FBI warning on homepages of stars and tilt

[diablodawg]

Checked homepages of tilt and stars and both have there domains frozen by fbi? this could be bad,i tried to withdraw but would not connect to casier,i can register and play but not withdraw,might just be too many peeps thinking the same(hopefully) also ub and absolute poker domains have warnings but who cares about them.

[diablodawg]

CNBC



Three Largest Internet Poker Companies Charged With Fraud, Illegal Gambling - Pokerstars, Full Tilt Poker, & Absolute Poker - Charged 24 minutes ago.


gg all!

[Pokerkitty6]

I wonder if that is my problem at tilt....

[ScareCrowAKA]

---I cant connect to the cashier either

Online gaming companies with U.S. customers, including offshore sportsbooks, are paying close attention to the federal crackdown on major poker sites announced Friday.

"Any U.S.-facing online gaming or betting enterprise is watching this with great interest," Toronto-based gaming attorney Stuart Hoegner told CENSORED late Friday afternoon.

He said it was too soon to gauge the effect on sports wagering.

However, many U.S. residents fund their online poker and sports betting accounts the same way.

Banking transactions are at the heart of the indictments handed down. The government alleges the poker firms used fraudulent methods to circumvent the 2006 Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act, tricking financial institutions into processing payments on their behalf.

The U.S. attorney for the southern district of New York indicted 11 people associated with PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker and Absolute Poker, the three largest online poker companies operating in the United States.

The charges include bank fraud, money laundering and illegal gambling.

"These defendants, knowing full well that their business with US customers and US banks was illegal, tried to stack the deck," FBI assistant director Janice Fedarcyk said in a statement. "They lied to banks about the true nature of their business. Then, some of the defendants found banks willing to flout the law for a fee.

"The defendants bet the house they could continue their scheme, and they lost."

Hoegner told CENSORED the indictments detail specific mechanisms used by the poker companies "to fund their sites and carry on their business, and I don't know if those same mechanisms were in place" at offshore sportsbooks.

"That said, if they were in place, there's nothing conceptually that would bar sportsbooks from being caught up in the same thing."

In addition to the indictments, authorities issued restraining orders against 76 bank accounts in 14 countries used by the firms and their payment processors.

Former Senator Alfonse D’Amato, chairman of the Poker Players Alliance (PPA), the leading poker grassroots advocacy group with more than one million members nationwide, had this reaction to the federal action taken Friday:

“On behalf of the millions of poker players across the country, we are shocked at the action taken by the U.S. Department of Justice today against online poker companies and will continue to fight for Americans’ right to participate in the game they enjoy. Online poker is not a crime and should not be treated as such. We are currently gathering all of the information around today’s announcement and will offer detailed analysis when the full facts become available.”

---This is a article off another site... I censored the domain name, cuz I guess its kind of a rival site to one like this one

[nodepositneeded]

I tried to do a transfer and a deposit the cashier won't work for anything.Looks like I may have to play at bodog this weekend.

[eejit101]

Itll be fixed soon id imagine. Greedy buggers

[Pokerkitty6]

As of now, I am locked out too. Where are we supposed to play online poker now?

[thejuanupsman]

I tried to do a transfer and a deposit the cashier won't work for anything.Looks like I may have to play at bodog this weekend.

Yeah, that's where I am playing. Not my favorite site but I need my fix.

[nodepositneeded]

I just got an email from slotocash saying white label rivals are not going to take any New USA players.I have not confirmed this yet but looks like this event has pushed the panic button for other USA Facing programs.

Judy

[eejit101]

I heard from a British friend at Ladbrokes, that all USA accepting poker sites will be stopping within a month. Rumour, but still, worrying.

Casinos, i have no idea.

Hey, come and stay with me!

[Ringo]

I only play poker in the USA for fun and I have never won any money or cashed in before in my life.

Now that the US are finally cleaning house of all the corrupt offshore pokersites, the real boys are now free to move in.

This is the best news ever!!!!!!!!!!!

US casinos and pokerrooms will start popping up everywhere.

We will see more free games and free money and great promotions, better banking, more security.

We will just have to keep track of our losses and pay taxes on our winnings which will equal about the same as the banking fees I (could) have been paying for all this time.

Somebody needs to make the juice on American gambling, better Uncle Sam than Guido in a basement in Romania.

The NEW Poker Bonanza should be bigger than before.

[Ringo]

I hated FT AP UB and PS
can't wait to get hats and shirts from Belagio Poker room soon to come
Soon their will be big tourneys USA vs the world
like it should be
USA is home to the best athletes, the best poker players, the best minds and just about the best everything in the whole world.
That's why it isn't US vs Australia, no contest. lol

big money making opportunities coming for poker forums as well, just when poker forums were struggling just to pay their server fees.

Word to the wise, don't download any new US poker rooms until NDN offers a new player deal, that way we all win.

[Ringo]

I heard from a British friend at Ladbrokes, that all USA accepting poker sites will be stopping within a month. Rumour, but still, worrying.

Casinos, i have no idea.

Hey, come and stay with me!

LADBROKES? LMAO I know alot of {lads(that are now)broke} becuase of FT PS AP UB

come to England? a foggy damp cold island? I like my 20% humidity in the summer.

[ScareCrowAKA]

a Harrahs online poker room, Pinnacle or Argosy... I would be all over that, A site overseen by a gaming commission, that would actually be afraid of being sued if caught screwing people... Ive been playing a lot at fulltilt the last 3 months or so, the most online poker I have ever played, and I dont care what anyone says, the hands seem to be set up as shlt... I dont even get those kind of bad beat set up bullshlt playing live 35$ tournaments, lol, and those are freaking donkey fests... but we can only dream