Leslie Radue

No major changes thus far in regard to the USA poker ban with all the big rooms still closed to the US market but some rather interesting developments have evolved during the course of this week.

UB/AP have now reached an agreement with the US government in which the US Attorney’s Office has agreed to provide all necessary assurances that third parties may work with Absolute Poker to facilitate the return of funds, currently held by third party processors, to players located in the US. However many in the know are somewhat skeptical that UB/AP have enough funds to make the payments to all their US based players.

US Attorney Preet Bharara confirmed that an agreement had been struck between the US government and Absolute Poker “Absolute Poker of Costa Rica agreed to return funds owed to U.S. customers and prohibit deposits of American players.”

Absolute Poker has not requested the return of their seized domain names in www.absolutepoker.com, www.ultimatebet.com or www.ub.com. Both Pokerstars and FullTilt Poker were returned their .com domain names as part of the deal with the US DOJ.

After nearly a month since the US poker ban known as “Black Friday”, FullTilt Poker and UB/Absolute Poker are in the same position since the USA poker room closures in that neither of them offer their gaming services to the US market and both sites have failed to repay their US players their outstanding balances to date.

PokerStars on the other hand seem to be rapidly gaining trust amongst non-US players as they have overcome the payment hurdle, the main reason they could do so is because the player funds are held separately from the main PokerStars account which is enforced by their licensing agreement with the Isle of Man as such PokerStars have already begun paying back the owed money to their former US players.

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Carbon Poker is offering $40,000 a month in freeroll tournaments, plus free entry using VIP points into the weekly Sunday $50,000 Guaranteed.

Daily CarbonPoker run 5 x $200 freerolls plus a weekly Sunday $50k Gtd. which can be entered into free by using player points.

First Time depositing players at Carbon receive a free coupon valid for 14 days entry into the $500 daily New Depositor Freerolls plus free entry into the New Depositor Cash Chase where players are awarded free cash according to how many points they earn in the first 30 days after making their first deposit at Carbon Poker.

Carbon Poker have remained open to USA real money players and continue to allow deposits and cashouts for Americans, we are sure in time CarbonPoker will grow to become one of the largest USA allowed poker rooms once the word gets out that they are trustworthy and allow US poker players. Carbon Poker Freeroll Tournaments provide great value as players can start playing poker with little to no bankroll.

Deposit at CarbonPoker and get 300% bonus up to $600, Carbon Poker minimum deposit $10. Carbon Poker is now the largest USA online poker site since the US Poker ban.

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The recent closure of three of the top online poker rooms has really spun up the poker world with poker affiliate websites having to cut their losses from years’ worth of US player revenue from the former open to USA poker room giant’s PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker and UB.

Poker affiliates will now be looking to promote brands that still permit Americans to play for real money on their sites, while these are few and far between there still are several options for Americans looking for real money poker sites that are still open to the USA, since April 2011’s doomsday.

Safest Poker Rooms Allowing USA players:

We have listed listed the safest poker rooms and most secure online poker sites that are still open to US poker players for real money play, while at the moment traffic at any of these rooms is really low if you compare them to the heyday of PokerStars but given a couple months they will continue to grow in traffic and size.

Merge Gaming Network

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Bodog Network

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Cake Network

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Great news for USA poker players, well sort of at least. PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker have re-acquired their .com domain names after having them controlled for the last few days by the DoJ, the bad news is that this still changes little in terms of US players being permitted to play at the popular online poker sites but it does help in allowing USA players to cashout their money. The remainder of the world will once again be able to use the .com site names to play.

The funny part is that PokerStars signups are actually up 20% over the past week; even accounting for Friday’s decision, showing that player confidence still remains high for the world’s largest online poker site. Full Tilt Poker, PokerStars and the U.S. Attorney’s office have all made recent statements regarding the USA poker ban and we cover which rooms are still allowing real money play for Americans.

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The land of the free, American poker players have once again been the target of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) with the closing of the most trusted internet poker sites namely PokerStars, FullTilt Poker and UB in the USA.

The Poker Players Alliance is not taking this issue of infringing on Americans right to play online poker lightly, the Poker Players Alliance (PPA) is a nonprofit membership organization comprised of poker players and enthusiasts from around the United States who have joined together to speak with one voice to promote the game and to protect poker players rights.

The PPA have released an email requesting that all poker players who feel that their right to play poker online has been violated should stand together and fight back as the action taken by the DOJ should be viewed as nothing less than a declaration of war against poker and the people who play the game, players need to inform U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder about their disappointment with his decision to shut down trusted Internet poker sites in the USA plus remind Congress and President Obama that now is the time to pass sensible legislation that licenses and regulates Internet poker in America.

The PPA have set up a webpage with detailed instructions on what action you as a poker player can take to voice your concerns. This issue will not simply resolve itself, now is the time to take action !

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