Pokerstars, Full Tilt, UB.com, Absolute Poker seized by FBI

[orren]

Holy crap I've been under a rock... WTF is going on yo???

BTW I'm sitting here playing a freeroll at Full Tilt rite now. But I have not logged off the site in about a day and a half, so I dont know what you all mean about not being able to play. lol

[blueday]

I see Full Tilt's website is back to normal.

I don't know how you are managing to play Orren.  What is your location..or is this the same for everyone?

blue

[wnanhee]

Wow pretty crazy!

This is the press release from the US DOJ

http://www.justice.gov/usao/nys/pressreleases/April11/scheinbergetalindictmentpr.pdf

Wow...this is some serious charges and if I read it correctly, they are facing some major years in prison...

[Rosebud]

I tried to log-in and wasn't able to   so much for the players from the States being able to play I can still log-in to Adam n Eve tho but who knows for how long. Thanks for all the info from you blue and everyone else too.   And to our goverment off.

[orren]

I am in California

[everyone]

Here fulltiltpoker.com is down and also pokerstars.com.But both sites have moved to another host PS->pokerstars.eu and fulltilt->fulltiltpoker.co.uk
I am not from USA i can login but you can get a try to see if works to login on fulltiltpoker.co.uk (i heared pokerstars.eu don't let USA players).

[blueday]

Below is the announcement from Pokerstars.

blue

EDIT:

I should add that both Pokerstars and Full Tilt have had a software update.  The Full Tilt update is not currently working.

[LhasaLover]

I'm in the SE US and just opened AbPoker.  It downloaded a bunch of new stuff, then let me login as usual.  I tried going to the website, and it's a .eu domain, but I wasn't able to access it - didn't try real hard, either.

[patrickgoo]

This really sucks for US affiliates. It seems tilt is using www.fulltilpoker.co.uk as the main site and stars is using www.pokerstars.eu but the cashier is not available for usa players, i wonder if the visitors are being recorded...

[perkypoo]

Does this mean that all poker rooms will start to ban all US player?  If the poker rooms that do continue to allow US players, does this mean that they will face the same charges as Fulltilt and AB?  We just can't have any kind of fun anymore because of government restrictions.

perkypoo (ex-poker player)

[blueday]

Does this mean that all poker rooms will start to ban all US player?  If the poker rooms that do continue to allow US players, does this mean that they will face the same charges as Fulltilt and AB?  We just can't have any kind of fun anymore because of government restrictions.

perkypoo (ex-poker player)

I'm guessing this may happen (all sites banning US players) however, you will guess that the FBI have gone after the biggest of the sites....there's money to be made there.  Smaller sites are probably just not worth the effort to them.

Huge shame whichever way it goes for all US poker players.

blue

[cjdawgct]

This is really a violation of OUR RIGHTS!  The government is so broke they are going after anything they can.   Remember this in 2012  VOTE EVERY INCUMBENT OUT OF OFFICE!

[Dionysus]

I'm Canadian and can't log in..sniff

[Zuga]

Things will get worse till they get better.

But, IMO, this may be the blessing in disguise. The US gov may be preparing the ground for legalizing gambling and licensing the casinos in future. I do believe they are trying to get rid of all the operations that are taking money out of the USA at present time.

It is all about the money after all, and the US market is the biggest in the world.

The white label Rival Casinos are shutting down the new US players, and we should also expect similar thing with RTG, Vegas Tech....

Its wait and see at this point, but im confident things will change after the storm is over.


Zuga

[orren]

I'll tell you whats going on.... The U.S. is about to legalize online poker, possibly casino's too.

So you open up gaming in your country... But, how do you get anyone to join a no name poker room or casino with little to no traffic??

Answer is extremely simple. Eliminate the competition...

I highly doubt they will bother with any of the other gaming sites. They wont be worth the bother. The time and it would take, would not justify the effects in return. Go after the big fish. Even if the charges dont hold up, you've taken them offline (at least to US players) long enough to get your own business up and running.