negreanu moving back to toronto confirmed

Maybe this will finally spark the long-overdue revolution in America since poker players now have nothing better to do. Grab your pitchforks!

They've frozed bank accounts in 14 countries so I'd say us euros aren't safe either.

im in usa and playing on all 4 sites with no problem

oooooooooooooo **** i might be reliving the part of nic cage's character in "leaving las vegas" this weekend if i can't play online sunday... aklsdjflkajsdlfkjaskldfjaioseur90a8w390

Grunching, still on post #150 but had to do a test withdraw at about 3:20pm E.S.T.

Status: APPROVED

Your withdrawal has been approved.

Funds transferred by ewallet should be available in your account
immediately. Bank transfer withdrawals may take up to 10 - 15
business days to be credited to your bank account.

Delivery times for withdrawals by check vary depending on delivery
method and destination. Checks sent to the Continental US should
arrive within 15 business days via regular mail. International
delivery times will vary.

Thank you for playing at Full Tilt Poker

I expected some type of "sorry there will be a massive delay in processing withdraws". I was approved in less than 5 minutes.

WTF!!! IT's the end of the world...have to go make a living playing live. AHHH!!

I am french and I play on Ps.com

from the donks in the other 95% of the world

Fully doubt it. I mean sure we weren't breaking any laws (unless the sites end up being convicted of illegal gambling), doesn't mean we're entitled to our funds though.

Source:

Meet The Boy Genius Who Just Took Down The Online Poker Industry

The internet is still coming to grips with the huge online gambling bust that just took down the U.S.'s three biggest online poker sites.

But Australia's Courier-Mail already has the scoop on the one man who may have single-handedly built the online industry ... then handed it to the U.S. government on a platter.

According to this story, Daniel Tzvetkoff was a young Australian entrepreneur who set up the payment processing schemes used by the biggest poker sites to handle their (mostly illegal) transactions.

He made Full Tilt Poker and Poker Stars millions of dollars — and making as much $150,000 a day for himself — but then got even more greedy and started taking them for himself. They sued him, demanding more than $100 million of their own money back.

Then last April, Tzvetkoff was arrested in Las Vegas and charged with the same crimes those sites founders were charged with today: money laundering, bank fraud, wire fraud. As an Australian citizen with a lot of wealth, he was considered a flight risk and denied bail.

Then after a "secret" meeting with prosecutors, he was suddenly out on bail. And now, his former colleagues are the ones facing serious jail time.

Daniel Tzvetkoff knows the operations of these poker site inside and out. He's the one man positioned to give these companies to the U.S. Attorneys on a silver platter. And it looks like that's exactly what he did, cooperating with the authorities to avoid his own lengthy jail sentence.

All the major gambling prosecutions in the U.S., since Tzvetkoff's arrest have been run out of the office of Arlo Devlin-Brown, the Manhattan Asst. U.S. Attorney, who is Tzvetkoff's "handler."

According to a source, "He knows how to reverse-engineer transactions to determine its original source," making him very valuable to investigators.

And the biggest irony of all? It's been rumored that the only reason the FBI got their hands on him is because Full Tilt or Poker Stars (the companies he used to work for and stole from) tipped off the FBI that he was going to be traveling to the United States

They ratted him out ... and he turned the tables. No honor among thieves.

And as the Courier Mail put it, if this were still the old days, he'd buried in the Las Vegas desert right now.

Google News: Poker for more information. It's not a headline story: that is reserved for a new stamp (!) featuring the statue of Liberty.

I am a bit disappointed in Pokerstars for punking out so fast.

Also- I have a feeling the B&M games are about to get a lot tougher over here.

GG americans

direct link to reuters:

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/...73E6HW20110415

HEEEELLLLLLLLLLLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO BODOG....

Guess they could just do a transfer to some non US player like P.A or gus and just get them to withdraw for them.

US casinos will benefit from this, a hoard of internet nerds suddenly descending into their rooms...lol

seems to affect US only; Cashout was no prob here (Europe)...

GG americans

look at this image posted earlier in the thread

How about the US government take a lesson from Europe and realize that they should stop living in the 19th century.

just fully legalize it like it is in the UK, stop being ****ing ******s. porn sites are legal yet this isnt in the US? land of the free my arse.

Howard Lederer perp walk photochops?

I would bet against ever seeing that money again. Eric Holder will be rubbing it on his titties.

Level?

Times like this i am proud to be a Eurotard.

Hope all you Americans get your cash OK.

Just bought a ton myself. Can't miss. The playing field just evened for them overseas, though they've had a multi-year head start.