The UIGEA makes it illegal for banks to transfer funds between online gambling sites including online poker rooms.
Party Poker, Doyles Room, Paradise Poker, PokerRoom, and others leave the US market because they are publicly traded gambling sites.
Pokerstars, Full Tilt Poker, Ultimatebet, and Bodog nearly leave the US market as well, but in the end they figure that US law does not apply to them because they operate outside of the United States.
It becomes difficult for American players to deposit and withdraw funds from online poker rooms because companies like Neteller have stopped fund transfers to gaming sites.
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Multi-Accounting cheating scandals rock the poker world and a great deal of negative publicity follows, including two well known young online poker players JJProdigy and ZeeJustin.
Full Tilt Poker reimburse several high stakes poker players because bots are found being used at their limit holdem games. Recent allegations of UltimateBet knowingly allowing bots to play surface in poker forums.
World Championship of Online Poker winner TheV0id is disqualified from the tournament and loses $1.2 million first place prize money for multi-acccounting.
Management at Absolute Poker are caught using a super user acccount to see opponents hole cards and cheat their own players out of $700,000. For the full story, check out Absolute Poker Scandal.
Account Selling scandal breaks when an editor for Bluff Magazine sells his online poker account temporarily to a well known internet poker pro Imper1um. Imper1um gets shunned by the media and the poker community after the news is released that with about 24 players left in one of the major Sunday Million Dollar Guarantee tournaments on Full Tilt Poker he win almost $200,000. Both have been banned from Full Tilt Poker for life and the editor was fired from Bluff Magazine.