They set it up with a mobile app and bought virtual coins to start games, which they took turns to host daily after their working hours. In a single day in November 2018, they facilitated 29 players in their"All in Poker Club" with a total bet value of S$11,682.Serene Chan Li Shan, 35, Desmond Low Weimin, 36, and 31-year-old Benjamin Ong Jia Wei were each given three months' jail and fined S$20,000 on Tuesday .
A month after they joined the club, the trio suffered losses and decided to exit the club to create their own club.In June 2018, Low registered a new club named"All in Poker Club" using the Pokerrr2 mobile app. All three of the accused were given roles of managers, with access and administrative rights as hosts to invite and grant approval to other account holders to join their club.
They used a WhatsApp chat group to notify players of the games and update them on daily settlement of losses and winnings.Chan was in charge of the settlement, tallying the wins and losses and receiving money from the losers via PayNow. She would transfer the winnings later on via the same method, while the two men took charge of hosting the game and watching to prevent huge losses.
A party of police officers conducted a check on Mar 20, 2019 and arrested Chan at a void deck in Punggol for an offence under the Remote Gambling Act.ILLEGAL GAMBLING TYPICALLY ASSOCIATED WITH OTHER CRIMES: PROSECUTOR Lawyer Sara Ng said a jail term is not warranted in this case, saying the High Court framework has left a possibility of imposing just a fine.
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