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Old 04-16-2011, 09:50 AM   #3136
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Re: Reuters: Full Tilt Poker, Pokerstars and Absolute Poker charged with illegal gambling

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http://calvinayre.com/2011/04/16/leg...atest-updates/

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X Worse, these emails directly indicate the poker companies’ complicity in these schemes, with PokerStars documents admitting that they were employing company names that “strongly imply the transaction has nothing to do with PokerStars” and that they used whatever names “the processor can get approved by the bank.”
Oh no, guess the porn industry is next. Anyone ever been charged by f**kmyb**bs.com? Didn't think so.
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Old 04-16-2011, 09:50 AM   #3137
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Re: Reuters: Full Tilt Poker, Pokerstars and Absolute Poker charged with illegal gambling

To this day, Pokerstars and FullTilt have always done right by us and I wont expect anything different now, even with the severity of this situation.

I am speaking of the safety of the balances of US players.
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Old 04-16-2011, 09:50 AM   #3138
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This is hilarious

masses of anti-social teengers who have never experienced a day of work in their life are now going to be forced to look for jobs. though they obviously won't be able find one since the have the communication skills of a monkey

haha
ban this idiot pls
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Old 04-16-2011, 09:51 AM   #3139
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Re: Reuters: Full Tilt Poker, Pokerstars and Absolute Poker charged with illegal gambling

FTP Store works
Cashout works
Only americans having problems

I'm from europe, and i don't see any reason why we would be afraid of losing our bankrolls
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Old 04-16-2011, 09:51 AM   #3140
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Re: Reuters: Full Tilt Poker, Pokerstars and Absolute Poker charged with illegal gambling

UB seized also
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Old 04-16-2011, 09:53 AM   #3141
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UB seized also
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Old 04-16-2011, 09:53 AM   #3142
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Re: Reuters: Full Tilt Poker, Pokerstars and Absolute Poker charged with illegal gambling

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oh god FBI Assistant Director-in-Charge Janice K. Fedarcyk, decided to pepper her statement to the press with poker-related terminology.

To quote “These defendants … tried to stack the deck. They bet the house that they could continue their scheme, and they lost.”

epic fail you stupid bi tch
Are you having problems in ireland with software ?
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Old 04-16-2011, 09:56 AM   #3143
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Re: Reuters: Full Tilt Poker, Pokerstars and Absolute Poker charged with illegal gambling

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That reasoning makes no sense. USA Players broke the law by engaging in online gambling. They will all forfeit their funds to the government.
It makes perfect sense. It Stars is going down (looks likely), it will be without my British money anywhere near it.
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Old 04-16-2011, 09:56 AM   #3144
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Are you having problems in ireland with software ?
i dont play on fulltilt since june last year, im on ipoker now. just checked my software though. works fine, why are u having problems?
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Old 04-16-2011, 09:57 AM   #3145
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ban this idiot pls
Ban me for what?

Your first step to get out of this mess is taking a few classes in human relations
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Old 04-16-2011, 09:57 AM   #3146
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FTP Store works
Cashout works
Only americans having problems

I'm from europe, and i don't see any reason why we would be afraid of losing our bankrolls
Im from europe too, but my cashout dont works (FTP) :/
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Old 04-16-2011, 09:57 AM   #3147
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US government taking a piss here IMO. Internet is international, .com domains are not .us.

Sure, seize .us if online poker is illegal in US but show some respect to the rest of the world and don't touch domains that are generally used as cross-nation.
No offense to any Americans here but since when has the US government showed respect to the rest of the world? It doesn't even respect it's own people so why would you expect it to respect others.
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Old 04-16-2011, 09:58 AM   #3148
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To all UK players try www.fulltiltpoker.co.uk

.eu redirecting to .com


this may be old news
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Old 04-16-2011, 09:58 AM   #3149
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They don't need to pay the $3B in fines right now. They may in fact never have to pay it. However, they do need to pay out all of the withdrawal requests from places outside the US.
Yeah by not paying any non US players they would get in trouble with governments all over the world.You would think they might want to be able to travel to the rest of the world even if they have to stay away from the US. So I would consider funds for players outside the US as the most safe.

However, and I'm not saying they will, if they then run out of money they could simply tell the US government 'Sorry the only 3 billion we have left belongs to US players. Should we give it to you or to them'.

This goes for Stars where the owners are non americans. FTP could be more complicated since the US owners might want to keep their US options open.
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Old 04-16-2011, 09:58 AM   #3150
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Ban me for what?

Your first step to get out of this mess is taking a few classes in human relations
Ban
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