[BluffTHIS!]

My money says that Mitch Garber/Party Gaming, is behind this [censored]. Party's strategy is to harm the privately held concerns still in the US market and lump them in with them. Party loses competively when Stars has the US market as a cash cow to fund competition with Party in Euroland and elsewhere. If Party can't regain access to the US market, the last thing they want is for other foreign concerns to have that access. And the stuff about stars (or any poker only site) being at the top of the DoJ's list of "rogue operators" is ridiculous. Every sports betting site on the net is ahead of any poker site not affilitated with a sports book, and casino sites are next.

If the management of Party Gaming had any balls or sense, they would do a LBO and re-enter the US market as a privately held corporation.