Full Tilt, Pokerstars, Ultimate Bet seized by gov't?

[daneblazer]

did you cash out from bodog?

I cashed out some of my roll there this afternoon, and will probably take it down to 25% of what it was this morning by tomorrow.

I think Bodog will be okay for the time being, but how can anyway say for sure at this point?

[nyplayer33]

Time to give up poker..it's gonna get much worse..too fkin dangerous..risk of money frozen or forfeited

[dukeman]

just seen this and to me this is a bunch of bs by the us goverment hope it does no affect bodog and the merge rooms

[sinmiedo]

I cashed out some of my roll there this afternoon, and will probably take it down to 25% of what it was this morning by tomorrow.

I think Bodog will be okay for the time being, but how can anyway say for sure at this point?

i did cash out this week and last week.
i have 1 payment in transit and i still have some money there,
the other issue is that i have a few frerolls form sng and the 100000 this sunday to play.
if i do ok i hope to be able to cash out somthing.
as a rule of play i never leave more than 200 in the account

[RL75]

Well I cashed out at PS before they took the site down. I only had a few hundred in there. Honestly I doubt I will ever see it. fn'g govt.

You can smoke and drink but God forbid you gamble. Well, you can't really smoke, you can buy the cigarettes that they tax the hell out of but you can't smoke anywhere. There's a county in Minnesota that passed a bill that you cannot smoke in public - NO LIE.

[bettilimbroke999]

I think the mistake was naming it Full Tilt and Pokerstar Bank, I mean that was just foolish

[Whippit]

anyone wanna settle right now, I can pay 1.5 cents on the dollar pending further investigation

[Nookx]

I guess the government isn't worried about the billions of dollars leaving the us over the borders from drug smuggling. They go after whoever they can make examples of.

[Kaabee]

so glad i got out when i did

[BeerDog99]

i did cash out this week and last week.
i have 1 payment in transit and i still have some money there,
the other issue is that i have a few frerolls form sng and the 100000 this sunday to play.
if i do ok i hope to be able to cash out somthing.
as a rule of play i never leave more than 200 in the account

Hey Sin,

I think for now, it is really only directly affects US players. Canadians playing poker is not (nor foreseen) to be affected.

The biggest potential issues are less $$ coming in with fish and harder to cash in/out.

Cheers.

[sneak-a-peak]

Time to become the local!

haha

ya no shit!

[Whippit]

anyone wanna settle right now, I can pay 1.5 cents on the dollar pending further investigation

sorry, typo I meant points

[BeerDog99]

approx. 95k users on pokerstars, just keeps coming down. wow.....

[cobalt king]

I'm playing on tilt right now, I deposited today?

[Whippit]

95k is still a lot of degenerate mfers

[notsosharp]

unreal...online poker is over.

[iQon]

Good ole red, white, and blue.

I'd rather they go back to wasting my tax dollars on investigating steroids in baseball, then cockblocking poker and sportsbooks. Seriously, how pointless is this?

[MarlinsFan2212]

I'm playing on tilt right now, I deposited today?

Where do you live? And why would you even deposit after this news?

[neverstoppers23]

how will they go after sports books next, sites like bodog 5dimes and intertops do not operate within the usa, or use usa banks. are they going after the poker players at all, like fining them?

[FuzzyDunlop]

Time to give up poker..it's gonna get much worse..too fkin dangerous..risk of money frozen or forfeited

Not give up, maybe take a few month break, there are now three brick and mortars that have poker software ready to go, Party is still on good terms. So crazy today though, with these three gone, the first site US players can play on is 21st on the traffic list.

[BigDofBA]

Where do you live? And why would you even deposit after this news?

From my understanding, Full tilt will be playable for 48 hours but after that you are screwed.

I sure as hell wouldn't deposit ant money there.

[Smoke]

The FBI just stuck their dick up your ass...

Fight back or continue to get raped...

Stand up for your fukkin rights guys...

[nyplayer33]

bad economy and no credit..fish r long gone

[Greekster]

poker stars is now under 90,000 ppl online. what might be smart is to register for a free roll that qualifies for a cash table tomorrow where you can make some money and cash out. Your chances for qualifying is going to be easier with less and less ppl online.

[Milk Money]

Do sportsbooks use the same processors and poker sites? I would think poker processors would have distanced themselves from sportsbetting.

Sportsbetting processors surely knew what they are doing is illegal.
Whether the government decides to go after sportsbetting anytime soon is anyone guess.

[hitthew8room]

well this sucks. hopeuflly the gov't starts regulating this shit or were all screwed

[Greekster]

I should add this makes sense if youre not an American citizen.

[CollegeOverUnder]

holy shit

[BigDofBA]

Do sportsbooks use the same processors and poker sites? I would think poker processors would have distanced themselves from sportsbetting.

Sportsbetting processors surely knew what they are doing is illegal.
Whether the government decides to go after sportsbetting anytime soon is anyone guess.

Anyone cash a check from Bodog lately?

[BrigadierPudding]

The only reason this happened is b/c of the former employee turncoat. The fear I have with books is they'll panic and leave the US market.

[Deep_Rest]

Awww man...the 1.5M guaranteed on Stars won't even get to 750k...anybody from Los Angeles wanna take a road trip to Canada?

[rem sleep]

I want the gov to legalize online sportsbooks and let the free market mold their business. Look at how much all these off shore books are making off US players. And if they tax it they would still generate billions of dollars that would stay in this country.

There is money to be made if we tax this so don't just shut it down.

[Scottish]

Wow wtf

[nyplayer33]

think your money is gone

[FuzzyDunlop]

Government will let you get paid out, just like they did with Neteller.