Twitch Shuts Down Phantoml0rd Channel After Allegations of CSGOShuffle Odds Rigging

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Jul/19/2016

The popular social media video streaming website Twitch has shut down a channel belonging to eSports star James Varga (aka Phantom0rd) amidst allegations he had undisclosed ownership interest in CS:GO online gambling skin CSGO Shuffle and regularly rigged the odds in his favor.

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Richard Lewis of the DailyDot combed through some 1800 hacked Skype messages between Varga and CSGO Shuffle coder Duhau Joris whereby the two appeared to be involved in a conspiracy to rig the site.

Twitch recently confirmed it would no longer permit Gambling websites that utilized Steam’s OpenID API, stating this was a breach of their Terms of Service.

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