Interpoker done

bdawg31 · #1 10-03-06, 09:14 PM

I didn't see this posted anywhere else - if it is/was - please delete. I can not even access my Interpoker account. Told me to contact support - needless to say they have their live support disabled. So I emailed them - i am sure that considering they are probably getting a gazillion other emails i will hear from them right away.

lightfungus · #2 10-03-06, 09:19 PM

Did you have any money there?

Tony Cheval · #3 10-03-06, 09:20 PM

Same here. I didn't have any money in it, but the account is disabled.

Boobie Lover · #4 10-03-06, 09:20 PM

Interpoker = crypto skin. So...

bdawg31 · #5 10-03-06, 09:31 PM

Yeah, i had some money in there. TP had sent me an email and they say they will be refunding with checks. We will see.

bdawg31 · #6 10-04-06, 12:11 PM

I got this email in response:

Hello and thank you for contacting the Players Help support team.

We can confirm that US customers accounts have been closed due to new legislation passed in your country regarding online gambling. Furthermore, we can confirm that cheques will be sent out within the next 3-4 weeks. Should you have changed address we are asking you to kindly advise us.

Talking Poker · #7 10-04-06, 01:58 PM

I flat out DO NOT UNDERSTAND why these sites are reacting like this.

I mean, AT BEST, they should be questioning the law, or ignoring it since it doesn't affect THEM and only affects their players getting money to them from their bank. AT WORST, they should at least wait until the damn bill becomes a law. As of right now, today, nothing has changed in the U.S. anyway.

It's so ridiculous.

jillaj · #8 10-04-06, 05:23 PM

I can somewhat understand a publicly traded company being very cautious on this issue. However any privately owned poker site should rejoice at all the money they will pull in when people have to use their sites to play poker.

cdreef · #9 10-05-06, 02:02 AM

It is sooooo obvious what's happening:

I've read that several of the companies that own these poker sites have lost upwards of 60% of their value since Friday night. So next the government will do some research funded by some lobbying group affliated with an anonymous Nevada Corporation... hmmm.

Then when the studies indicate that poker is not a game of chance or something of that sort, Harrah's will have already purchased the majority of these hallowed out sites and Vegas gets all the online action it so desperately craved.

Big biz rules and the rest of us suffer. Same old story.

JDMcNugent7 · #10 10-05-06, 02:45 AM

ive been thinking there has to be something behind it all. and this does make sense.
i figured maybe party was plannin on selling itself to a US based business and therefore giving up very easily, which makes sense, but why all the other , smaller, sites too?