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04-16-2011 , 09:24 AM

#3076

Gary_Neville

veteran

Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 2,959

WTF

04-16-2011 , 09:25 AM

#3077

coolnout

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: May 2009 Posts: 12,430

Quote:

Originally Posted by rayfox111

No way they will close the site, their in serious trouble with USA authorities but the rest of the world will be their lifeline.
Care to bet?

really not interested in betting.

Andrew Feldman from ESPN first tweeted:

According to @GamblingComp, all the indicted sites, around the world, will be down within 48 hours. #gg about 6 hours ago via web

For those that are asking, yes, I was told that the sites will be down even where the sites currently legal. Only the 3 though (AP/FTP/PS) about 6 hours ago via web

then:

Eric Morris publisher of Bluff Magazine was also just on the Quadjacks broadcast and said he heard from a very reputable source that Stars would shutdown completely in the coming days.

04-16-2011 , 09:25 AM

#3078

MoniesRemovalPLC

journeyman

Join Date: Mar 2011 Posts: 212

Quote:

Originally Posted by FedorViaMastery

I would do the exact same thing too, and I'd be willing to bet house that everyone in this thread would too

have you been talking to Janice K. Fedarcyk ???

04-16-2011 , 09:25 AM

#3079

rayfox111

adept

Join Date: Dec 2008 Posts: 1,185

Quote:

Originally Posted by Deuc3s

All Euros should be doing everything they can to get the money off the sites.

Stars wont be able to cover all the withdrawels once the us guys start trying to withdraw.

They cant pay the USA players.
The worst thing you can do is withdraw your money.

04-16-2011 , 09:25 AM

#3080

LukeRad89

banned

Join Date: Apr 2009 Posts: 2,522

Quote:

Originally Posted by chrismo34

Are you able to play cash games on Fulltilt?? I am also in England and can open the software which i had to re download from the .net site but there are only playmoney games going on

This is because u downloaded from .net and not .com, .net only offers paly money games so they can advertise without breaking any gambling laws.

04-16-2011 , 09:25 AM

#3081

pricedin

grinder

Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 525

Quote:

Originally Posted by BlackRifle

Why tax it? Why have we gotten to a point where we just accept new taxes from the gov that regulate human behavior? How about making the gov smaller so we need less tax money.

Not a great time to be arguing for us to reduce taxes, but let's not venture too much into unrelated politics, please.

If the only way we can play is if it's taxed, then so be it.

04-16-2011 , 09:25 AM

#3082

ranka

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 7,503

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XjP3nSE2r0

04-16-2011 , 09:26 AM

#3083

Tommy_Ho

banned

Join Date: Oct 2010 Posts: 1,206

Quote:

Originally Posted by LolDonkamentz

Weighing up whether to withdraw, not a high roller but have enough to care about losing. Am a UK player but just enough contrasting information to worry me, any other EU players thinking of withdrawing till it blows over?

✖ PokerStars has also suspended US real money play and changed the default URL on its associated sites to PokerStars.eu. Money transfers have also been disabled. ESPN’s Andrew Feldman is speculating that the affected poker sites will shut down across the globe within 48 hours.

If Interpol starts seizing assets -- umm? If it were me, doesn't look good for the rest of the world...

04-16-2011 , 09:26 AM

#3084

PanchoStern

veteran

Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 3,197

Quote:

Originally Posted by BlackRifle

Why tax it? Why have we gotten to a point where we just accept new taxes from the gov that regulate human behavior? How about making the gov smaller so we need less tax money.

Indeed.

04-16-2011 , 09:27 AM

#3085

sky4ever

journeyman

Join Date: Mar 2011 Posts: 259

Quote:

Originally Posted by FedorViaMastery

I really don't get the excessive Tzvetkoff hate. Sure, he was the "genius" that came up with the money laundering scheme in the first place, and handled hundreds of millions for these sites, so I guess thats a scumbag move, but in all fairness the people who hired him to do this is at fault too. And the interesting part is, they turn their backs on him and turn him into the feds, so he is now facing federal charges. Is it really THAT weird that he in return makes a deal with the feds to be free and keep his money, if he tells them everything he knows about these sites and their crimes, which he does.

I would do the exact same thing too, and I'd be willing to bet house that everyone in this thread would too. If your boss hires you to do a job, and you do that job enormously well and makes your boss a fortune, and he thanks you by giving you up to the feds and makes you face 20+ years jailtime and total bankruptcy UNLESS you tell him what you know, you wouldn't tell them everything you know?

without poker rooms relying on services provided by Tzvetkoff and other like him, i.e. bogus payment processors, US players would have stopped playing online poker in 2006 and not just now.

04-16-2011 , 09:28 AM

#3086

LukeRad89

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Join Date: Apr 2009 Posts: 2,522

When u open up stars it says everything will be as normal for the overseas players and does not mention a shutdown at all.....

04-16-2011 , 09:28 AM

#3087

spankedtwice

old hand

Join Date: Jan 2010 Posts: 1,728

toktoktoktoktoktotktokt

04-16-2011 , 09:28 AM

#3088

reverie

adept

Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 1,000

Quote:

Originally Posted by Gary_Neville

WTF

and carbon celebrated the news with a reload bonus.

04-16-2011 , 09:29 AM

#3089

goncalostar

old hand

Join Date: Nov 2009 Posts: 1,372

FTP down in some contries in Europe.

04-16-2011 , 09:29 AM

#3090

OSU

enthusiast

Join Date: Aug 2010 Posts: 69

Any suggestions on what to do with my bodog roll? I know the site is still up and running and they weren't named in the indictment. My concern is if the check they send me comes from one of the off shore banks that had its assets frozen by the DOJ

04-16-2011 , 09:29 AM

#3091

Tommy_Ho

banned

Join Date: Oct 2010 Posts: 1,206

Quote:

Originally Posted by LukeRad89

When u open up stars it says everything will be as normal for the overseas players and does not mention a shutdown at all.....

LOL until Interpol seizes all assest in the Isle of Man....

04-16-2011 , 09:29 AM

#3092

FedorViaMastery

enthusiast

Join Date: Dec 2010 Posts: 82

Quote:

Originally Posted by MoniesRemovalPLC

have you been talking to Janice K. Fedarcyk ???

lol that made me laugh, well played. Unlike her, I actually play poker from time to time so I used that phrase naturally, she just did it to spite the poker community.

04-16-2011 , 09:29 AM

#3093

saerdna

newbie

Join Date: Jan 2010 Posts: 18

"On the Isle of Man we make sure that all licensee's have a system in place which fully protects all player funds. This means that any deposits or winnings you have with an island regulated gaming firm are secure and can be enforced by law"
http://www.gov.im/gambling/players.xml

does this mean anything?

04-16-2011 , 09:30 AM

#3094

BigBadJonV

old hand

Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 1,815

Oh wtf I was one day from getting my take two, of course obama steals my $20, this was planned.

04-16-2011 , 09:31 AM

#3095

FragsReaver

centurion

Join Date: May 2010 Posts: 115

FTP store IS WORKING.

Ofc I mean that you can use it, I'm not sure if you can receive anything.

04-16-2011 , 09:31 AM

#3096

Quasar30

old hand

Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 1,866

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dolech

stop by my folks house last night after work and my mom tells me with a smiling face , so online poker is illegal , im like mom its not illegal its just you cant get your money on by us banks. I tell her how it works and makes me look like I know what im talking about.

I get home to find out my mom was right along, now i have to call her and say she was right.

wow...contemplate suicide?

04-16-2011 , 09:32 AM

#3097

AUGUY55

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Sep 2008 Posts: 22,793

Bodog was the first site I ever played on. I miss those days. I'm afraid to go back. I haven't played there in years really. I would be afraid to deposit to be honest.

04-16-2011 , 09:33 AM

#3098

sky4ever

journeyman

Join Date: Mar 2011 Posts: 259

Quote:

Originally Posted by rayfox111

They cant pay the USA players.
The worst thing you can do is withdraw your money.

any non-US player can withdraw their money safely on moneybookers for example. that's a fully legit payment processor and has nothing to do with what's happening right now. It works like this: FTP/Stars has their own moneybookers account from witch they send $$ to your moneybookers account.
moneybookers is unavailable in US