The company has been accused of processing more than $100 million in sportsbets to US players from 2006 – 2012. The Feds had undercover agents create Bodog accounts, deposit and cashout from Maryland, USA. Tip offs from an employee gave Feds further insight on how the business operated and who the directors of the company were.
Calvin Ayre and three other Canadians were also indicted James Philip, David Ferguson and Derrick Maloney.
The network which operates more than 100 poker skins had approximately 20% of it’s traffic based in the US, PokerScout reported that the network has suffered a 12% decline in traffic since stopping it’s operations in the US on 10th February 2012.
In a recent statement Everleaf Gaming says it’s business as usual, as it continues to offer it’s services worldwide, excluding the United States and France.
Mitt Romney, is a Mormon, in keeping with his religious line is expected to follow the Church of Latter Day Saints which bans gambling, alcohol and even coffee leaving us poker players with little chance of ever seeing online poker legalized in the USA with him in charge of the White House.
Newt Gingrich, while not making his stance on the legislation of online poker known as of yet has strong ties to Casino boss and online gaming opponent Sheldon Adelson who has contributed over $10 million to date to Republican Presidential candidate Newt Gingrich’s campaign.
Rick Santorum is another not in favor with online poker, he was quoted as saying: “I’m someone who takes the opinion that gaming is not something that is beneficial, particularly having that access on the internet. Just like we’ve seen from a lot of other things that are ‘vices,’ they tend to grow exponentially as a result of that. It’s one thing to come to Las Vegas and do gaming and participate in the shows and entertainment and that kind of thing. It’s another thing to be able to sit in your home and have access to that. I just think it would be dangerous for our country.”
Santorum went on to say: “There are certain things that do cost people a lot of money, cost them their lives, [and] cost them their fortunes that we shouldn’t have available. That’s why we regulate gaming. You have a big commission [in Nevada] that regulates gambling, for a reason. We don’t have it everywhere. I for one don’t think it’s a good thing. A lot of people don’t responsibly gamble and lose a lot and end up in not such great economic straits as a result of that.”
Ron Paul supports online poker legislation and has been a co-sponsor of several pro-online poker bills, including Congressman Joe Barton’s HR 2366, which sets up a framework to legalize and regulate internet poker in the United States. Paul is one of 27 co-sponsors of the bipartisan bill, which was introduced last June but has not found its way out of committee.
Ron Paul advocates freedom and the right for people to spend their hard earned money as they please.
The 2012 World Poker Tour stops off in Vejle, Denmark for the WPT National Series Denmark with the main event taking place between 28th February – 3rd March 2012. PartyPoker being the official sponsor of the World Poker Tour are offering players a chance to win a WPT prize package worth $3,500 for free in the daily online poker freerolls.
Recently Party Poker acquired their Danish gaming license which allows them to offer legal online poker, online casino games and sportsbook in Denmark.
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Full Tilt Poker looks set to make a comeback deal with Groupe Bernard Tapie taking over command of the once so popular poker room, the deal which has the approval of the DOJ will include paying all outstanding players worldwide that have money suspended in their Full Tilt player accounts.
Although exact details of the deal have not been fully disclosed to date, Managing Director of Groupe Bernard Tapie, Laurent Tapie has confirmed that “payment terms are defined” and that he expects an agreement to be drafted and signed within the next two weeks.
