I have been playing on Holdempoker for some time - it was the only site I found that would work on a non-windows system - I run Linux. Looks like I will have to settle for playing for play money from now on....

U.S. RESTRICTIONS

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Hi,
On September 30th 2006 the U.S. Congress passed the SAFE Port Act which also
contained certain provisions known as the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement
Act of 2006 that affects the processing of payments between U.S. customers and
online gaming companies. The legislation was signed into law by President George
W Bush on October 13th 2006.

We regret that the U.S. has taken this step to make it virtually impossible to
offer real money entertainment to U.S. customers. It is doubtful that the U.S.
authorities will achieve their stated goals by introducing such legislation. We
believe that a properly monitored forward-looking regulation would be much more
effective than this general ban.

Entirely due to this new law, we are disappointed to announce the following
restrictions for all customers within the U.S.:

Depositing Restrictions

As officially stated before, we have been working on a technical solution to
restrict all customers within the U.S. from depositing new funds at
HoldemPoker.com. This solution will be implemented on October 25th.

Real Money Restrictions

We will have implemented the technical solution to restrict all customers
within the U.S. from accessing our real money games starting Monday, November
6th. After that time you will still be able to login to HoldemPoker.com, enjoy
all of our play money games and withdraw funds from your account at your
convenience.

Cash-Outs

Your funds will continue to be safe, secure and yours, and will be transferred
to you at your request. The option to cash-out will remain available to you.

Unused Tournament Tickets

Valid tournament tickets are as good as cash and will be refunded to your
account once the U.S. restrictions are implemented on November 6th. It may
take some days for all tickets to be processed into cash, and only valid
tickets (not expired) at the time of the U.S. restriction will be refunded.

Player Points

Player points and club points will be inaccessible to all U.S. customers
once the changes go live; but this does not mean that your points will expire.
Your hard earned points will be stored indefinitely, in the event of real money
play becoming available again. Until the U.S. restrictions are in place on
November 6th you are free to use your points in Club Holdem.

Pending Bonuses

Pending bonus tasks will be void after the U.S. restrictions come into
effect on November 6th, as it will not be possible to collect player points
via our real money games. Until the Real Money restriction is in place you
can continue to collect points to clear bonuses in your account.

At HoldemPoker.com, we are of course very sorry for this development and we
hope that we get the chance to meet all our U.S. players again in Real Money
games, as we are aiming to offer real money games as soon as the legislation
allows us to. We will do our utmost to continuously keep you up to date with
future developments.

HoldemPoker.com