Internet poker companies shut down, charged with fraud. Said their proposed deals to operate potential online poker sites with two of the indicted companies were now dead. Three largest online poker sites indicted and shut down by FBI (latimesblogs.latimes.com) submitted 8 years ago. The deals allegedly included a $10 million investment in a private Utah bank that gave the poker companies more than a 30 percent ownership stake, prosecutors said. 'These defendants concocted an elaborate criminal fraud scheme. The founders of PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker and Absolute Poker were indicted on charges of bank fraud, money laundering and illegal gambling. In addition more than 75 bank accounts used by the online poker companies (and payment processors) and 5 domain names was seized (restraining oders issued).

North American Poker Tour
Sport	Texas Hold 'em
Founded	2010
Country	North America
Official website	napt.com

The North American Poker Tour (NAPT) was a series of international poker tournaments held in North America. The NAPT included an associated television series broadcasting the final table of some of the tournaments.

The NAPT was started in 2010 by PokerStars, then the largest online poker cardroom in the world.^[1] The televised series aired on ESPN2 in the United States.^[2]

Players were able to enter the NAPT events by paying the entry fee or by playing online poker freeroll satellites on the PokerStars.net domain.^[3]

Season 1 consisted of 7 events played in 2010. Season 2 saw 3 events played in early 2011 before competition was suspended.

On April 15, 2011, along with similar competitors' sites, Pokerstars.com was seized and shut down by U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York, which alleged it was in violation of federal bank fraud and money laundering laws.^[4] The company subsequently stopped allowing players from the United States to play real money games and temporarily moved the main company website to Pokerstars.eu.

Game grumps wheel of fortune shart. As of February 13, 2012, the NAPT website, and information on remaining events for Season 2, has not been updated since the April 15, 2011 seizure. The last NAPT event had concluded just 2 days earlier, on April 13, 2011, when Vanessa Selbst defended her Season 1 NAPT Mohegan Sun victory by winning the Season 2 NAPT Mohegan Sun event. Four wind casino 3 card poker.

As of March 3, 2012 (possibly earlier), the NAPT website no longer shows the North American series—redirecting instead to information regarding the Latin American Poker Tour.

Results[edit]

North American Poker Tour season 2 (as suspended April 15, 2011)

References[edit]

^PokerScout.com: PokerStars
^ESPN to broadcast 16 hours of the North American Poker Tour
^http://www.napt.com/how-to-enter/
^Ben Rooney (April 15, 2011). 'Online poker companies indicted for fraud'. CNNMoney.com.

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The poker boom was a period between 2003 and 2006,^[1] during which poker, primarily no limit Texas hold 'em, but also other variations, became considerably more popular around the world. During the boom years the online poker player pool at least doubled in size every year.^[1]

Causes[edit]

The seeds of the boom began in 1998, with the release of the film Rounders^[2]^[3] and the introduction of online poker at Planet Poker.^[4] These events built on the occasional telecasts of the World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Events that were recorded each summer and broadcast later in the year.

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Two specific 2003 triggers completed the launch of the poker boom. In the spring of 2003, the World Poker Tour's inaugural season debuted on the Travel Channel on Americancable television. The impact of the boom was escalated in May 2003, when amateur Chris Moneymaker won the 2003 WSOP Main Event.^[5] Moneymaker won his seat via a $86 satellite tournament on the PokerStars online poker room.^[6] Moneymaker was one of 839 entrants in the 2003 event, an increase of roughly 200 players from 2002 and almost doubling the 393 competitors that played in 1999. By the next year, the field in the 2004 Main Event more than tripled to 2576 players. By the 2006 Main Event, there were 8773 competitors, some 14 times as many as had entered the last 2002 pre-boom Main Event.

It is also believed^[who?] that the NHL lockout of 2004-05, and the subsequent filling of ESPN air time with poker programming influenced the poker boom.^{[citation needed]} Another view holds that the poker boom was a classic speculative bubble.^[7]

Decline[edit]

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The end of the boom is generally considered to be October 2006, when the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006 (UIGEA) became law in the United States, and several online poker sites, including the industry leader at the time, Party Poker, left the United States.^[8] In the first WSOP following the passage of UIGEA, attendance in the WSOP Main Event dropped nearly 28%, from 8773 in 2006 to 6358 at the 2007 Main Event.

The game today remains much more popular than the pre-boom period, with WSOP Main Event attendance having stabilized near the 2007 level, in part due to higher growth levels internationally.^[9]^[10]^[11]

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Based on the 6685 entries to the July 2011 launch of the 2011 Main Event, it appears that the 'Black Friday' indictments, on April 15, 2011, have not reduced the recent level of poker activity.^{[improper synthesis?]} Three of the biggest online poker sites serving players in the United States had their web domains seized and shut down by U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York, which alleged they were in violation of federal bank fraud and money laundering laws.^[12] Nevertheless, two of them continue to serve the international player pool, and numerous smaller sites continue to allow U.S. players.

Accounting Fraud Companies

References[edit]

^ ^a^bSilver, Nate. 'After 'Black Friday,' American Poker Faces Cloudy Future'. FiveThirtyEight. Retrieved 6 August 2017.
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Results[edit]

References[edit]

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Decline[edit]

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