The article at http://business.guardian.co.uk/story/0,,1891913,00.html bears news of more companies pulling out of the US market. Fairground runs Spin Palace, Mummys Gold, Ruby Fortune, Piggs Casino, Jackpots in a Flash and Spin Palace Poker. Leisure and Gaming runs several casinos, including English Harbour and Nine.com. The most troubling news is from FirePay. I expect Neteller is next.
U.S. Restrictions Hi XXXX On September 30th 2006 the U.S. Congress passed the SAFE Port Act which also contained certain provisions known as the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006 that affects the processing of payments between U.S. customers and online gaming companies. The legislation was signed into law by President George W Bush on October 13th 2006. We regret that the U.S. has taken this step to make it virtually impossible to offer real money entertainment to U.S. customers. It is doubtful that the U.S. authorities will achieve their stated goals by introducing such legislation. We believe that a properly monitored forward-looking regulation would be much more effective than this general ban. Entirely due to this new law, we are disappointed to announce the following restrictions for all customers within the U.S.: Depositing Restrictions As officially stated before, we have been working on a technical solution to restrict all customers within the U.S. from depositing new funds at PokerRoom.com. This solution will be implemented on October 25th. Real Money Restrictions We will have implemented the technical solution to restrict all customers within the U.S. from accessing our real money games starting Monday, November 6th. After that time you will still be able to login to PokerRoom.com, enjoy all of our play money games and withdraw funds from your account at your convenience. Cash-Outs Your funds will continue to be safe, secure and yours, and will be transferred to you at your request. The option to cash-out will remain available to you. Unused Tournament Tickets Valid tournament tickets are as good as cash and will be refunded to your account once the U.S. restrictions are implemented on November 6th. It may take some days for all tickets to be processed into cash, and only valid tickets (not expired) at the time of the U.S. restriction will be refunded. Player Points / Loyalty Points Player points and loyalty points will be inaccessible to all U.S. customers once the changes go live; but this does not mean that your points will expire. Your hard earned points will be stored indefinitely, in the event of real money play becoming available again. Until the U.S. restrictions are in place on November 6th you are free to use your points in our loyalty program. Pending Bonuses Pending bonus tasks will be void after the U.S. restrictions come into effect on November 6th, as it will not be possible to collect player points via our real money games. Until the Real Money restriction is in place you can continue to collect points to clear bonuses in your account. At PokerRoom.com, we are of course very sorry for this development and we hope that we get the chance to meet all our U.S. players again in Real Money games, as we are aiming to offer real money games as soon as the legislation allows us to. We will do our utmost to continuously keep you up to date with future developments. PokerRoom.com
You can add GameAccount to the list GameAccount have just announced that they will be closing all US accounts and blocking new ones 'by IP address and payment method'. I know that's a largely academic point, since no one showed any interest in playing there, but one interesting detail is that they say 'None of our recognised payment methods are accepting any US business any longer'. I fund my account by Neteller, which I thought was still accepting US business?
