ATTAN U. S. ATTORNEY CHARGES PRINCIPALS OF THREE LARGEST INTERNET POKER COMPANIES WITH BANK FRAUD, ILLEGAL GAMBLING OFFENSES AND LAUNDERING BILLIONS IN ILLEGAL GAMBLING PROCEEDS.
On Friday, the founds of online poker's "Big Three" was indicted by federal authorities. The founders of PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker and Absolute Poker were indicted on charges of bank fraud, money laundering and illegal[...] Read more » Updated 19.19GMT - PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker & Absolute indicted !
Joined: May '08
Location: Germany
Age: 59 (M)
Posts: 6786
I see only two possible options. Either online poker is dead in the US, or there will be some form of regulation. As the US goverment needs money desperaidly, i hope for the later.
Joined: Feb '11
Location: Canada
Age: 57 (M)
Posts: 753
See this is the whole problem. The US gov is desperate for cash. Online poker is revenue they need to fuel their war machine. Get used to it, this is just the beginning. After all, the US gov still claims that they OWN the internet.
Joined: Apr '11
Location: United States
Age: 50 (M)
Posts: 7
I'm so sick of this f**king country, united states, i work my ass off and they tax me i lose my job and they dont help me they tax the money i put into the poker sites and they wanna tax again? this is fking b******t, i dont ask for a handout i make money playing poker online and cuz some stupid f**kheads screw up the budget they have to tax the poker sites and claim gambling is bad, really? i can go to pechanga and lose all my money or lose it all in any cardroom in L.A. or go to vegas this is a f**king sham and i am sick of paying taxes just to get f**ked like this, i am so f**king done i thought the government is there to serve the people, b******t! this is a dictatorship and our government is nothing more than thugs and thieves im done following the law or paying taxes they can all go f**k themselves, thanx for stealing my dream obama!
Joined: Mar '11
Location: Netherlands
Age: 35 (M)
Posts: 17
any US players that want to use my account in Fulltilt ( i have 2 there) or pokerstars let me know...private message me... if not i strongly suggest you to cash out asap!
Joined: Sep '10
Location: Romania
Age: 44 (M)
Posts: 104
hm bad news but i see her a big winner how can say business as usual is partypoker they sure dont have problems with cash out or cash in and for the us player wat can i say just sorry guys thats al your guilt with your stupid money hungry politicians
Joined: Mar '08
Location: United Kingdom
Age: 44 (M)
Posts: 6714
We all knew it was going to happen sooner or later, I feel sorry for those in the US, told every day in every speach in every movie and by all govenores etc etc about the american dream, lady took a big fall today. $3 billion is all they ask for...
BTW im going to be playing lots of tourns in the next few days, lots of overlays ATM.
Joined: Feb '11
Location: Romania
Age: 47 (M)
Posts: 8
it makes me question the integrity of full pokerstars.....what would stop them from fraudulent acts toward depositors????? many times i had that feeling of stealing like that casino sites gen PKR were on the roulette u can se clearly the steal
Joined: May '09
Location: United States
Age: 80 (M)
Posts: 1
the us econamy just got boost now all americans have more money to buy gas and food and luxuary idems because they cant play and loose there money on poker sites
Joined: Mar '11
Location: United Kingdom
Age: 38 (M)
Posts: 16
Some of us have a life sorry for not being up to date this is shocking! what about everybody founds how will we recover them full tilt was the only site i liked to play so i am truly devastated about this will it be taken over or is this the end for fulltilt as we know it
Joined: Mar '08
Location: United Kingdom
Age: 44 (M)
Posts: 6714
Posted by fulltilt130: Some of us have a life sorry for not being up to date this is shocking! what about everybody founds how will we recover them full tilt was the only site i liked to play so i am truly devastated about this will it be taken over or is this the end for fulltilt as we know it
Joined: Feb '11
Location: United States
Age: 65 (F)
Posts: 18
we are all mad but there is not much we can do.... at least not that i know of.. i am sure they will keep all my money now, i didn't have enough to cash out
Joined: Jan '11
Location: United States
Age: 60 (M)
Posts: 3361
Yes! The mighty U.S. where freedom is B.S. I've worked and paid taxes since I was 12 years old starting with a paper route and have worked all these years and paid for what freedom. Freedom for the U.S. to tell me what I can do or can't do. No real freedom here. When I can't play poker without the governments approval then we all know what the word freedom is in the U.S. It's a line of B.S. in which I'm sick of. The U.S. intervenes in every countries business and wants to dictate how the world should be ran. Up yours U.S.! Tired of your definition of freedom.
