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COOL HAND POKERThe U.S. D.O.J. has released domains to Full Tilt and PokerStars As I'm sure most of you are aware, the U.S. Department of Justice seized the .com domain names of Full Tilt, PokerStars, UB and Absolute Poker on Friday April 15th, 2011 and charged each company with bank fraud, money laundering and other charges. Today, April 20th, 2011, Full Tilt and PokerStars have reached an agreement with the D.O.J. to release their domains to help facilitate cash outs to U.S. players. The agreement also states that both Full Tilt and PokerStars will be able to continue offering real money poker games to players outside of the U.S. In the official agreement, Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said: "No individual player accounts were ever frozen or restrained, and each implicated poker company has at all times been free to reimburse any player's deposited funds. In fact, this Office expects the companies to return the money that U.S. players entrusted to them, and we will work with the poker companies to facilitate the return of funds to players, as today’s agreements with PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker demonstrate." Full Tilt Poker has already issued the following statement on the matter: "Although players in the United States will not be permitted to engage in real-money play, the agreement expressly allows for real-money play outside of the United States." "In addition, the agreement represents an important first step towards returning funds to U.S. players because it allows Full Tilt Poker to utilize its domain to facilitate the withdrawal of player funds. But, unfortunately, there remain significant practical and legal impediments to returning funds to players in the immediate future. As a result of the recent enforcement action, there exists no authorized U.S. payment channel through which to make refunds; Full Tilt Poker has no accounting of the millions of dollars of player funds that were seized by the government; and the government has not agreed to permit any of the seized player funds to be returned to the players." "Finally, there are numerous legal and jurisdictional issues that must be considered before poker winnings can be paid out to players throughout the United States. While Full Tilt Poker continues to believe that online poker is not illegal under federal law or in 49 states, the indictment and civil forfeiture action filed last Friday require Full Tilt Poker to proceed with caution in this area." "Notwithstanding these issues, Full Tilt Poker is ready to work diligently with the United States Attorney’s Office in the Southern District of New York to try and resolve these issues and to get players their money back as soon as possible." PokerStars has also issued the following statement: "Returning US players’ funds is a top priority for PokerStars and the company can now start the process of returning money to its former US customers. All PokerStars player deposits are completely safe. The Isle of Man’s strict licensing laws (similar to other jurisdictions where PokerStars holds licenses) require all funds to be held in accounts that are segregated from company assets. PokerStars has always complied with this requirement and continues to do so. This money is readily available to meet withdrawal demands, indeed the company continues to comply with withdrawal requests from players based outside the US as normal. Outside the U.S., PokerStars continues to operate business as usual." Neither UB or Absolute Poker have released any statements on this matter but we will continue to keep you updated as the story unfolds. |
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