The story that has rocked the online gambling industry continues as the US Department of Justice (DoJ) announced their intention to return the seized domains to their owners. In a statement released yesterday, the DoJ added the purpose of returning the domains was that the poker operators would be able to return players funds.
This meant that even players in the United States are able to withdraw all of their funds from their poker accounts. However, as expected, they aren’t allowed to play for real money on the sites.
While this appeared to be good news for players with online accounts with the companies in question, confusion soon followed as Full Tilt Poker released as statement suggesting that this was not the case. The Full Tilt statement went on to say that a solution is far from being reached and that the DoJ weren’t allowing players to withdraw funds.
One of the instigators of the seizure, U.S Attorney for Southern New York Preet Bharara, commented that player accounts were never frozen or restrained and the poker companies in question have been “at all times free to reimburse any player’s deposited funds.”
Should this be true the poker companies are going to have some very tough questions to answer.
