It was all lies. Scott Tom is still the owner.

poker sites have legal opinions from law firms stating that what they're doing doesn't violate law.. innocent until proven guilty??

People just dumping millions to players in europe... why???

Relevant quote:

"Defendants BITAR, SCHEINBERG, BURTNICK, TATE, TOM, BECKLEY, RUBIN and LANG are not presently in the United States and have not yet been arrested. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York is working with foreign law enforcement agencies and Interpol to secure the arrest of these defendants and the seizure of criminal proceeds located abroad."


While only time will tell, it's entirely possible that something good comes out of this in the long run. For years, insiders have been hoping for a 'test case' that would address the luck/skill argument (remember, that's basically what Stars/Tilt et al have been relying on...that poker, as a game of skill, is exempt from the UIGEA).

Can login and Play (AUT) but no able to withdraw:

"Cant establish Secure Connection - Plz contact FTP Support"

LAL

I guess the time in court may finally come.

http://washingtonexaminer.com/local/...lears-congress

Holy ****ing ****

any idea if any processors have been mentioned?

Black Friday is right.

I cant log into any of the poker clients. Definitely awful news

http://www.bestpokerrooms.com/news/f...s-poker-sites/

Will be following this story very closely. Better get my withdrawal though.

Stars and co. will change the domain and move everything to non-us stuff like
http://atdhe.net/ when they were "seized" .
To be honest i think its riskier to cash out right now. Because your money might end up at one of those black listed payment processors.

Although i´d be s*** my pants if UB had my money right now...

Might be bad because its gonna be even harder for casual players to play.

Time to transfer funds to Doyle's Room.

withdrawl from stars working fine in the UK - Americans, the easy solution is to transfer your rollz to my account and I'll cash out for you.

love op's username

Happiest day of my life. F U stars. F U FTP. F U cheating UB and AP.

sick life

tell me this is not happening

Site still normal for me: Oregon, and I was able to withdraw some money 10 min ago with no hitches so far (not that that means much i guess).

Scared ****less for what this might mean for online poker in the upcoming month

At least this is wayyyy better than that awful online poker bill getting passed and having to suffer a blackout period........amirite?

Degenerate depositor ITT.

We're not scaremongering
This is really happening, happening
We're not scaremongering
This is really happening, happening

Mobiles working
Mobiles chirping
Take the money and run
Take the money and run
Take the money...

INB4 "I told u it waz rigged".

looks like the gov't is using the online poker industry (relatively small) as an example to other tax evading firms