I have been supernova since 2008. from Australia to South Korea.
last week I come to Egypt and WTF???

UL

lol @ suck it francis...

sorry to the players affected

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not nice



so sick, all those countries

Some Palestinian grinder out there is furious. Imagine how horrible of a year he is already having, and now this?

these 4 dudes are losing it right now

Pulling out of Malaysia cost FTP one of the 4 fish still playing there.

To suggest Amaya is a major player in the war against ISIS is just a we bit silly. I don't think my bad beat against the guy from Thailand was funding any ISIS movements. Furthermore I don't think Canada is using Pokerstars as a facilitator to stifle ISIS growth or movement when the immigration laws here are pretty immigrant friendly to begin with. If Canada was really wanting to send a message they would stop allowing thousands in the country a month

Has anyone received partial milestone cash credits yet?

Vice was actually about to air part 6 of their series on ISIS and I'm pretty sure it included footage of some of the fighters playing the Sunday Million.

There are countries on that list for which embargos exist, but many of them don't have any that should matter to Pokerstars. Weiiiiird move by Pokerstars. Unless they have proof that Stars was being used to move money to certain countries. Like what's wrong with countries like Turkey and Vatican city? Bangladesh doesn't sound too bad either? Then there's a ton of countries where you can argue are a bit shady but the world trades with them every day. Then there's a few black sheep that probably should be forbidden. Really curious what the reason is.

It has to be because a lot of money was flowing to these countries from other countries via shady play/transactions on Pokerstars. Hard to state in your public reports that every month the net value of cash outs in Iraq is 10 million USD or something similair.

All play from IP's within these countries has been banned, not just accounts registered in those countries.. I just tried playing in Iran on my UK account and wasn't able to.

No different than how it's been in the US for the last 3 and a half years.

Glad they didn't pull out from India. Here gambling is illegal too except for Goa and Sikkim.

Its strange that they did not ban all the countries were poker is illegal. I would imagine this has something to do with the new UK legislation and future US legislation. I had a bad feeling for the past week that Poland would be on this list too.

Seems to me Pokerstars -- a publicly traded company via Amaya -- handled this in the best possible fashion. First, they gave a notice to all the players affected prior to these events, and just to make sure there were no misunderstandings, they responded accurately to e-mails and even came to this thread to explain everything.

Almost forgot the heads-up they gave in the PokerCast. Real professionals at work here.

I have same problem but other way around. People can't transfer money they owe me, and on top of that, theres no bank cash out option anymore for the funds i do have on there!

I read somewhere that they are going to deposit on Wednesday night(eastern time). I hope that they would have done this till tomo afternoon(europe time)

lol

It seems we're still in in a period of frequent global changes regarding legislation, blocked countries and segregated player pools and sites.

I remember seeing a chart outlining the current situation by country and/or constellation. Anyone know where any updated (or at least the most current) chart is available?

Whilst pretty sick for those affected the positive spin is this could be a positive development long term in creating a regulated and globally accepted market place for poker?

Pokertube saw this coming

Sept 4, 2014: PokerStars to Pull Out of Grey Markets?

http://www.pokertube.com/poker-news/...f-grey-markets

What about Kazakstan,Kyrgystan,Turkmenistan?They are next i assume

I have a friend who is a Kazak.

She used to work in a casino there, so gambling is definitely legal.

Can't be so sure about online gambling though.

I want to understand, can you transfer or accept transfers or only cashout what you currently have on the account and that's that?

First of all, it does not make any sense for me(a turkish reg. player, making his living nitting on 25nl fr zoom).

I really wonder how money people are playing on pokerstars from turkey.
Most people transfer chips to friends and wire the cash in advance to a bank account.

(However I think most of the money is kept in the system, bc there cant be enough winning turkish players for cashing out,most of them even cant cash out in simple mtts)
So there shouldnt be such a high volume traffic for Turkey.

Otherwise, if it is about going legit, It does make sense for me that stars moving out from these countries, in order to get the license for UK.