Full Tilt, PokerStars and Absolute Poker now closed to US-Players

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Monday, April 18th 2011, 3:43pm

Full Tilt, PokerStars and Absolute Poker now closed to US-Players

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Original Post:

As many of you may have already heard (especially if you are a player at one of the affected poker rooms), Full Tilt, PokerStars and Absolute Poker have closed their doors to American players. This is the result of an FBI investigation, which has alleged the three companies violated US regulations on online gambling.

You can read more about these events here: http://money.cnn.com/2011/04/15/news/eco…er_indictments/

The official FBI indictment is also publically available: https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=e…=CJ6Jmu0C&pli=1

In response to the news, a number of poker rooms have changed their signup policies to include more attractive bonus offers, including:

William Hill Poker: 100% up to 650 GBP / $1,000 / €700
Winner Poker: 200% up to $1,000
Titan Poker: 200% up to $1,000 and 100% Reload Bonus up to $200

Titan Poker is also offering Full Tilt and PokerStars players the chance to retain their VIP membership level if they sign up at Titan.

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Monday, April 18th 2011, 4:41pm

Those are very interesting news and we'll try to keep you all up to date on what's happening at the 3 poker rooms in question.

The situation is clearly twofold:

On the one hand playing on FTP and Pokerstars now should be a lot easier for us donks out there because all the strong US players are out of the picture at the moment.

But then again on the other hand can we really feel safe having our money in those rooms?

From my point of view as a non US player I believe playing at those poker rooms is safe but I would not vouch for any of them at the moment. It is just all too surprising and sudden.

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Tuesday, April 19th 2011, 12:41am

Quoted from "Romaine"

On the one hand playing on FTP and Pokerstars now should be a lot easier for us donks out there because all the strong US players are out of the picture at the moment.

HAHAHA!!! That was a good laugh..I need that since I'm american
going to miss playing with you guys I hope we things will be clear out soon

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Tuesday, April 19th 2011, 12:43am

Update:
Absolute Poker is still having american players play real money games..i just played on saturday and was still able to play real money games. But not sure how much longer they will be doing this

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Tuesday, April 19th 2011, 1:30pm

Quoted from "Dreams of Tragedy"

Update:
Absolute Poker is still having american players play real money games..i just played on saturday and was still able to play real money games. But not sure how much longer they will be doing this

Probably not for very much longer I am afraid.

I guess Doylesroom and Carbon Poker will still be a viable option. You can also try Intertops Poker in my opinion. They are one of the oldest gaming brands out there, very respectable and trustworthy and as far as I know still US-friendly.

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Thursday, April 21st 2011, 2:17am

yeah I been testing alot of poker clients that still take u.s. players.
But not like the poker clients...I'm guessing I'm so use to stars and tilt clients.
But I'll find my home soon hopefully.. if not then I guess I'll start playing live.

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Monday, May 9th 2011, 5:59pm

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