in-game item inventory and trade activity.

-Erik Johnson