A few days ago the American authorities froze $33 million US dollars in transactions from American poker sites. PokerStars traffic went down with 7% because of this when Full Tilt and Cake Poker's traffic increased instead.
The player traffic at PokerStars decreased with 7% during June due to the trouble with American authorities who froze all transactions from American poker sites. How much mone[...] Read more » American authorities cause problems for PokerStars
Joined: May '09
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Full tilt and Cake poker thank american authorities. I dont understand why American politics see poker like a problem, it should be a bless, they could be winning so much money with taxes, instead they ban online poker from the country.
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Posted by d0ink: I dont understand why American politics see poker like a problem, it should be a bless, they could be winning so much money with taxes, instead they ban online poker from the country.
Yep. Hard to understand. And disappointing for those, who hoped for the new administration to ease things for online poker.
Joined: Apr '09
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This is something i have been questioning myself for a while. In a moment of recession the world is drawn under, poker sytes continue full of big players investing their money in their quality poker and collecting the fruits of that investment. Its being better to play than to buy and sell auctions, thats for sure. In the game, what you do is the guarantee of success, or not...
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Lol i dont understand why americans are reacting like that to poker they can win a lot of money in taxes if they want to. Instead of that they ban online poker room. Ridiculous. Fulltilt for me is better than pokerstars!!!
i mean if they don'T legalisy gambling and poker in the usa ,, and most of the poker stars players are amercian so if they get afraid its sure that the poker lobby at poker stars loses many money but it will be legalisyst soon i bet =)
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Surely there is something wrong with American politicians, banning poker sites and freezing transactions. Thank god rest of countries are not like this But good news for fulltilt and cake as their traffic will increase. cake is a new site and deserves more traffic then its getting now.
