I've read nothing about this, but there's almost no way Party will reenter the US market unless online poker becomes explicitly legal.

Party is a publicly traded company, and cannot risk blatantly ignoring U.S. law like that.

There's no reason to even try...

Certainly the traffic would have hit Party badly but companies do not profit from trying to change a Countries legislation - it is too expensive and is unlikely to work.

Pokerstrars has been hit very hard with the Neteller things - I'm not sure that after that there won't be people in PS seriously asking about withdrawal from a high risk market.

Bottom line is that there is now more reason to leave the US alone and pursue other undevleoped countries.


Its interesting at Party at the moment - its basically turned into the B2B network (full of Swedes and Germans). No company likes losing a major secotr of the market - but it happens all the time and Party will continue to be successful without the USA

Originally Posted by c0l0rad0

In my opinion, america will try and find a few players and sites to make a media circus of. The point will be to scare the bejesus out of players in America.

I don't think they will go after players, only banks and sites that enable transactions.

The way the original Wire Act as well as the latest Enforcement Act are written, it is expressly forbidden to facilitate money transfers, but not to actually place the wager.

It should also be noted that it is mainly sports betting that they've cracked down on, as the language in the Acts singles this action out. Poker is still a gray area, and the DOJ wouldn't want to have a defense successfully challenge this for poker specifically. There's enough for the govt to choose from on just sports betting.