[DegenGambler]

Btw, I didn't mean to give a smart ass answer, but that is the likely result here. You are owed money under the terms of the agreement that you entered into by virtue of creating an account with these poker sites. However, in order to collect on this, as well as any other debt, you would have to sue the company. Practically speaking, there is no way this is going to happen unless you have a very, very large amount of money tied up in the account. It's just not financially feasible to sue on anything less than several thousand dollars. And even if you do sue, the likelihood of getting one of these defendant companies to appear in court and then pay the judgment against them (assuming you win) is pretty much non-existant. So they probably have an obligation to pay you, but it's just hard to collect.

There is another argument floating out there that doesn't make a whole lot of sense given the legal precedent. One (if this one was a poker site) may argue that because the substance of the underlying transaction is illegal (i.e. internet gambling), then any contract entered into with that illegality as the subject matter is void. Contracts that require illegal action are not real contracts, kind of like how you cannot sue a hitman for failing to follow through on a hit. However, US courts when given the chance have NOT found internet poker to be illegal, but have not made express findings (to the best of my knowledge) that say that internet gambling is legal. I can get into more of the facts about the cases that I've read on the subject, but that's just a word or 400 on the topic to start with.