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UK Times carries an article speculating that this move is part of a bigger campaign to clamp down on PS and FTP and will have benefits for Party and other players who left the US.
US action provides boost to online poker specialists - Times Online
US action provides boost to online poker specialists
Dominic Walsh and Robert Lindsay: Market report
Investors in PartyGaming and Playtech, the online poker specialists, may, at last, have been dealt a winning hand by American authorities.
The US attorney for the southern district of New York, apparently acting under instructions from the FBI, has ordered banks to freeze about $33 million in accounts of payment processors that handle the winnings of 27,000 American customers of PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker. Those two American groups have continued to operate websites in the United States in defiance of a ban on online gaming, even though PartyGaming has had to pull out of the US and pay a big fine.
American punters are estimated to fuel at least half the $16 billion global internet gambling industry, so the sites aimed at US consumers generated larger winnings, which attracted punters in Europe and Asia. If American players are forced off the web, then European players should be tempted back to the European sites.
Deutsche Bank analysts said: “If this action is the start of a bigger move by US authorities to clamp down on those sites, then this should be materially beneficial for the next-largest providers of poker liquidity, Playtech and PartyGaming, as we would expect to see non-US players migrating away from PokerStars and Full Tilt.”
PartyGaming rose 15¼p to 254¼p and Playtech rose 16¾p to 480½p. 888 Holdings added 6½p to 115½p and Sportingbet rose ¾p to 58¾p.
US action provides boost to online poker specialists - Times Online
US action provides boost to online poker specialists
Dominic Walsh and Robert Lindsay: Market report
Investors in PartyGaming and Playtech, the online poker specialists, may, at last, have been dealt a winning hand by American authorities.
The US attorney for the southern district of New York, apparently acting under instructions from the FBI, has ordered banks to freeze about $33 million in accounts of payment processors that handle the winnings of 27,000 American customers of PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker. Those two American groups have continued to operate websites in the United States in defiance of a ban on online gaming, even though PartyGaming has had to pull out of the US and pay a big fine.
American punters are estimated to fuel at least half the $16 billion global internet gambling industry, so the sites aimed at US consumers generated larger winnings, which attracted punters in Europe and Asia. If American players are forced off the web, then European players should be tempted back to the European sites.
Deutsche Bank analysts said: “If this action is the start of a bigger move by US authorities to clamp down on those sites, then this should be materially beneficial for the next-largest providers of poker liquidity, Playtech and PartyGaming, as we would expect to see non-US players migrating away from PokerStars and Full Tilt.”
PartyGaming rose 15¼p to 254¼p and Playtech rose 16¾p to 480½p. 888 Holdings added 6½p to 115½p and Sportingbet rose ¾p to 58¾p.
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