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I think the government has a case here unfortunately. Even the larger poker sites would do things like charge strange increments ($50.37, $49.65 etc) instead of the $50 you deposited, to avoid being flagged by banks as a gambling site. Also they would use thousands of shell companies with non-descript names to appear on credit card statements. The biggest problem surely is that the US made laws against online gambling, and these sites did everything they could to keep letting players play and deposit. Surely they knew something was going to give eventually, and rolled the dice with it, not wanting to lose all that US revenue.. Likely they were hoping the laws would change before something like this actually happened.
This really sucks, I know a lot of people who work in the poker industry in las vegas, and FT and PS are always big sponsors as well as often being main clients producing many of the shows.. I hope this doesn't affect their ability to keep the TV money flowing.
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