Poker News 2011: Online Pokerstars Moves to Pokerstars.eu

by MROliver | April 16, 2011 at 08:48 am

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In Poker News, the Online Poker Site Pokerstars.com, Which Was Shut Down April 15 2011, Has Moved to Pokerstars.eu For People to Play

Although there is still a lot of confusion surrounding the shutting down of online poker sites such as Pokerstars, Full Tilt Poker, and Absolute Poker, Pokerstars.com has already relocated to the domain name Pokerstars.eu.

According to Pokernewsdaily, the famous online poker site was quick to react to the news that its .com name was shut down, after founders Paul Tate were indicted by the FBI, and the Pokerstars.eu domain was launched shortly after.

PokerStars Steve” explained, “The PokerStars website has been moved to www.pokerstars.eu, and the PokerStars Support email address is now support@pokerstars.eu. PokerStars apologizes to all players for any inconvenience caused by this disruption.” He cautioned, however, “Please be aware that PokerStars Support is currently experiencing a very high volume of emails, so response times are delayed. Player emails will be answered as quickly as possible.”

While the issue of U.S. players being able to get their hands on their money is still a very important one, there seems to be no definite answer just yet, but according to Business Insider, it is likely that the sites will be able to resume operations again soon, and customers will have access to their money, there's just no telling when that will be.

We talked to a spokesperson in the U.S. Attorney's office who would not comment on the specific issue of customer accounts, but did provide a copy of both the criminal indictment and the civil complaint. We haven't yet fully digested the 80-page document, but it does appear that the investigation is targeting the profits made by the poker sites. They have not being asked to forfeit that money given to them for gambling. There's no mention of seizing all assets or forcing the businesses to cease operations completely — unless that becomes necessary to pay their $3 billion in sought penalties.