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The UIGEA (Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act passed on Friday, October 13th prohibits US financial institutions from making transactions with “unlawful gambling” sites. Despite the fact that the definition of “unlawful gambling” does not include poker, many well established online poker rooms have all jumped ship and are no longer taking US poker players. If you are from Canada, Europe or anywhere but the US these sites are still open to you.

The current holdouts for Mac Poker Players are Full Tilt Poker, Bugsy’s Club and Games Grid

If you are a player outside the US, you have much greater options – see our Non-US sites under Poker Rooms – otherwise put your cash in one of these sites and feed on the fish fleeing the others.

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From Bugsy’s Club:

Regarding the recent bill passed regulating payments to online gaming sites-

Most important is that this bill does NOT make it illegal for individuals to play poker online.

The bill targets payment processors and US banks and is basically trying to make it difficult for online poker sites to allow their customers to fund their accounts (nothing new here really).

The bill does not take effect immediately. After the president signs the bill into law (if) (within the next 7-10 days), a government board will have 270 days to come up with new regulations for the banks and payment processors to follow. And even after the regulations are published they will likely not go into effect immediately, since the banks and payment processors will need time to add systems to comply with the new regulations. Smaller banks have already stated they would not even have the necessary resources in place to monitor such transactions.

We want you to know that we will continue doing business with our US customers. We are a legal and licensed business in the Netherlands Antilles and none of our operations are carried out on US soil. We have no intention of closing USA player accounts or restricting their ability to play on BugsysClub.

The World Trade Organization ruling brought by Antigua and Barbuda has repeatedly instructed the United States to stop trying to block US residents from playing at such operations while the US simultaneously favors certain US operations (such as horse betting, lottery etc).

I will personally update you with any updates to this situation if or when they occur.

Luck Bugsy