Particularly persistent is the misconception that online poker is illegal at the federal level. But the lingering chaos of that time remains. The last of these prosecutions came to a head this year, tying that story up in a neat bow. Overseas sites jettisoned wholesale any payment processor with a U.S. online poker market and strung the viscera as a warning to others.
With dizzying speed, the DOJ gutted the U.S. The prosecutions that followed for violations of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act were high-profile. Department of Justice confiscated the URLs of the accused companies and served arrest warrants to a dozen or so industry execs. online poker has been encased in layers of legal obscurity.įor anyone too young to remember, Black Friday refers to Apwhen the U.S. Since Black Friday’s intensive restructuring of FullTilt, PokerStars, et al.
