In Response to Re: DOJ indicts U.S. poker sites : Nice find MrWhite. Up tp 30 years for bank/wire fraud. I would say this could be pretty serious. Posted by FlyingDagg
A guy posted it on my other forum, but yes, it looks very serious.
This has got to be great news for sky??? And really bad news for winning players who play here !!!!!!!! Posted by DOHHHHHHH
Isn't this site only open to U.K. residents? I also have an account at Titan and I know U.S citzens are banned there. Late edit. Sorry dohhhhhh I reaslised after posting that you are referring to U.K.players?
I'm no legal expert by any means but I know that online poker has been illegal in the states since 2006, since they deemed it a game of luck and not skill, but does anyone know why they took so long to act on it?
Noticed that SKYPoker now advertising on 2 plus 2 forum, good timing or what. Posted by 68Trebor
lol i noticed that a couple of months ago thats why all of a sudden a lot of new players were appearing i do believe .
just signed in on full tilt a lot of the american nosebleed players eg. twoSHAE are looking to just do flips cause they know they are never going to be able to withdraw.
wouldn't their best option be to transfer to someone in the uk who can then withdraw it ?
Reuters News Content . NEW YORK, April 15 (Reuters) - The owners of three of the largest Internet poker companies operating in the United States were accused on Friday of tricking regulators and banks into processing billionsYES of dollars of illegal Internet gambling proceeds. Eleven people including the owners of Full Tilt Poker, Absolute Poker and PokerStars were charged with violating U.S. anti-Internet gambling laws, according to charges filed by federal prosecutors in Manhattan. The charges are part of a crackdown on Internet gambling in the United States, where it has been illegal since 2006. In March, Wynn Resorts Ltd said that it had entered into a partnership with PokerStars, and that they would work for passage of U.S. legislation that would define illegal Internet gambling. (Reporting by Basil Katz) Posted by IRISHROVER
YES YES YES FUING YES YES DOES THIS MEAN WE ALL GET REFUNDS?? I PLAYED ON ALL THESE SITES .....BOOM I KNEW THE HAMMER WOULD DROP SOON ENOUGH AND THERES YOU PEOPLE OUT THERE THINK IM CRAZY!!!!!
I RECKON IM DUE FOR AN APOLOGY OFF OF SOME VARIOUS PEOPLE ,ESPICALLY SOME TOP NAMED PLAYERS IN THE USA WHO THINK THEY KNOW EVERYTHING..!!! GONNA BE WRITING A BOOK SOOON I CAN TELL YOU THAT MUCH,...... WATXH THIS SPACE,,
I hope they dont shut down my fulltilt and pokerstars accounts they are the only ones i got left lol!!!
on a side note i agree with pod1 hes spot on here by the way ,but theres a more complicated issue than all of it put together...
and im not getting into no-more arguments with no-one,so dont even bother giving me no xxxx.!!
the dept of justice and the fbi will no doubtably be claiming back taxes and past due revnues off all those sites for violations, they will end up being registered again at a latter date i feel under a new body of government,!!
whoever investigated absolute poker tell them to look into my hand history files please ,I have got them all saved as with all my other info on a stored harddrive, imo!!
they usualy go after the people that have money ,so as in my case we know thats prolly not going to happen with me since I dont have any lol! still a birthday card or a xmas card from half those sites that i continually lost on would be a bonus.
I just hope Annie duke and Phil helmuth will grant me my apology when it comes out that I wasnt lying and just because I wasnt in thier calibre of class doesnt mean I dont know how to play poker!
Sometimes i did wonder why named player (willys) on fulltilt beat me with runner runner in ftops main event 3 years ago....I think now i realise he had at least a 10% chance of winnning AFTER THE FLOP!..
right im off another rant done with back to some serious work , btw missed my 4k open tonight for a live cash tourney game in my local social club,....finished 2nd in that too wooot!! shipped it all in on a bluff 100k odd with 83 offsuit on q99 board ..he called 100k more with q4. Ohh well glgl xxxxx
Can all the people who have consistently posted on here that the poker sites are trustworthy and have no reason to cheat please make themselves known. Ha Ha Ha!!! Posted by elsadog
try and take any victory you can get eh. Pleasy explain what cheating has gone on? Everyone knew it was illegal in the US anyway.
In Response to Re: DOJ indicts U.S. poker sites : try and take any victory you can get eh. Pleasy explain what cheating has gone on? Everyone knew it was illegal in the US anyway. Posted by offshoot
Money laundering is illegal and therefore cheating. What else would you call it?
If they will try to cheat the US Government and flout international banking laws they don't really qualify for the honest company of the year award do they. The number of times people have posted that they are too big, too profitable to ever consider doing anything illegal runs into scores.
Never say never.
The FBI have seized control of the servers and they (The FBI) are very very thorough. This will probably get bigger and bigger over the next few months. They have opened a can of worms IMO.
Is it just those 3 sites then? I,m off to to Full Tilt to see whats happened to my 30pts Posted by MP33
As far as poker goes it's these three sites, but there are some financial institutions involved too and that could be a bit risky if you have funds on Neteller for instance.
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Late edit. Sorry dohhhhhh I reaslised after posting that you are referring to U.K.players?
Noticed that SKYPoker now advertising on 2 plus 2 forum, good timing or what.
just signed in on full tilt a lot of the american nosebleed players eg. twoSHAE are looking to just do flips cause they know they are never going to be able to withdraw.
wouldn't their best option be to transfer to someone in the uk who can then withdraw it ?
I RECKON IM DUE FOR AN APOLOGY OFF OF SOME VARIOUS PEOPLE ,ESPICALLY SOME TOP NAMED PLAYERS IN THE USA WHO THINK THEY KNOW EVERYTHING..!!! GONNA BE WRITING A BOOK SOOON I CAN TELL YOU THAT MUCH,...... WATXH THIS SPACE,,
I hope they dont shut down my fulltilt and pokerstars accounts they are the only ones i got left lol!!!
on a side note i agree with pod1 hes spot on here by the way ,but theres a more complicated issue than all of it put together...
and im not getting into no-more arguments with no-one,so dont even bother giving me no xxxx.!!
the dept of justice and the fbi will no doubtably be claiming back taxes and past due revnues off all those sites for violations, they will end up being registered again at a latter date i feel under a new body of government,!!
whoever investigated absolute poker tell them to look into my hand history files please ,I have got them all saved as with all my other info on a stored harddrive, imo!!
they usualy go after the people that have money ,so as in my case we know thats prolly not going to happen with me since I dont have any lol! still a birthday card or a xmas card from half those sites that i continually lost on would be a bonus.
I just hope Annie duke and Phil helmuth will grant me my apology when it comes out that I wasnt lying and just because I wasnt in thier calibre of class doesnt mean I dont know how to play poker!
Sometimes i did wonder why named player (willys) on fulltilt beat me with runner runner in ftops main event 3 years ago....I think now i realise he had at least a 10% chance of winnning AFTER THE FLOP!..
right im off another rant done with back to some serious work , btw missed my 4k open tonight for a live cash tourney game in my local social club,....finished 2nd in that too wooot!! shipped it all in on a bluff 100k odd with 83 offsuit on q99 board ..he called 100k more with q4. Ohh well glgl xxxxx
I,m off to to Full Tilt to see whats happened to my 30pts