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03-23-2007, 12:39 PM
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Planet Poker just threw in the towel
Just received this email from what was, once, the Party Poker of it's time: "After 9 years in business, Planet Poker has made the difficult decision to cease real money operations. Management regrets this decision but the impact of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act in the U.S. leaves no reasonable alternative. During the past several months, Planet Poker explored every reasonable option to continue real money operations. This included working with other cardrooms and ecommerce processors to find solutions to the issues existing in the industry today. Unfortunately, no viable solution surfaced. As always, your funds are safe and secure at Planet Poker. We are pleased to announce that we have made arrangements to allow players to transfer remaining funds from Planet Poker to another cardroom. Please sign into Planet Poker and select the "Transfer Now" button to start the transfer process. Alternatively, you may elect to cashout remaining funds via the Cashier page. Real money tables and tournaments will continue at Planet Poker through to 31 March 2007, but effective immediately you can no longer make a deposit. Please click here for complete information regarding this announcement. Thank you for your support during the past 9 years. We recommend that you transfer your funds to another cardroom so you can continue to play for real money. Planet Poker will continue to offer you the best "Play for fun" poker on the internet and hope to see you frequently at our tables. We hope to return to real money operations when the legal climate is clearer. We wish you the best of luck and hope your online poker playing continues to be enjoyable. Planet Poker Management" 
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#3
03-23-2007, 01:05 PM
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Re: Planet Poker just threw in the towel
What will happen to my 9000 planet points?
[img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img] Sad. Might make an interesting study in how not to let your business prosper.
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#4
03-23-2007, 01:21 PM
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Re: Planet Poker just threw in the towel
My first poker site [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]
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#6
03-23-2007, 01:59 PM
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Re: Planet Poker just threw in the towel
So no more real money for everyone, correct? Not just US players. This is really sad, seriously. I used to play at Planet Poker and Poker.com (the real poker.com that a lot of you dont remember) a lot. I'm gonna miss you Plantet. RIP
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#7
03-23-2007, 02:00 PM
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Re: Planet Poker just threw in the towel
<i>As always, your funds are safe and secure at Planet Poker. We are pleased to announce that we have made arrangements to allow players to transfer remaining funds from Planet Poker to another cardroom. Please sign into Planet Poker and select the "Transfer Now" button to start the transfer process. Alternatively, you may elect to cashout remaining funds via the Cashier page.</i>
It's Bodog and the transfer gets you a 10% bonus.
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#8
03-23-2007, 07:06 PM
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Re: Planet Poker just threw in the towel
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Poker.com (the real poker.com that a lot of you dont remember) a lot. [/ QUOTE ] I remember the software just stopped working one day. I remember having a terrible time at Omaha hi/lo the night before going from $400 to $50 bankroll (it was alot at the time). I was very upset. Next day the software stopped working and never got up and running again. Someone "hijacked" the domain name, I don't understand everything, but never saw a cent afterwards. Poker.com Inc continues fight over ‘hijacked’ URL(2003)
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#9
03-23-2007, 03:19 PM
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Re: Planet Poker just threw in the towel
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The 1st big poker site until someone hacked it and could read cards. They never recovered. [/ QUOTE ] Here's a link to the RNG-hacking story (written by the "hackers" themselves, who turned out to have benign rather than malicious motives) -- prob one of the coolest stories a good chunk of the poker-playing public still doesn't know about.
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#10
03-23-2007, 08:11 PM
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Re: Planet Poker just threw in the towel
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[ QUOTE ] The 1st big poker site until someone hacked it and could read cards. They never recovered. [/ QUOTE ] Here's a link to the RNG-hacking story (written by the "hackers" themselves, who turned out to have benign rather than malicious motives) -- prob one of the coolest stories a good chunk of the poker-playing public still doesn't know about. [/ QUOTE ] Wow. Great story. I'm surprised I had never heard of this until now.
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