Gambling commission is cracking down on Valve over third-party skin gambling sites

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The Washington State Gambling Commission has set its sights on Valve over the proliferation of third-party sites using Steam's skin-trading system as a method of facilitating gambling.
The skin gambling racket has been a profitable business in recent years, though many sites running such operations have seemed shady. To wit: earlier this year the folks who ran skin gambling site CS:GO Lotto, Trevor "Tmartn" Martin and Tom "Syndicate" Cassell, were outed as dishonestly promoting the site they operated while pretending to be unaffiliated lucky winners.
Furthermore, YouTuber Lewis "PsiSyndicate" Stewart confessed to being paid by skin gambling site Steam Lotto to pretend that he won a bet, when in fact his winnings were staged.
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