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Pokerstars is an online poker site. Pokerstrategy is an educational training site. They are not the same site. The TSL3 is sponsored by pokerstrategy.com.
ChaseR
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
Norway1004 Posts
April 15 2011 18:47 GMT
#21
Piratebay also seems to be down, no idea why oO
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valer0
Profile Joined April 2011
5 Posts
April 15 2011 18:47 GMT
#22
cool. right as i was just starting to get into poker
InEyea
Profile Joined April 2011
Switzerland15 Posts
April 15 2011 18:47 GMT
#23
Hmm, it seems all the Cashier functions are disabled. So no Withdraw possible I want my money ^^
Gatsbi
Profile Joined April 2010
United States1134 Posts
April 15 2011 18:48 GMT
#24
wow. people have thousands (if not tens of thousands) of dollars in there. they are just going to lose all their money? that fucking sucks
"IF WHAT YOU DO NOT KNOW IS MORE THAN WHAT YOU HAVE KNOWN. THEN YOU HAVE NOT KNOWN ANYTHINIG YET." - Rev Kojo Smith
nalgene
Profile Joined October 2010
Canada2153 Posts
April 15 2011 18:48 GMT
#25
Those ads they have on a bunch of sites... will they take those down too? It's like from those poker sites ( jtv has them occasionally )
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Nyx
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Rwanda460 Posts
April 15 2011 18:48 GMT
#26
So poker strategy sticking out of the US was really good for them in the end?

But does it matter now that their biggest customers are gone?
LittlefOOt
Profile Joined July 2010
England29 Posts
April 15 2011 18:49 GMT
#27
How does this affect people who play from Europe?
Hall0wed
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
United States8486 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-04-15 18:50:12
April 15 2011 18:49 GMT
#28
That USAtoday link confuses me. I kinda skimmed it but it doesn't say anything in there about poker websites getting shut down I think, what am I missing?
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TheMusiC
Profile Joined January 2004
United States1054 Posts
April 15 2011 18:50 GMT
#29
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/doj-indicts-founders-of-top-us-online-poker-sites-2011-04-15-1358350?link=MW_latest_news

only article i've found so far. it was a breaking news headline on reuters for a bit, but that has since changed
InEyea
Profile Joined April 2011
Switzerland15 Posts
April 15 2011 18:50 GMT
#30
Im from Switzerland. And as far as i can see, it affects us too. The PStars Client still works but you cant do anything Accountmanagment related.
Modafinil
Profile Joined May 2010
United States35 Posts
April 15 2011 18:50 GMT
#31
On April 16 2011 03:49 LittlefOOt wrote:
How does this affect people who play from Europe?


Your money is gone and the site will be inaccessible as soon as the DNS re-propagates.
jalstar
Profile Blog Joined September 2009
United States8198 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-04-15 18:54:11
April 15 2011 18:53 GMT
#32
cool, an excuse to play more sc2

i only have $50 on PS anyway, hopefully my $200 withdrawal echeck from last week clears though.
Nyx
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Rwanda460 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-04-15 18:54:44
April 15 2011 18:54 GMT
#33
On April 16 2011 03:53 jalstar wrote:
i only have $50 on PS anyway, hopefully my $200 withdrawal echeck from last week clears though.


Restraining orders were issued against more than 75 bank accounts used by the poker companies and their payment processors, while five Internet domain names used by the companies to host poker games were seized, federal authorities added in a statement.

Ssoulle
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
United Kingdom149 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-04-15 18:56:44
April 15 2011 18:55 GMT
#34
They aren't cracking down on online poker, certain sites just broke some Act passed in America in 2006 by labelling gambling transactions as something else to get banks to accept the payments. They have brought charges against people outside the US [ like Isle of Man ]. US banks were heavily involved so they decided to step in.
O.o
rabidch
Profile Joined January 2010
United States20289 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-04-15 18:56:06
April 15 2011 18:55 GMT
#35
On April 16 2011 03:47 ChaseR wrote:
Piratebay also seems to be down, no idea why oO

Not related to OP:
http://torrentfreak.com/the-pirate-bay-is-down-awol-110414/

Related to OP:
Lots of alleged fraud and money launder on the scale of billions so its quite serious
LiquidDota StaffOnly a true king can play the King.
Klipsys
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States1533 Posts
April 15 2011 18:56 GMT
#36
I thought most of these servers were hosted in other countries?
Hudson Valley Progamer
where
Profile Joined February 2011
144 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-04-15 19:01:24
April 15 2011 18:56 GMT
#37
oh what the fuck is this. The government is that desperate for money that they are trying to steal from online gambling sites?
What about those mortgage backed securities, CDOs and those other institutionalized gambling forms? Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, AIG too difficult of targets? Do we really need an online gaming lobby?

"How a big US bank laundered billions from Mexico's murderous drug gangs"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/apr/03/us-bank-mexico-drug-gangs
Is Wachovia "too profitable to fail"? Or is it because the drug cartels have organized weaponry and might fight back, unlike online poker players?
Kralic
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
Canada2628 Posts
April 15 2011 18:56 GMT
#38
Well this is one way for the US government to pay off some debt.
Brood War forever!
InEyea
Profile Joined April 2011
Switzerland15 Posts
April 15 2011 18:57 GMT
#39
On April 16 2011 03:53 jalstar wrote:
cool, an excuse to play more sc2

i only have $50 on PS anyway, hopefully my $200 withdrawal echeck from last week clears though.


I have about 200$ on PS, damn that would cover 2 Years GSL Permium
jalstar
Profile Blog Joined September 2009
United States8198 Posts
April 15 2011 18:58 GMT
#40
On April 16 2011 03:54 Nyx wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 16 2011 03:53 jalstar wrote:
i only have $50 on PS anyway, hopefully my $200 withdrawal echeck from last week clears though.


Show nested quote +
Restraining orders were issued against more than 75 bank accounts used by the poker companies and their payment processors, while five Internet domain names used by the companies to host poker games were seized, federal authorities added in a statement.



well -$250 sucks a lot but there are some people with thousands on there, this is huge.
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