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[QUOTE="RaisingYa, post: 2210280, member: 101000"]
The best thing to do is search black Friday for poker on google for information on this.  Basically Pokerstars and Fulltilt were shut down by the Department of Justice in the US.  Both sites were fully involved in the American market but the Doj siezed the IP address and forced them out.  Everyone who had money in the sites cannot get it out becuase the government will not allow it.  Pokerstars recently struck a deal with the Doj to buy full tilt poker and pay back all the US players the funds that were not payed back when the sites were shut down.  In doing this Pokerstars makes a good step to being allowed back into the US.

The other sites are allowing US players play but against US law.  It is condsidered unlawful for the webiste to accept bets over the internet.  The sites are most likely allowed to continue since there are so many small ones that the government doesn't care to keep track of them.  Considering most o the site only have like 5k people online at a time compared to 1 to 200k that pokerstars and fulltilt had when they were in full force.
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