Paradise Blocks A Few States Today

[SlewDog]

Starting today (10/12) Paradise Poker has blocked players that are in states that already have laws concerning online poker. Those states are:
Utah
Hawaii
Michigan
Indiana
Oregon
Nevada
Washington
Illinois
Louisiana
South Dakota

Paradise is letting affected players cash out.

Here is the announcement:

http://www.paradisepoker.com/news/us_legislation.html

[permafrost]

And they blocked all US players from depositing and transferring.

[Victor]

paradise was my first fling. tears to my eyes.

[okietalker]

Oh well I hated the site anyways

[hotbacon]

Don't care, stars is in.

[Nate tha\\\' Great]

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showfl...=22#Post7493312

"Party Poker will operate as much as possible in business-as-usual, "buyer beware" mode, perhaps taking some smaller steps like preventing US players from playing their casino games or closing off certain funding routes like IGMPay.

PokerStars will be the most proactive site in pursuing legal strategies against the legislation, and will offer deposit and cashout options to US players in accordance with the opinion of their lawyers.

888.com will stop accepting US players and will do so relatively soon.

Full Tilt will develop some funky new payment mechanism which might or might not be legal.

Paradise Poker will differentiate based on the state of residence of the US player.

Ultimate Bet will go bankrupt or become an acqusition target for a larger site.

Bodog will do something incredibly brash and stupid, get the pants sued off of them, and ruin it for everyone else. "

[The_Scout]

As I read it, there are three major parts to this announcement:

-- No new deposits or transfers from Americans.

-- Players from the listed states are kicked off immediately.

-- All remaining Americans will no longer be able to play as of Nov. 13.

So in other words, Paradise is pulling out.

[Sniper]

Also, US players not from the listed states, with funds already on deposit, will have only another month to play there (but not in the casino or sportsbook)...

"Although we will no longer be able to accept additional deposits, players will continue to be able to play at our real money tables with the funds they already have on deposit at Paradise until November 13th 2006."

[Nate tha\\\' Great]

[ QUOTE ]
As I read it, there are three major parts to this announcement:

-- No new deposits or transfers from Americans.

-- Players from the listed states are kicked off immediately.

-- All remaining Americans will no longer be able to play as of Nov. 13.

So in other words, Paradise is pulling out.

[/ QUOTE ]

Read their whole announcement and you are right. Paradise is out.

[permafrost]

I just deposited as a test and it worked; wouldn't let me play though. Probably starts tomorrow for deposit block.