On the afternoon associated with Friday, April 15, 2011, your Department associated with Justice sei...

1. Department of Justice shuts down online poker in U.S. -
National Conservative
On the afternoon associated with Friday, April 15, 2011, your Department associated with Justice
seized your domains associated with Poker Stars, Total TIlt Poker, and Ultimate Bet/Absolute Poker,
the extremely best 3 on your internet poker domains within the Usa as well as the world. THe
transfer effectively shuts Americans out of playing poker online.
Eleven folks throughout the three companies (as well as payment processors below investigation)
were indicted about costs of money laundering, bank fraud, along with illegal gambling. The
Particular costs occur from the passage in the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act, passed
throughout October regarding 2006 shortly just before Democrats took control of each chambers
regarding Congress.
With your seizure, Americans won't end up being
capable of play in any real-money video games
within the particular three sites, nor will they will
be able to deposit or perhaps withdraw funds -
leaving many individuals in the lurch who does
preferably be usually withdrawing funds in the
sites. In Contrast to 1 week ago, both Poker Stars
and full Tilt's active player base seemed to become
able to drop simply by approximately 40% thanks to
the American blackout.
"I've been declaring with regard to fairly a while
now the expectation is date along with enforcement
will merely be described as a blip or perhaps bump
within the road with regard to poker players, not
just a catastrophic event that will shut down World
wide web poker in the U.S.," mentioned John
Pappas, executive director in the Poker Players
Alliance
In the particular interim, the sites have got
announced they'll cease real-money operations

2. within the United States, nevertheless continue to supply services outside involving the United
States.
Agreements that will had been reached inside your most recent weeks, in between Poker Stars along
with Wynn Resorts as well as among Total Tilt and also Station Casinos, now seem to be inside
jeopardy. the agreements had been reached with the understanding that on-line poker would
eventually always be regulated and permit the actual on your internet sites to possess a brick-an-
-mortar presence within the United States. Your the majority of current try is at December 2010,
when an attempt to regulate the particular industry failed to give throughout the lame-duck
Congressional session.