I can't stop playing this when I watch youtube vids now, click on a video, then pause the video. Hold the left Arrow until you see the snake on the vid. Let go of left arrow and now you can play the snake game using the arrow keys while watching the vid.
Federal prosecutors are again indicating they mean business in going after the online poker business. Their strategy is focused on the industry's payment processors, the folks who move the money among players, banks and poker companies.
The U.S. Attorney in Manhattan struck a big blow on Tuesday by getting Douglas Rennick, 35, a Canadian payment processor, to show up in New York and plead guilty to violating the Wire Act by processing more than US$350-million in the U.S. for Internet poker companies and other online gaming firms.
The plea deal hits the biggest online poker companies offering U.S. play, PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker. Rennick agreed to forfeit US$583-million, funds that partly belonged to players of those and other companies. PokerStars and Full Tilt reimbursed the players after federal prosecutors froze funds handled by Rennick in June 2009.
Rennick faces 12 months in prison and is slated to be sentenced in September. A spokesperson for the U.S. Attorney in Manhattan declined to comment on whether Rennick is cooperating with any ongoing investigation. Rennick's plea agreement only says it is conditional on "subsequent conduct prior to the imposition of sentence." The question is whether Rennick's plea deal is part of a prosecutorial strategy that is going after only payment processors, or the online poker companies as well.
As Forbes pointed out in February, the owners and operators of the biggest online poker firms are an open secret -- and many of them can be found regularly playing poker in Las Vegas or promoting their companies at U.S. events shown on television.
The U.S. online poker industry services 2.5 million Americans who play and bet US$30-billion annually. Since PartyGaming exited the U.S. online poker market, it has been dominated by PokerStars and Full Tilt, a company associated with famous poker players like Howard Lederer and Christopher Ferguson.
The online poker firms take the position that online poker does not violate any U.S. laws, but the Justice Department has consistently said that facilitating for-money online poker is illegal. Speculation that the Obama administration's Justice Department would not pursue online poker cases as aggressively as was the case during the Bush administration appears to be receding.
Still, U.S. law is vague enough on the issue of online poker that the Justice Department has appeared reluctant to confront online poker firms directly and in court. Federal prosecutors have been much more comfortable going after payment processors. In April Daniel Tzvetkoff, the Australian owner of another payment processor used by online gaming firms, was arrested in Las Vegas and charged by federal prosecutors of bank fraud and money laundering.
Rennick's legal problems began last June when the U.S. Attorney in Manhattan froze US$34-million owed to at least 14,000 players from companies that processed payments for poker games hosted by Full Tilt and PokerStars, which both reimbursed its players. The companies targeted in the seizures included Rennick's Account Services Corporation, which had US$16.3 million in an account at Wells Fargo frozen. Rennick tried to contest the seizures in federal court in San Diego with the support of the Poker Players Alliance, a Washington, D.C., lobbying group whose chairman is Alfonse D'Amato, but Rennick was indicted by federal prosecutors shortly afterwards. Rennick is forfeiting the frozen funds as part of his plea deal.
Stupid arab noobs are now buying gold coins from vending machines with cash. I can't only imagine how much of a rip off price they used and worse wtf are you even supposed to do with a gold coin, melt it?
Stupid arab noobs are now buying gold coins from vending machines with cash. I can't only imagine how much of a rip off price they used and worse wtf are you even supposed to do with a gold coin, melt it?
Anyone know Isildurs other screen names on Ipoker/Partypoker/betfair or any other site? I am mainly looking for his present Partypoker but all would be nice
On facebook if you search Four Aces Poker you will see a new cardroom outside of Montreal. They are hosting a tourny that tourny April 16, has anyone been to this cardroom yet? What kind of stakes they have?
So if you google floribus you come up with a site that says it has a build for an AI that can 24 table. Never heard of it but i wonder if it is just like that guy who was selling "holecard revealers" for like $500, now they have this program for $280 that plays for you. I don't know if the site is virus ridden or not so search at own risk. If anyone knows more about this discuss.
(I found out about it from comments in PTR talking about their new Premium)
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