美國online poker 暫時滅亡了 - 撲克牌

※ 引述《lvlonster (怪獸)》之銘言：
: We are sorry but, due to government regulations, playing real money tournament
: is not allowed in your area...
: We are sorry but, due to government regulations, playing real money ring game
: is not allowed in your area...
: gg...


http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2014787436_poker16.html

3 biggest online poker sites indicted, shut down by FBI

NEW YORK — The founders of the three largest online poker sites were
indicted by the FBI on Friday in what could serve as a death blow to the
thriving industry.

Eleven executives at PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker and Absolute Poker were
charged with bank fraud and money laundering in an indictment unsealed in a
Manhattan court. Two of the executives were arrested on Friday morning in
Utah and Nevada. Federal agents are searching for the others.

Prosecutors are seeking to shut down the sites and eventually to send the
executives to jail and to recover $3 billion from the companies. By Friday
afternoon Full Tilt Poker's site displayed a message explaining that "this
domain name has been seized by the F.B.I. pursuant to an Arrest Warrant."

The online gambling industry has taken off over the last decade, drawing an
estimated 15 million Americans to bet online.

In 2006 Congress passed a law prohibiting online gambling. Most of the
leading sites found ways to work around the law using foreign banks, but
prosecutors allege that in doing so they broke the law.

"These defendants concocted an elaborate criminal fraud scheme, alternately
tricking some U.S. banks and effectively bribing others to assure the
continued flow of billions in illegal gambling profits," Preet Bharara, the
U.S. attorney in Manhattan, said in a statement.

Poker fans took to Twitter in droves, worried about the money in their online
gaming accounts, fretting that online poker's days were at an end.

"Well the good news is I think I only had about $300 left on the online poker
sites overall," tweeted Jimi Schindler of Madison, Wis. "Maybe I'll see that
money?!!?"

我Con law 念到一半剛好看到
完全就是一個超棒的考試題目.....
anyway
看來有一陣子不能玩了
不過話說DC剛通過網路賭博合法化


http://www.newsfactor.com/news/Net-Gambling-Gets-Green-Light-in-D-C-/story.xhtml?story_id=033003QUFH2I&full_skip=1

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