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what? seriously, is this true? anyone from liquidpoker confirm?
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Netherlands45349 Posts
When they hit it , they hit it everywhere O.o. But I suppose that most of these are not paying taxes or something?hence why they are being charged for illegal gambling, the OP is a link to a forum with 2 lines though, so I am not sure whats going on.
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Well that would suck. Hopefully the people that haven't used it in a long time, like myself, won't have the feds come a knocking at their doors. Come to think of it would anyone actually get in trouble? Cause while it's illegal in the US the sites never stopped you and always asked you where you were from so it'd be their problem for helping US people gamble right?
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The websites work for me o_O
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All the sites they reported were up for me as well.
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Works fine for me because I am not in the US.
It is hard to tell what will happen, the companies can just move their hosting out of the US and ban all US residents from playing on their tables. It is really hard to tell if they will actually prosecute any of them because they also run live events in casino's as well which isn't against US gambling laws.
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One of the guys in the forum thread I linked posted this:
DNS propagation is still in progress so it might not show for you. Depends on who your ISP is but it is coming. Look at the name servers for ub.com, absolutepoker.com, pokerstars.com, fulltiltpoker.com ...all the same. And all updated today.
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DOJ press release here - http://www.justice.gov/usao/nys/pressreleases/April11/scheinbergetalindictmentpr.pdf
Lots of people in America still seem to be able to access the sites. DNS propagation takes time. Many international people are already getting the seizure notices. It's not purely a matter of where you are.
Probably too late to cash out anyway. Even if the site processes your command, and even if you get the check in the mail, the accounts have been frozen. The check will probably not clear.
Hope this doesn't affect Team Liquid too badly.
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Canada9720 Posts
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Hopefully this doesn't effect cashing out... Rent's coming up in two weeks... -____-
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Wow, this will get interesting.
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Because U.S. banks and credit card issuers were largely unwilling to process their payments, the Poker Companies allegedly used fraudulent methods to circumvent federal law and trick these institutions into processing payments on their behalf. For example, defendants ISAI SCHEINBERG and PAUL TATE of PokerStars, RAYMOND BITAR and NELSON BURTNICK of Full Tilt Poker, and SCOTT TOM and BRENT BECKLEY of Absolute Poker, arranged for the money received from U.S. gamblers to be disguised as payments to hundreds of non-existent online merchants purporting to sell merchandise such as jewelry and golf balls. Of the billions of dollars in payment transactions that the Poker Companies tricked U.S. banks into processing, approximately one-third or more of the funds went directly to the Poker Companies as revenue through the "rake" charged to players on almost every poker hand played online.
Wow thats some heavy shit o.o'
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On April 16 2011 03:41 AngryLlama wrote:
Hopefully this doesn't effect cashing out... Rent's coming up in two weeks... -____-
In all likelihood the accounts are frozen, which means you're basically screwed.
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On April 16 2011 03:41 AngryLlama wrote:
Hopefully this doesn't effect cashing out... Rent's coming up in two weeks... -____-
Hate to say it but the money is gone. This is going to be huge.
Billions of dollars just evaporated.
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Wtf man so my money is gone!?!? Why does the US care so much if I play poker online  .
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United States185 Posts
Holy shit. Snap-withdrawing... there goes my financial security :/
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It looks like they were putting payments through the system illegally under different names to avoid certain people/banks knowing they were gambling transactions.
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