Poker Stars remains open for players from the U.S.
Poker Stars Poker Stars, the second most popular poker rooms in the U.S. to PartyPoker, has sent a message announced that all players and partners certainly very happy to hear. Poker Stars has decided the general trend in the online game industry players from the United States no longer prepared to accept, not to follow and is in contrast to some of the other major online poker providers, in the future your services for residents of the United States fully.
The last weeks have been for the online gaming industry is very turbulent due to the fact that the “Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006″ by the U.S. Senate as legally declared. The large Manufacturer PartyGaming (Party Poker) and 888 Holdings (Pacific Poker) have responded immediately and have all players from the U.S. Presses, leading to a fall in share prices of both companies and led both PartyPoker, as well as at Pacific Poker a significant financial damage caused. The reason was that both companies can not by any laws in conflict, officially because companies are publicly traded and your shareholders are committed.
Poker Stars has no such commitments, as the majority shares of the mining licence from Israel include family and the remaining shares in the hands of poker stars employees. Poker Stars a few months ago was the object of some speculation, as was thinking was to go to the stock market and a possible relocation of the headquarters to the Isle of Man was planned. But nothing of the sort has happened.
The legal situation is very unclear, because the final legal text was not yet published, and also possibly in the next 9 months will not be published. Just because some of the “Great” in the online gaming industry is very calm and go directly to the bill have responded, does not necessarily mean that this behavior was correct.
Poker Stars probably has his own opinion about this and has in a letter to his players below:
Dear Poker Stars players,
As you probably know, the U.S. Congress adopted a new law (the Safe Port Act), which impact on gambling on the Internet.
Poker Stars has regarding the legal implications of respected legal experts from both inside and outside the U.S. advice. The result was that this legislative amendment for Poker Stars no impact on our current business in the United States.
Therefore, as our business continues as before - open to all players worldwide including the U.S.. You can probably on our side as well continue, as you are against this bill usual.
Poker Stars believes that a game of poker’s skill. Millions of people around the world play this game and we have decided these players a safe to offer a platform on which you continue to play online poker. We know their loyalty to poker stars to appreciate and will continue to strive to you with online poker by storm offering, with the same excellent quality that we in the last 5 years, while a total of 6 billion hands and 40 million tournaments offered.
Poker Stars Management
A light on the horizon for all Americans, who are due to the new law had loose so in the future to your hobby to do and no more online poker play. Meanwhile, some players from England already glister that it would be great if the players from the U.S. is again allowed to play online poker, then finally as a lot of “fish” sit at the tables.