End of Online Poker, Feds Seize Sites...

[countinguy]

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/mon...oker-sites-indicted-and-shut-down-by-fbi.html

:sadwave: :sadwave:

 

[Theismann]

Poor Dun he's going to be PISSED:scared

 

[MadJack]

Wow! I can't even connect to 2+2 to find out more. What poker names were indicted? Lederer? Ivy?

 

[countinguy]

Can't even get loggedd:0002 :0002 on 2 plus 2 forum, overlogged w/online players w/nothing else to do

 

[kickserv]

Why the USA doesn't just tax online poker and sports gambling is beyond me.


Can buy a fucking gun at a department store but can't place a 2 dollar bet on pocket aces

<a href="http://www.threadbombing.com/details.php?image_id=4949"><img src= "http://www.threadbombing.com/data/media/54/000fs937.gif" border="0" alt="Facepalm" /> </a>

 

[hedgehog]

:sadwave: our over reaching government...

Jack, I hope you are protected

 

[kickserv]

Think of the money the USA gov't could make by taxing this:scared

 

[Sportsaholic]

"Prosecutors are seeking to immediately shut down the sites and to eventually send the executives to jail and to recover $3 billion from the companies."


Wonder if I have a refund coming to me :0003

 

[countinguy]

wonder when they will seize the online sports books?:0corn

 

[Sportsaholic]

wonder when they will seize the online sports books?:0corn

What next the NYSE :SIB

 

[kickserv]

Madjackers are welcome to live with kickserv......:canada1


:grins:

 

[yyz]

Move to D.C.

:shrug:

 

[countinguy]

http://www.businessinsider.com/boy-genius-online-poker-scandal-2011-4

 

[MadJack]

:sadwave: our over reaching government...

Jack, I hope you are protected

Yeah, I run a huge poker site and sportsbook

 

[MadJack]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0buIN52ewCc

 

[MadJack]

Good luck collecting money you have there.

Good thing the Feds don't have anything better to do

Authorities issued restraining orders for upwards of 75 bank accounts used by the poker companies and their payment processors. In addition, five Internet domain names used by the companies, the largest U.S. online poker websites, were seized.

http://blogs.barrons.com/techtrader...s-of-largest-u-s-online-poker-sites-indicted/

 

[MadJack]

Because U.S. banks and credit card issuers were largely
unwilling to process their payments, the Poker Companies
allegedly used fraudulent methods to circumvent federal law and
trick these institutions into processing payments on their
behalf. For example, defendants ISAI SCHEINBERG and PAUL TATE of
PokerStars, RAYMOND BITAR and NELSON BURTNICK of Full Tilt Poker,
and SCOTT TOM and BRENT BECKLEY of Absolute Poker, arranged for
the money received from U.S. gamblers to be disguised as payments
to hundreds of non-existent online merchants purporting to sell
merchandise such as jewelry and golf balls.

:facepalm:

 

[gardenweasel]

who`s surprised?

not an online poker player,but i`m very sorry to see this......the foot is in the door now...

 

[DZ]

This sucks... I stopped playing online poker years ago, but this really sounds like a mess for anyone who had open accounts with funds in them.

:0003

 

[dunclock]

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/mon...oker-sites-indicted-and-shut-down-by-fbi.html

:facepalm:

:sadwave: money