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Posted : admin On 4/11/2022As reported by Forbes Magazine, Federal prosecutors have seized nearly $8 million from financial institutions in Washington State that were holding money for processors of major online poker sites like PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker, UB.com, and Absolute Poker. The move reportedly came in the past two weeks and is the latest in the Department of Justice’s crackdown on online gambling in the U.S.
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Online poker sites have used payment processors to carry out transactions with customers before and after the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA) went into effect in 2006. However, the Department of Justice stepped in and began seizing funds from banks across the U.S. in recent years, creating havoc for poker players wondering whether their online bankrolls are safe.
According to four civil forfeiture complaints filed in Federal court in Seattle since October, Federal prosecutors seized cash in accounts at Bank of America, J.P. Morgan Chase, Wells Fargo, and SunTrust. The money allegedly belonged to payment processing firms like Arrow Checks, Secure Money, Etegrity Processing, Anaya Trading Solutions, and Blue Lake Capital Management and Logistics.
The largest of the forfeiture cases, filed in December and involving $5.1 million, centered on Arrow Checks. A Washington State task force was notified by a witness in June that he had received a payout check from Arrow Checks that came from online poker winnings from PokerStars. The investigation tracked more than $20 million of wire transfers from Canada and Texas to Arrow Checks accounts at Bank of America controlled by Scott Seguin and Justin Sather, court documents say.
Federal prosecutors claim that Seguin and Sather were operating an unlicensed money transmitting business and violated the Federal Wire Act of 1961 “because online gambling is illegal in Washington State,” the Forbes article said.
The article also revealed that other payment processors operated six bank accounts at SunTrust and Wells Fargo controlled by Sanjay Panya that Feds say represented proceeds from Full Tilt and Absolute Poker. The Feds seized $1.3 million in the accounts connected to Panya in November, claiming he was operating an unlicensed money transmitting business violating the Wire Act.
The other payment processor companies involved in the civil forfeiture actions were run by Brian Kenny and Javier Carillo, both of whom court documents say facilitated payments to Washington State residents derived from online poker play at Ultimate Bet, now UB.com.
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In June, Federal authorities in New York seized bank accounts worth $34 million belonging to 27,000 online poker players. The accounts were managed by Allied Systems and Account Services, which handled cash for various online poker sites. Ahmad Khawaja, who owned the payment processing companies, reached a $13.3 million civil forfeiture settlement with the U.S. prosecutors in August before exiting the country.
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Then, in November, the U.S. Government seized funds from popular payment processor eWalletXpress. After weeks of questions regarding the reason behind the company’s “technical problems” on its website, eWalletXpress revealed to its customers that it had been served a warrant by authorities. The processor allowed customers to cash out their remaining balances and then shut down its U.S. operations in December.
This latest news is yet another blemish on the status of poker in the Evergreen State. Washington’s Supreme Court upheld a 2006 state law last September that made it a felony to play online poker for money. The ban being upheld caused PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker to cease providing real money poker for Washington residents shortly thereafter, resulting in many high-stakes online players having to make difficult life decisions.
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| Bryn Kenney | |
|---|---|
| Residence | Long Beach, New York |
| Born | November 1, 1986 (age 34) |
| World Series of Poker | |
| Bracelet(s) | 1 |
| Final table(s) | 7 |
| Money finish(es) | 32 |
| Highest ITM Main Event finish | 28th, 2010 |
| World Poker Tour | |
| Money finish(es) | 6 |
| European Poker Tour | |
| Money finish(es) | 5 |
| Information accurate as of 12 July 2016. | |
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Bryn Kenney (born November 1, 1986) is an American professional poker player from Long Beach, New York.[1][2]
Poker career[edit]
Kenney played Magic: The Gathering competitively before transitioning to poker.[3] His first live cash was in 2007 at the East Coast Poker Championships.
Kenney won his first WSOP bracelet in 2014 after winning the $1,500 10-Game Mix Six Handed event, which earned him $153,220.[4]
In 2016, Kenney defeated 2015 World Series of Poker Main Event champion, Joe McKeehen heads-up at the Pokerstars Caribbean Adventure $100K Super High Roller event winning $1,687,800.[5]
After placing 2nd to Aaron Zang in the £1,050,000 No-Limit Hold'em - Triton Million for Charity Event, Kenney received the largest single payout in live poker tournament history of £16,890,509 ($20,563,324).[6] The tournament had the largest scheduled single payout in poker tournament history with first place receiving £19,000,000 ($23,100,000). However, due to a prize splitting deal agreed with Zang, Kenney ended up receiving £16,890,509 ($20,563,324) for 2nd while Zang received the smaller prize of £13,779,491 ($16,775,820) for winning the tournament. The deal was made when the tournament entered heads up with Kenney holding an over 5:1 chip lead against Zang. Zang made a comeback and eventually won the tournament.[7][8]
Kenney is ranked 4th on the Global Poker Index and 1st on the Hendon Mob All-Time Money List as of August 3, 2019. As of August 2020, his live tournament winnings exceed $55,000,000.
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World Series of Poker[edit]
| Year | Event | Prize Money |
|---|---|---|
| 2014 | $1,500 10-Game Mix Six Handed | $153,220 |
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- ^Remko Rinkema (January 8, 2016). 'Bryn Kenney Defeats Joe McKeehen to Win PCA $100K Super High Roller for $1,687,800'. PokerNews Global. Retrieved July 12, 2016.
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- ^Trenholm, Brandyn (August 3, 2019). 'Aaron Zang Wins Triton Million for $16.7 Million; Bryn Kenney Finishes Runner-Up for $20 Million'. PokerNews. Retrieved September 8, 2020.
- ^Fast, Erik (August 3, 2019). 'Aaron Zang Has Won The Largest Buy-In Poker Tournament Ever'. cardplayer.com. Retrieved September 8, 2020.