Full Tilt Ponzi

[Silverback]

They are in trouble for previously allowing Americans to play, not taking player's money. Pokerstars is great, as long as you don't live in America!

I have a good Bodog story for ya that happened this week.

[talisman]

They are in trouble for previously allowing Americans to play, not taking player's money. Pokerstars is great, as long as you don't live in America!

So how hard is it to get an out of country address?

[Silverback]

So how hard is it to get an out of country address?

it's the bank and credit card companies as well as IP addresses they are checking now to cover their asses.

[Slowhand]

The thing is, if these guys had that kind of money on hand they could easily make millions a year and not really have the money at risk. Just another story where people see millions sitting there and get greedy and try to take it.

No fucking shit.

Dwan needs to stick to poker

Homeboy clearly didn't have the capacity to be involved in that.

[BERT]

it's the bank and credit card companies as well as IP addresses they are checking now to cover their asses.

That's the reason you were seeing Pro's moving to Canada a few months back.

[MattB]

So how hard is it to get an out of country address?

I know a guy or two that has a remote ip that says they live in Peru. They call it a VPN or something. I don't know much about that shit though.

[MattB]

I have a good Bodog story for ya that happened this week.

Bodog has been weird throughout this whole ordeal.

A) They are still allowing US players and just announced a couple weeks ago that as of 12/31/11, USA players are no longer allowed.

B) as of 2006, when the first third party moneybooks were getting busted, Calvin Ayre(owner of Bodog) claimed he'd never come back to the US, for fear of being arrested. I know he lives close to your buddy Carl, so I'd love to hear a story or two!

C) They just signed Amanda Leatherman(host of Pokerstars "Big Game" that used to air on fox, and a complete miget hottie btw, to a Bodog Pro roll, which is weird since she lives in socal/Vegas and they are about to dump US players.

D) I know that based on my retarded brother, it's very easy to upload $1k that you don't have to the site and gamble like you are a semi-baller for a week, until they find out and suspend all accounts with the same birthdate and last name, unfortunately killing my action on that site and freezing my account.

E) at least as of April 15th I can legitimately tell broads that the FBI has seized one of my bank accounts and be truthful, while still sounding gangsta!

[Wicked SVO]

I know a guy or two that has a remote ip that says they live in Peru. They call it a VPN or something. I don't know much about that shit though.

Free to air satellite users "kinda" used the same thing with virtual private network and key changing software. I don't know much about that shit either lol.

-k

[MattB]

Free to air satellite users "kinda" used the same thing with virtual private network and key changing software. I don't know much about that shit either lol.

-k

Lol

and to claify, Bodog freezed my account, and the FBI seized my Fulltilt account, along with several thousand other American players.

Another Bodog fact I wanted to bringup was that in '06, when anything USA/poker related started getting investigated, bodog.com became extinct and turned into bodoglife.com, and I never understood the exact legalities of that!

[Wicked SVO]

so you just rock rubberband wallets now?

-k

[78X]

So how hard is it to get an out of country address?

not difficult at all, just takes a bit of time to setup the PO box, credit card billing address, and use an IP from that country when accessing the site.

[Doug Hatton]

I never really kept funds on there.. mostly because I'd just lose them playing! LOL! I have pulled some pretty decent withdrawals off of FT though. The last time I tried they wouldn't let me pull it off, so I just kept playing and ended up losing it. We use VPN through my work for remote access to the server in Plano. I guess you could set up a server, then just dial into it from the US.

[Silverback]

The way Bodog is handling money from US players is by using another legitimate business to charge someone's credit card for funds. Here's what happened to me last week.

I put 200 in my Bodog account via BOFA debit card, the week before college football started, so I could make some little bets here and there for fun. It went through and I was betting away, no problems.

Two weeks later when I'm checking my accounts and balancing my "checkbook" if you will. I know, who does this??? I notice a charge for 209.45 to some online art template company. I do a little research and find that the company is in Beliz, but I know I never purchased anything from them. I tried calling them and left them a message, but never heard back. So I call BOFA and file a fraud charge for the 209.45 charge. While we're looking at my account and getting the claim filed, another $9 charge from the same place comes through. I have them check this, and they say it's an international rate fee charge, and they will refund that one too.

So BOFA refunds my money, and is doing a fraud investigation, and I order a new check card, etc... Then I realize, the only place I used my card online was with Bodog, and it was for 200 bucks.... OOPS!!! Fast forward to today, my account is still active, and has not been debited.

I wonder how long this will go before I get RyanB'd

[BERT]

Free to air satellite users "kinda" used the same thing with virtual private network and key changing software. I don't know much about that shit either lol.

-k

and today i'm seeing ghosts

[BERT]

I'm just glad on any day/night of the week i can find a poker game within 15min of Longview. And if i just HAVE to play, the boats are only 45min away