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Defunct Poker Sites - Find out which online poker rooms have closed or been shut down. Discover the reasons for their downfall and the stories behind them.
A lot of online card rooms were launched and never had success. The defunct poker sites below once were notable, but closed due to changes in the law, bad luck, or bad management.
Many defunct poker sites are bought over by other operators that fold the shuttered poker site's players and balances into their own platform. Others plan and execute a deliberate shutdown procedure, giving users a certain timeframe in which to claim their balances.
Online poker was suspended on April 15 at the top three United States websites (In order, PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker and Cereus Poker Network) and continues to be suspended at the top two. On April 15, 2011, the United States Attorney in New York seized and shut down defendants' domains which included Pokerstars.com, Fulltiltpoker.com ...
26 mar 2020 · Three of the world's biggest online poker sites have been shut down by the FBI on charges of fraud and money laundering. Executives from PokerStars, the biggest poker site in the world, Full...
16 kwi 2021 · Ten years after hundreds of millions of dollars in player funds were frozen and seized by the U.S. government and lives were turned upside-down, the industry has gone through drastic changes.
19 maj 2020 · The U.S. froze individual accounts of online poker players in 14 different countries after seizing websites like PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker, major advertisers and sponsors of such televised tournaments. These websites have been charged of fraud, money laundering and of running illegal casino operations.
