BETFRED (on iPoker network) closing doors to Canadians

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Just received an email from BETFRED this evening... they're closing their doors to Canadian customers as of June 9th.
BETFRED is on the iPoker network.
 

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Well now. That's interesting. I received exactly the same email but for SA residents. Why exactly are they doing this?
 
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I got the same email. They also close doors to hungarians...
 
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I wonder who they aren't closing their doors on?
 
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Here in germany too:

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They are closing doors to 30 countries which include canada, germany, sa, ukraine, romania etc to meet regulations in their major market UK. William hills has closed doors for india but betfred does not restrict my country this time.
 
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They are closing doors to 30 countries which include canada, germany, sa, ukraine, romania etc to meet regulations in their major market UK. William hills has closed doors for India but betfred does not restrict my country this time.

i dont get it, what regulations do they have to meet? that would affect them allowing players from the aforementioned countries to continue playing? i would hate if a poker site that i visit did this
 
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maybe to do with Tax, I know ther is a change regarding trying to tax at the rate of their customer base(UK) rather than the country they are based as alot of sites william hill, Ladbrokes, BetFred etc are based in Gibraltar and tax used to be 5% there.
 
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i dont think thats the issue. alot of countries that are not served anymore dont have a big difference in most taxes compared with england. very strange. i dont think these countries are banning poker if they did that would make sense but i dont think thats the problem.
 
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Betfred does not allow South African, German, Swedish, Dutch, Norwegian, Finnish, Belgian, Polish, Bulgarian, Austrian, Czech, Hungarian, Japanese, Latvian, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovakian, Ukrainian, Canadian, French, Italian, American, Kyrgyz, Spanish, Greek, Danish, Serbian, Montenegrin, Chinese, Israeli or Turkish citizens or residents to open accounts, deposit funds or place bets on our sportsbook, casino, poker, games or bingo.
 
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iam german and played on this site for about 6 years. Last 6 months i didnt play. Few days ago, i heard that germans are banned. Someone told me that they sent these emails to the customers and that they had to cash out within 1 month , otherwise money is gone. I didnt get that email, so i knew nothing about it and now its october, so the 1 month period is over

Iam still able to login into the software and can enter every table i want. But when i try to open the cashier, i have to login again and that doesnt work anymore.

I dont want to contact support to say them that iam still able to play. Maybe they freeze my account immediately. I have still money in my account. What can i do to get this money?
 
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