Everleaf Gaming Bans US Players

Well I guess that it the end of the OFC 7K giveaway on RaginBet this weekend??? Was looking forward to the freeroll and even thinking about depositing to get into the 5K added tourney if I didn't cash in the freeroll.

"Players that logged into an Everleaf Gaming skin today were forced to agree to a new set of terms and conditions before seeing the cashier or player admin area. There were several new terms that players were unhappy about, the most notable new term was:


18. No person who is resident in Malta, France and USA may open an account, play, or in any other way participate in the ELG offerings and/or services.

While Everleaf Gaming did not accept players from Malta, the addition of France and USA into that terms is new and was added just today. This change of terms was brought on by an investigation by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. This investigation led to the seizure of one of Everleaf Gaming’s U.S. facing payment processors. The funds held by the payment processor were also seized.

The voice of Minted Poker known as Neil stated that the Everleaf Gaming Network was hit with a cease and desist demand from U.S. authorities. After a discussion with the Lottery and Gaming Authority, the organization that licenses Everleaf Gaming in Malta, it was agreed that Everleaf Gaming would leave the U.S. market. It is not known at this time how U.S. players will be paid, how long the process will take, or when U.S. players will be banned from the network. As of now, U.S. players are continuing to play for real money at Everleaf Gaming Network tables.

Minted Poker assured all players outside the U.S. that it was business as usual and that player funds were ring fenced. It was also noted that once U.S. players were removed from the network, the entire network would convert to Euros as their only currency.

Everleaf Gaming is expected to make an announcement in the next 12-24 hours that should give players more details about cashouts and when U.S. play will be suspended on the network. We will continue to monitor the situation and will post updates as they become available.

Other U.S. Poker Rooms Licensed by LGA

Everleaf Gaming is leaving the U.S. in part due to the suggestion of the LGA, who licenses and stores the servers for Everleaf Gaming. Merge Gaming also holds a license issued by the LGA. Merge Gaming is a different scenario than Everleaf Gaming though because Merge Gaming’s servers are located on the Kahnawake reservation in Canada which is the home of their primary licensor. While this may be an interesting next few days, there is no reason to believe that there is any immediate concern about Merge Gaming."

Another one bites the dust....

More bad news .
There is some good news tho as PKR one of the very few never to have allowed U.S. players are seriously looking into opening their doors in the near future and Merge are looking like lifting their 3 month old ban on new players from the States too.

Merge lifted that ban a while back.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't Merge lift that ban on new players from the US several weeks ago?

Just curious, what was everleaf doing that merge isnt doing. I have a feeling the US wants everyone out before they will even consider having US only online poker.

I received a note today that my cashout request from minted is cancelled and not open to US players anymore. So does this mean I wont get my money out?. Also still waiting 4 months for a Cake cashout. Sick of all this bullshit. I may just start playing at casinos

I just saw the email from the rb site I have affiliated with minted. Crazy stuff

An email from OFC just arrived in my box with this:

Speculation is that UIGEA relies on state law to determine what "illegal gambling" is. ELG was serving all 50 states and Merge is currently banning players from 5 states.

That being said, I've heard unconfirmed rumors that Merge may have also received the same letter from the DOJ and are contemplating the same move(again this is unconfirmed). Who really knows how many other sites received a similar letter. True Poker and Bovada have already had "legal problems" with the US gov. before and made the decision to continue to operate so the DOJ would have to do more then send them letters for them to stop, IMO!

Less and less sites to choose from. I hope everyone receives their money quickly. Fortunately, I had stopped playing on ELG a few months ago.

Where specifically is this buzz circulating?

Compare and contrast to what appeared in Part Time Poker today:

Other U.S. Poker Rooms Licensed by LGA

Everleaf Gaming is leaving the U.S. in part due to the suggestion of the LGA, who licenses and stores the servers for Everleaf Gaming. Merge Gaming also holds a license issued by the LGA. Merge Gaming is a different scenario than Everleaf Gaming though because Merge Gaming’s servers are located on the Kahnawake reservation in Canada which is the home of their primary licensor. While this may be an interesting next few days, there is no reason to believe that there is any immediate concern about Merge Gaming."

Add the $13.90 I had left on there to the pile from FTP and AP.

Now I'm glad I did withdrawals from most of the smaller sites just prior to BF. Was feeling like an idiot for a while, just wish I had w/d from everywhere.

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I've heard it from various people, but none of them are people I would consider to be in "the know" completely.

Who knows though yet. It's still to early. It may be deeper then Merge too(warning complete speculation!)

Sites like True Poker and Bovado have had "legal issues" with the US Gov before and basically flipped them the finger so if they received another threatening letter it probably wouldn't even be mentioned. They would continue to operate until something happened that forced them to stop, IMO.

So you log on and have to click accept or decline to the blurb about not playing if you are from U.S. Anyone know what happens if you click decline?

What about accept?

Update-Can't even log in now. Said invalid user or password. Changed password, still can't get in.

Tried website, could log in but got this:

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*sigh* I guess it back to cake for me again......this was one of my fav. site to play at since black friday and now *sigh* I guess i will start to learn live poker now instead of online...it been a great run.

Now the question is what about our money and how about get it back to us

just got this e-mail from Luvin poker...an everleaf skin. the end reads...

<<I can say, however, that the last 24 hours have presented some incredible opportunities for Luvin Poker. The old adage has held true, when one door closes, another one will open. In this situation, there are many doors opening and Luvin Poker is not going away. We're will be changing, we will be developing, and we will be growing. Real money for U.S. players will be returning in the future.>>

do u think they will be leaving everleaf...or will everleaf open doors to usa in future?

Finally had built up a mini bankrollon Mint off of freerolls which allow me to play in some regular cash games and small tournaments...boy this stinks. Just glad I didn't have any of my money on the site, sorry for those who did.

Thank you again US Government....... for taking yet another option off our table. I am so sick and damn tired of this. The economy is in the tank and you are doing this stupid crap. Seriously !!!!! Take a break already. Instead of bothering these people ( unless they are STEALING ) do something really productive such as LEGALIZE IT !!!!!!!

Yet another reason to vote against the current admin........

And just about everybody in Congress. Whether you like Barney Frank or not, he has been a long time proponent of legalization, it's too bad he is not running again.

I had $40 on luvin the day it happened. But, right before the cashier closed I sent my $40 to a Canadian friend. Will get it later. Pretty lucky I did that so my account balance is 0.00!

I was pretty lucky again also. Everleaf had made some changes a few months ago that I was against so I had cashed out a few hundred and started playing on other sites. Somehow I once again dodged a bullet and only had 3Euro's on Minted Poker(not sure how I even had that, must have been a Rakeback payment for a partial day???). I had a similar thing happen at FT and right before Black Friday had switched my roll to Merge.

I'd like to say I hope everyone that does have money tied up on this site(or any) is able to safely Cashout and receives it quickly.

I clicked "accept" on the first day so was able to make a note of my balance. But now I get the same "not a valid name or password that the rest of you get.

Theres no denying it. We're all at the mercy of the "powers that be". So I'll just keep playing at these rooms until they tell me "NO US ALLOWED".
Aced, All in, Americas Cardroom, Blackchip,Bovada,Cake,Carbon,Colt,Feltstars, Intertops,Iron Duke,Lock,Optimus,Overbet,PDC,Poker Host,Poker Nordica, PokerPlayerCafe,Yoga. Know of any more rooms that accept US players? Postem if you like.

You really think your problems began with this admin??

If I may interject. Maybe ferratus meant vote against the "current" administration because it is after all, the only game in town and we're kinda stuck with it. Not sure if he was singling out this "particular' administration. Were you ferratus?

Try logging on at the web site. I was able to get a ss of my account that way.

We all know it was Frist and Bush who gave us our beloved UIGEA. But both of them are gone. The Dems had control of both houses from 2007-2010, did nothing to stop implementation of it.

Eric Holder, appointed by Obama, and Preet Bharara who has wimped out on prosecuting any major bank or executive for the financial crisis, had no problem going after the poker sites.

Obama, who admits to playing poker, has been, at best, silent on the issue.

So it's not a stretch to blame this administration as well as the Bush administration and of course Congress for the current messed-up state of online poker.

what i think is these congress guys keep losing there money when they play online poker so they get mad and wanna take them down

You would think with the economy in the toilet for so freaking long, the politicians would jump at anything to gain some relief. Now I'm not sure how much revenue would actually be realized by the US gov, but something is better than nothing and every little bit helps. Also, if this thing flies, a good amount of jobs will be created, not only gov jobs, but in the private sector as well. What the hell are they wating for?

As i read this thread i'm remembering about a year ago when the "Black Friday 15th" and so many of us US players and others too lost at Tilt UB ect. , Gosh i hope one day things are corrected so's we can play in our own "sand box" without any more "probs"
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Hi Gateguard, how have you been?

Well, I don't live in the US, but I've been waiting for a withdrawal from Everleaf for 16 days now, and all they tell me when I send them an email asking about it is that they have many requests pending, and it'll take some time to process mine... and they have been saying that even before the news of this US ban.

Another one bites the dust. Pretty soon we will have no place to play online.

so the big question now is that how money...where is our money!!! i know i did not have much on that site due to that since black friday i will not put alot of money online anymore. I only had 20.00 on there and work it up to about 29.00 just playing the .50 since games but still i feel sorry for those that had more then me on the site...But if they want to repair things with us they should say something about return our money!!!! End of my point