From your words, I suspect youare a losing player at some level online. Your personal suck factor means little to this story. If your pissed about cashing out what is left, it's likely safer at either site than most american banks.
In order to get legalization within it's own borders, the U.S. feds must outlaw the competiton. This paves the way for U.S. based sites to begin the software devlopement(probably done) and get the sites up and running in each state that wishes to gain the revenue. Most players are more than willing to accept the current rake fees no matter who's site it is. Patience is the idea. Relax players, it gets better.

I can log on and the games seem to be on alright.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZMwKPmsbWE

hyper turbo 990 free money starting soon on stars get in it guys

too lazy to look through and quote but the: '35 cookie baskets, ivey opening tobacco company, and internet porn site' posts are gold jerry gold!!!!!!!!!!

i guess its time to move right next to a casino?

KABOOOM.....Im in Virginia and i just logged onto stars...cant touch my money, cant play any games, cant do anything....WTF?????

Fix here:
http://forum.pokercollectif.com/poke...s-bloques.html

It's because of the dns.

same thing just happened to me...

This.

Economical interest groups runs the US.

I don't think funny is the right word...

Like the market gives a crap about online poker:

but does that mean that obama really didn't do anything to f things up either? are yo usaying mccain would have given us the pkers?

I can log in fine in NY ???

and play for teh moneyz

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IM GOING TO BED. GOODNIGHT 143 XOXOX <3

If this happened to WoW, the whole internet surrounding the USA gov's agencies would be dead for the next month.

We need the real nerds, not just the socially awkward under achievers.

I dont wanna have to drop down and play with 5 russian rakeback grinder for the rest of my life.

agreed!

I am a convicted fraudster, and this is just the govt trying to get their slice and given the extent and #'s involved i hardly blame them.

These sites were committing out right bank and wire fraud as well as apparently bribes to smaller banks with promises of investment. Prosecuting a crime like this is hardly a partisan issue. Anyone thinking that they are determined to remove a tiny % of the populations freedom to play poker because they are some crazy regime is just flat out dumb.

These are completely crooked companies based on the indictment and while I and im sure others could rationalize their actions its still flat out fraud.

I actually lol'd.

Peachymer has to play live now

Nice

Haven't posted on here in years. The UIGEA & subsequent shutdown of Party Poker killed my online "career" as my earn rate shrank to a fraction of what the fry cook at McDonald's makes, but I still had a few hundred on Stars that I played recreationally with. I'm treating that like it's gone at this point.

My heart goes out to the U.S. players who still were grinding for a living. If I were in a position to help any of you, I would. Instead, I'll just hope that this sorts itself out quickly & you all can get paid, if nothing else.

To the rest of the world, I'd like to apologize on behalf of the country I was born in. Without going all political in a poker forum, there's a lot of crap the United States does which I (and most Americans) disagree with. This is yet another of those things.

I'm sure that long-term this won't mean the death of online poker in the United States. There's just too much money to be made from this thing for it to die off. If it's something actually run or at least signed off on by the U.S. government, well...it will probably be done completely bassackwards, but it will at least on some level be poker.

"Disenfranchised" doesn't even begin to describe my feelings right now.

how is this possible? you sir, are a genius.

Is anyone else playing with their whole stack?

Who gives a ****. **** it.