Damn Chile - THIS is probably why they're doing it now. This bloody article from 2 1/2 weeks ago even mentions PokerStars and GP
AUSTRALIAN AND US POLICE TO CRACK DOWN ON ONLINE POKER
The Australian Crime Commission has urged the Federal Government and the Australian Federal Police to start charging poker websites blatantly getting around Australian legislation, by outlawing their services.
Sources close to the matter said the ACCC had told the authorities to "pull their finger out".
The move comes after US authorities last month indicted the founders of the three largest poker websites PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker and Absolute Poker. The FBI co-ordinated with the ACC and AFP as part of the crackdown which also involved fallen Brisbane IT tycoon Daniel Tzvetkoff, who was allegedly processing online poker transactions in the US.
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The Courier-Mail reported last month, several young Queenslanders are making a mint playing poker online sometimes earning up to $750,000 a year tax-free.
Providing online poker, bingo and casino games to Australians can draw fines as high as $1.1 million a day under the Interactive Gambling Act but no organisation has been charged in the decade since the laws were enacted.
This is despite the PokerStars website owning a subsidiary, GP Information Services, in Sydney. The company promotes PokerStars and Australian banks are used to transfer funds overseas.
The rest of the article is here:
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/aus...-1226060038148