Paradise poker chairman detained in U.S.

[byronkincaid]

BPL accepts American customers but APAT doesn't right?

Did anyone see that program about rape in American prisons the other week? After watching 10 minutes of it I turned it off and decided never ever to break a US law that they could put me away for.

Perhaps it might turn out that DC did a clever thing getting out of BPL? Hope Tikay won't be there bent over in a Vegas prison thinking FFS if only I hadn't let Brian have an account on Blonde... 

[marcro]

BPL accepts American customers but APAT doesn't right?

Did anyone see that program about rape in American prisons the other week? After watching 10 minutes of it I turned it off and decided never ever to break a US law that they could put me away for.

Perhaps it might turn out that DC did a clever thing getting out of BPL? Hope Tikay won't be there bent over in a Vegas prison thinking FFS if only I hadn't let Brian have an account on Blonde... 

lol - maybe this is why Tikay gave the WSOP a miss?

[tikay]

is it still safe to keep funds in paradise poker?

In my opinion, as safe as houses.

[tikay]

BPL accepts American customers but APAT doesn't right?

Did anyone see that program about rape in American prisons the other week? After watching 10 minutes of it I turned it off and decided never ever to break a US law that they could put me away for.

Perhaps it might turn out that DC did a clever thing getting out of BPL? Hope Tikay won't be there bent over in a Vegas prison thinking FFS if only I hadn't let Brian have an account on Blonde... 

lol - maybe this is why Tikay gave the WSOP a miss?

Rumbled. Bugger.

[totalise]

Tikay,

why are you so confident about that? From what I can see, the last company to do this was BetonSports, and they still have a lot of client balances locked up whilst they sort it out, and the fundamentals are pretty much the same (poker room with a sportsbook that accepts US clients) so I wonder what seperates this incident from the BoS one

[tikay]

Tikay,

why are you so confident about that? From what I can see, the last company to do this was BetonSports, and they still have a lot of client balances locked up whilst they sort it out, and the fundamentals are pretty much the same (poker room with a sportsbook that accepts US clients) so I wonder what seperates this incident from the BoS one

I don't think the fundamentals are similar.

The BoS affair would seem, on the face of it, to be a reasonable case for being suspicious, given the history of certain individuals at the top of the organisation.

[totalise]

ok thanks

I hope you are right, dise is a pretty big player in the poker market, would be a disaster if that got shut-down!

[Nem]

Were BoS on the Prima network?

[totalise]

tribeca

[tikay]

ok thanks

I hope you are right, dise is a pretty big player in the poker market, would be a disaster if that got shut-down!

I see absolutely no prospect of that, whatsoever. Just my opinion, mind.

My views on the Online Poker Industry have remain unchanged fior some time now, being.......

Don't buy Shares in Party Poker. The price was a lot higher at the time than it is now. The founding shareholders cashed in a large tranche of shares shortly before the price fell sharply. They must have got well lucky, eh?

Beware of & avoid small sites making "too good to believe" Sign-Up Bonuses & Rakeback offers. The music has to stop eventually, & when it does, many of these sites will fold. They have to run faster & faster to stand still, so offer bigger & bigger Bouses to try & maintain adequate liquidity. Eventually, it catches up with them.

Remember, in business, Simple is best. PokerStars, for example, must be prime examples of this, & they are a classic business model. Simple, straighforward, what you see is what you get, & the best Customer Support in the Industry by a country mile. Compare that to some of the bizarrely complex schemes some sites employ to get you to sign up.

[doubleup]

This arrest is an interesting turn of events mainly because (according to the BBC http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/5326602.stm ) Mr Dick has been charged with "gambling by computer" and fellow directors apparently have warrants against them.  The previous case concerned telephone bets and the Wire Act, so this charge is new territory. 

If the bizarre charge of gambling by computer is in fact a crime, we then move into a nightmare scenario for Mr Dicks's fellow directors - they have been running an enterprise based on the proceeds of criminal dollars.  Under our one-sided treaty - this would be ample grounds for extradition

The political stink over an extradition would surely be enormous - the UK govt has been trying to lure gaming companies to the UK as the Gambling Act will offer licenses and regulation!!!  What are these licenses worth if the US can extradite senior employees and even perhaps shareholders?