27.000 poker players accounts frozen in USA

Philippe Baret & Haley Hintze administration Obama for online poker? Here is the answer. 33.000 More $ have been temporarily blocked on 27.000 bank accounts of poker players in the United States by the Ministry of justice. The procedure has been taken of cheques received during a week by some players between late May and early June 2009. Three banks, including the Citibank are affected by the Government action.

This is announced Tuesday, June 9 American lobby poker player Alliance in a release contesting the légalite of the measure taken by the Government of the United States. Affected players are clients of four poker online, including the leaders of the market PokerStars and full tilt poker rooms. These last have put in place alternative processes of payment that is the first time in the USA that the Government supports coercive measures against operators offering that poker online, considered by public authorities as illegal on American soil. Previous public actions against related to the gambling online operators had concerned the NETeller electronic portfolio in 2007, the party gaming (casinos, sports betting and poker) games operator and its Anurag Dikshit co-founder in 2006. PartyGaming since signed an agreement in April 2009 with American justice for the payment of a fine of a motant 105 million dollars in exchange for the abandonment of prosecution.

The poker player Alliance (PPP), chaired by the former Senator Alfonse D'Amato and especially directed group by professional poker players (Greg Raymer to Pokerstars, Chris Ferguson) and Howard Lederer for full tilt announces release as wanting to enter justice against the American Government. The PPP is queries on the legality of such coercive actions against not only the online poker that do would be not framed clearly by American law but isolated gaming operators direct unrelated individuals also. According to the PPP, no court of justice in the United States does has deemed contrary to the law a process of payment or online poker site access to a player.