US government freezes American player payouts

Poker news, US freezes American player payouts
'Everybody freeze!'

Those nice people that work for the United States dictatorship, sorry, ‘government’, have struck a low blow for US-based online poker players and the sites that service them by seizing the winnings of 27,000 American players, worth more then $30 million.

Poker sites with Account Services and Allied Systems processing systems found that two of its banking partners, Wells Fargo and Citibank, were ordered by the government to freeze money in their accounts.

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