'Black Friday' and associated fallout megathread

[larrdawg69]

Considering there basically is only a few sites left for U.S. to play, why wouldn't the doj\gov just wait a little while U.S. players build rolls there and do the exact same thing?

 

[absoluthamm]

Pop-up on Stars:

Important Notice from PokerStars

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Please be assured player balances are safe. There is no cause for concern. For all customers outside the US it is business as usual.

The Pokerstars website has been moved to www.pokerstars.eu, and our Support email address is now support@pokerstars.eu. We apologise to our players for any inconvenience caused by this disruption.

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So I've gotten my withdrawal from Stars and UB, but still can't get the damn Tilt one up...

 

[suit2please]

How crucial is the US poker playing base to the long term viability of site's like Stars & FT, do you think? Would the current non-US traffic be able to support anything close to # of current online pro's that there are?

Simple answer, NO. (To the 2nd question)

But it depends. How many of those pro's were US based? And how many of the regular depositing fish were US based?

 

[LuckyChippy]

Party is the new king of poker. All hail the king.

(poolparty)

 

[isaac]

Party is the new king of poker. All hail the king.

(poolparty)

poolpparty ftw

 

[deucem]

Full Tilt and pokerstars shot themselves in the foot when they called the FBI about Daniel Tzvetkoff.

you can read about it here:

http://www.couriermail.com.au/ipad/web-kings-life-on-the-line/story-fn6ck45n-1226039907165

 

[Marginal]

(flag:TT)

 

[PC69]

Where can I stand in the line to punch someone in the legislations face in? There has to b a line somewhere by now.

 

[Pokertron3000]

Yeah, best thing to do now is withdraw from pokerstars if you're from the UK.

I had a feeling this was going to happen though.

Not caught up yet with thread, but Ram think your being paranoid dude, stars is based in the Isle of Man. Its not a part of America, its not even a part of the uk really. They have their own thing going on. If your not American keep on keeping on. The only people we have to worry about is our US friends, if we can get a cards chat thing where we can help our US friends by signing anything it whatever lets focus on what we can do for them. We are lucky we dont even have to pay taxes on our winnings or whatever lets focus on the real problem here. We are pretty much safe until our government says otherwise.

 

[LuckyChippy]

((dance))

 

[rowhousepd]

How stupid would it be to reload my inactive Carbon account with just a little $ to grind with? You know, to combat serious poker withdrawal ... which has already set in.

 

[rowhousepd]

I bet if I tried to deposit into my account, it would take 10 seconds.

 

[suit2please]

Looks like Comcasts DNS servers were finally updated, one minute I could see my promo page, the next I couldn't.

 

[Marginal]

((surprisebuttsex))


This aint skype but you obv see our effort to lighten up the situation. There is only 1 thing to fair at this point and it is too far from sight for us to say if it really matters. Just wait for it to play out

 

[cardriverx]

I'm gonnna chill. It might take 2-3 months (hopefully not), but we will all (Most likely) get our money back.

It'll be a tough choice if US players are somehow still allowed to play. I might still just withdraw everything and quit.

 

[Pothole]

Not caught up yet with thread, but Ram think your being paranoid dude, stars is based in the Isle of Man. Its not a part of America, its not even a part of the uk really. They have their own thing going on. If your not American keep on keeping on. The only people we have to worry about is our US friends, if we can get a cards chat thing where we can help our US friends by signing anything it whatever lets focus on what we can do for them. We are lucky we dont even have to pay taxes on our winnings or whatever lets focus on the real problem here. We are pretty much safe until our government says otherwise.

PS has 3 US servers, as they are quoting "money laundering" and "fraud" as part of their criminal case. Every transaction, irrespective of country of origin, is a suspect. Seeing as the US Gov has been "inspecting" the effects of LSD and Weed since the mid 50's ( even though they invented LSD ), expect to be in a nursing home by the time you get your funds back. BTW, alcohol, a gun and the right to smoke cigarettes are all approved by the US GOV. All will kill you, but that's just profit for the machine.

 

[dmorris68]

So... paranoid guy that I am, and since it was the vast bulk of my BR, I cashed out my entire Merge BR. Then realized I had $40 worth of VIP points that I forgot to redeem first (only 1/50 of the BR, but still). So I redeem the VIP for $$$ and figure I'd see how far $40 would take me. Within 20 minutes I've doubled it, lol. Watch me build it back up to 2K and the next day the DOJ seizes all Merge skins. Oh well, I'll consider it freerollin'

 

[NineLions]

Just registered for a 3.30 tournament, $6,000 guaranteed, but it's rebuy. 190 entries so far.

Beat: Playing 'cause I thought there would be a good overlay, but 517 entries and 972 rebuys already. Maybe the non-US players all had the same idea?

Brag: Sitting 8 of 352 remaining.

Beat: Not enjoying it. Reminds me why I don't play these thing to begin with

 

[DetroitJimmy]

Where can I stand in the line to punch someone in the legislations face in? There has to b a line somewhere by now.

Just stand behind me. Only 45,641 people in front of us.

 

[dmorris68]

Just stand behind me. Only 45,641 people in front of us.

I'd put the number slightly higher. >10M in fact, going by the last number of US online poker players I saw.

 

[dufferdevon]

And now all the online coaching sites are scrambling to upload live 1/2NL strategy videos before they lose all their students.

 

[atlantafalcons0]

full tilt's still working fine for me.

 

[Dreams of Tragedy]

well after 15 days of not playing i wanted to play and well guess what!!!

I'm packing my s%$# up now, I'm going to canada!!!!

 

[PC69]

Beat: Playing 'cause I thought there would be a good overlay, but 517 entries and 972 rebuys already. Maybe the non-US players all had the same idea?

Brag: Sitting 8 of 352 remaining.

Beat: Not enjoying it. Reminds me why I don't play these thing to begin with

k7 was ugly GL dude.

 

[kidkvno1]

Just registered for a 3.30 tournament, $6,000 guaranteed, but it's rebuy. 190 entries so far.

^^^ Can we ban peeps for posting this??? It's rubbing it in!!!!

In the US, most people load a gun ( legally ) before they can buy a beer. But you can't play poker.

I am about to get a gun, so poker worked for something..

Where can I stand in the line to punch someone in the legislations face in? There has to b a line somewhere by now.

DOJ would be the line to punch someone in the face.

And now all the online coaching sites are scrambling to upload live 1/2NL strategy videos before they lose all their students.

Takes more peeps out of a job.


The same thing they did i see it everyday on other sites, they are still running.