Apparently, the sky just fell...

[Windbreaker]

I wonder if Stars will allow you to play out of the country. If you could....then you could just take a trip to Canada/Mexico and grind out enough to get your next milestone+fpp bonus.

[Talking Poker]

Yeah, I was wondering about this myself...

The rumors are just flying around right now like mad - don't really know what to believe.

I converted all my FT Iron Man medals to tourney tickets (almost $4k worth), thinking it is more likely those will get paid out (if anything does) than the medals themselves. Other than that though, I'm not sure what all can be done on an individual basis, other than contacting Congressmen and pushing for legalized/regulated online poker, obv.

[Gordogg]

They targeted only the biggest sites. Do you think sites like Cake Poker will see an increase in traffic and they will accomodate or will they puss out?

[Gordogg]

I just deposited $25 on Cake with my visa debit card no problem.

[Robbr25]

Did anyone try to take money out today from PokerStars ?

[Kurn]

Any non US players interested in a small 'Stars -> Cake swap?

[Talking Poker]

I got a call from Stars this morning.

I talked to one of their VIP Managers for a good 10 minutes, and he was very friendly and sympathetic, but also a but uncomfortable - at least that was my read.

He did his best to answer all of my questions, but there are obviously a lot of unknowns. According to him though:

-Money is safe
-Stars will continue to operate outside the USA
-No timelines
-He suspects VPPs/FPPs will be prorated based on their value
-He noted my concerns aout money transfers to/from staked players
-I can't just fly to Canada for the weekend and play from a non-USA IP address... I need to establish residency with an ID (I think) and definitely a utility bill of some sort

Pretty much everything I expected, but I was still glad they called.

[sjay2k]

No offence, but this isn't really a reasonable request right now, given the likelihood that Stars cashouts get frozen and/or international transfers get reversed.

[stormswa]

kinda knew this was coming, maybe not to this degree but something like this.

A friend of mine put on a good chunk of money a while back, like a couple months ago. He ended up going on a bad run and lost his deposit, he went and checked his bank account like a month later and noticed that they did not take the money out of his account. He emailed them and they said they were having issues and would take it out, needless to say 2 months later they still had not taken the money. After 3 months he closed the account and opened a new one because he didnt want to forget the money was there and accidently spend it then have them take it out and overdraw his account.

Their processors have been pulling away from them for months it seems.

[Reel Deal]

Can't even get the FT client to launch... says there's a software update and then a pop-up says can't download update try again later. Fuck.