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: Mar '08
Location: United Kingdom
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@Greenmohave not just the US but mainly, feel free to come over to the UK and live under our democratic dictatorship Australia are pretty much the same too...mahhh at least we rule the world I guess...Ohh how do you say "im sorry please forgive us" in Chinese...never mind im sure my grankids will teach me...
Joined: Feb '11
Location: Poland
Age: 60 (M)
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Posted by Greenmohave: 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.
I feel very sorry about American poker players but the situation is extremely bad for online players in all countries. The panic is spreading and many non-American players are cashing out of FT and PS to be on the safe side. If the sites will not cope with coming wave of cashouts they might become history. The next couple of weeks will be crucial for these poker rooms. I decided not to cash out in haste and appeal that you do the same.
Joined: Mar '08
Location: United Kingdom
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To be honest, it was allways going to happen, FT and PS gave the US law the big "vs" your govenment could not take that, I did not see them doing it to outher govenments such as the french, no they obayed thier laws and went about setting up a site for them to play on, the US had to act on this crime, yep its a crime, poker has not been made illigal for you to play just regulations put in place. Im actually thinking FT and PS deserve what they are getting, they are greedy and belived they were above the laws.... If I dont like a law for what ever reason, I can not just do what i please, they took a gamble and they lost....heres a song about it...
Joined: Apr '11
Location: Romania
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Posts: 6669
I heard the news first time in the morning. First thing that i did was to check my pokerstars and full tilt poker accounts. There was an software update on both sites that worked out fine and after the installation was complete i was able to acces my account son both poker sites. Once i was in nothing bad happend, i mean all my money were there, i could even withdraw, so all was good. After that i opened a few tables and to my surprise there were actually some us players on the tables, not cash tables but tournaments on full tilt poker. I didn't saw any us player on pokerstars though. I understand now there aren't any us players on full tilt poker either. This situation sucks big time, i hope you can get your money back.
Joined: May '09
Location: India
Age: 37 (M)
Posts: 4873
really sad news for online poker, lots of players gone from poker sites. so they will surely suffer, dnt see any hope of issue being resolved. just wonder who'll be number one / two poker sites now
Joined: Dec '09
Location: United Kingdom
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Posted by B1gfoot: Onyx Cup - cancelled well guess its not to much of a shock, just thinking of the knock on effect, WSOP wont be as busy as last year I guess.
Anouther update - PokerStars update to the guaranteed prizepools.
Nightly Hundred Grand => $70,000 guarantee Nightly Seventy Grand => $30,000 guarantee Wednesday Quarter Million => $100,000 guarantee Sunday Million => $1 million guarantee (down from $1.5 million) Sunday 2nd Chance => $125,000 guarantee (down from $200,000) Sunday 500 => $250,000 guarantee (down from $500,000)
alot of that is wrong b1gfoot the sunday storm old 1/4 mill is down from 300k to 200k and the sunday warm up is down from 750k to 500k
Joined: Apr '09
Location: Portugal
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Posts: 4827
Its in all portuguese tabloids, when i saw it this morning i couldnt believe the names of the poker rooms i was reading, once they are the ones with most credibility among online players. Perhaps this has nothing to do with Pokerstars owners and only involves people who used they acounts to make transfers of huge amounts of money, with excuse of being playing poker.
Joined: Mar '09
Location: Canada
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Posts: 3207
Posted by swolocius: any US players that want to use my account in Fulltilt ( i have 2 there) or pokerstars(3 there) let me know...private message me... i
lol very nice!! lets make multible accounts sell them to the americans so they can have there accounts closed agin..way to rubber in aaaaaa hole
Joined: Feb '10
Location: Finland
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Found out about if few hours ago, as friday was party up time and yesterday spent whole day with my little princess.
Anyways - fkn insane. Havent played at PS for 4 months now i think, had little over 100$ in there..
Thats just crazy lol - weve been here debatting about the full tilt jurisdiction boarders and money loundery once after a while and now it finally all happened... Wonder whats going to happen next:O
