full tilt/pokerstars taken down by feds

[Riot]

Let us know if you get your money!

Two of the three online poker sites shut down by the government last week have cut a deal to return players' money, the Justice Department in New York said today.

The agreements allow for PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker to use the pokerstars.com and fulltiltpoker.com domain names to facilitate the withdrawal of U.S. players' funds held in accounts with the companies, according to the statement.

"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," Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharra said in a statement. "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."

http://abcnews.go.com/Business/shutd...ry?id=13412260

[hi_im_god]

Originally Posted by Riot

Let us know if you get your money!

thanks, riot! i'll see what happens tonight.

[randallscott35]

Originally Posted by hi_im_god

thanks, riot! i'll see what happens tonight.

so happy for you

[hi_im_god]

still not able to withdraw any money at full tilt. anyone playing pokerstars able to withdraw?

[Riot]

Can you get to the poker site people via telephone? I'd want to get my money up front, before they start adding up legal fees.

If not, I"ll bet this telephone number is available on the internet:
Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharra

[hi_im_god]

Originally Posted by Riot

Can you get to the poker site people via telephone? I'd want to get my money up front, before they start adding up legal fees.

If not, I"ll bet this telephone number is available on the internet:
Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharra

i'm not that worried. i assumed the money was gone on friday. if there's a chance i can eventually get access to it that's great.

i'm sure full tilt's owner's are going to be a little behind the curve set by the d.o.j. in a press announcement. i would guess there may be a hang up getting my major u.s. bank to accept an unmasked transfer from a gambling site which remains a violation of the 2006 act that caused all this uproar.

if i ever get it i'll be happy. if not, i'll live.

[jms62]

Originally Posted by hi_im_god

i'm not that worried. i assumed the money was gone on friday. if there's a chance i can eventually get access to it that's great.

i'm sure full tilt's owner's are going to be a little behind the curve set by the d.o.j. in a press announcement. i would guess there may be a hang up getting my major u.s. bank to accept an unmasked transfer from a gambling site which remains a violation of the 2006 act that caused all this uproar.

if i ever get it i'll be happy. if not, i'll live.

You'll get it back 100%. I've been down this road before with Netteller. To these Poker sites reputation is the most important thing they have. Not paying is suicide for their
business. They will survive this and can survive without the US market. I also think poker will eventually be legal in this country.