The poker giant Full Tilt Poker is being investigated by a federal jury in Manhattan at the moment. The main owners of Full Tilt Poker, Howard Lederer and Chris Ferguson are 2 named persons in the investigation. They are accused of money-laundering and breaking the american gambling laws.
According to Nelson Rose, an author of books on gambling law, the government is trying to make example on Ho[...] Read more » Full Tilt under investigation
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Hello everybody! Yes they want to scare people by doing this. That the U.S. government Incredible that does not respect international laws. See you soon for new posts lol!
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i dont know if this link will work, you can google full tilt manhattan da and get another link to the article.
so, sources say da is investigating full tilt. quite frankly, this would suck but ivey, lederer and feguson, etc. are most likely the best defendants we can get on this issue. bring it on you misguided fuks imo.
Since UIGEA has been challanged by poker communities as being unconstitutional, the government is trying to sway public opinion back into their favor by trying to prove that online sites are criminal. Part of their campaign is to have a high profile case against a well known site. Just wouldn't have the same effect to go after BigBet or Doyle's Room since they are small in comparison to FTP. FTP has also been the most vocale in fighting the legislation so makes sense to go after the loudest critic.
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the us politicans are very crasy last time i read a politican want banned baggy pants.And now banned online poker.But the us had a own gambling city( las vegas).Thats so crasy
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Lots of US players will be pissed if FTP closes their doors to US players. what i can see now is these people from the us might migrate to other countries so that they'll be able to continue playing poker. i know some people who moved from the us to other countries just to be able to play.
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Posted by Im2good4u: Lots of US players will be pissed if FTP closes their doors to US players. what i can see now is these people from the us might migrate to other countries so that they'll be able to continue playing poker. i know some people who moved from the us to other countries just to be able to play.
best place to come for them would be the UK for the tax reasons on gambling that would be good we would get them all on the poker shows here more often doing battle with europe
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I must have been in a new bubble just lately... i didnt know anything about this... Oh well im sure it wont make any difference to FTP they are getting bigger and bigger this news will just add to there fortune im sure. Also it'll bring FTP to the front of the pokernews so they will then get even more players... new sign ups ect. Any publicity is good publicity... or so they say.
Posted by Im2good4u: Lots of US players will be pissed if FTP closes their doors to US players. what i can see now is these people from the us might migrate to other countries so that they'll be able to continue playing poker. i know some people who moved from the us to other countries just to be able to play.
best place to come for them would be the UK for the tax reasons on gambling that would be good we would get them all on the poker shows here more often doing battle with europe
yeah so moveya ass over to here ENGLAND quick........ every1 else does plus we give free money out till the day you die, this is called the dole your new bankroll to blow
and our country always gives out loans no matter what..........................
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I thought youre gonna say full tilt was rigged. Is it? I play heads up on sit&go and i win my first 5 games than i lose 5 games. That a rule. So i just lost the rake (aprox 2$). On losing games i get very good cards before the flop and nothing down, and on winning games i get like 7 2 or 83 and always win.
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ok if the americans are banned from the ftp, then it would be easier to win but the site would be smaller than ipoker and sometimer a dont find enought player at the ipoker network ComeOn That supose to be a free country where id the democracy they talk about does americans really are voting for their laws??? Come on americans do somthing to change ur stupid laws, You cant stop was but come on stop this