Surely, a lot of people were given a want the entire year 2007 not to play a lousy trick on them. I don't know whether dreamgame somebody addressed the exact same wishes to the online gambling industry... But apparently, no one can say that the entire year turned out to be particularly successful. Let's have a glance at what happened to online casinos and online poker days gone by year.
The difficulties started even earlier, in 2006, when the USA passed what the law states forbidding online casinos and online poker rooms accept gamblers from the USA, as well as financial institutes to serve gambling transactions of American citizens. Plenty of casinos and poker rooms closed their doors to American players at the same time, but provided that there were establishments where Americans were allowed in, it didn't seem to be a crucial problem. In reality, serious troubles were only available in February, 2007, when two former senior managers and principal shareholders of Neteller Company were arrested in the USA.
Soon afterwards the accounts of Neteller with 55 million dollars were arrested, and the business had to refuse to work with Americans. "What are there to do with poker", you could ask. The matter is that Neteller was the basic and probably the most comfortable payment tool of American gamblers! Practically most of the charge cards of American banks haven't been dealing with online casinos and poker rooms for quite a while now. Bank transfers from American banks cannot also be made or received, there's even a problem with cheques. As a result Americans have lost a chance to make deposits or withdraw their winnings from online casinos and poker rooms. Straight after Neteller's problems another e-wallet payment systems terminated the acceptance of new clients from the USA. Click2Pay, MoneyBookers and FirePay had split off even earlier. In reality only ePassport continued its operation, but they just could not cope with the overflow of casino players from the USA. Overall a lot of American gamblers had to finally leave online gambling establishments.
In America a lot of people wished for counteraction of Antigua and European countries through the World Trade Organization against online casinos, some people dreamed of removal of a legislative ban at the very least for poker, but these dreams weren't fated to come true. Instead, the Department of Justice (DoJ) moved aggressively against London-based BetonSports, which maintains operations in Costa Rica and Antigua targeted at U.S. gamblers.
