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Originally Posted by Suicane75
Wait, wasn't it illegal to play? How do you request funds made from an illegal activity?
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I got my full tilt distribution last year.
Layman's understanding... originally there was a very old Wire Act that people felt would have covered making online poker illegal. The UIGEA did nothing to go after poker players, it made it illegal for the sites to accept financial transactions over the internet from people in the US.
In general it seemed like there was never any desire to go after the players, just to get the sites out of the US market.
There are lots of other nuances to the arguments, about poker being a skill game (and thus not a "game of chance") and many other things but without getting deep into those arguments I think that covers it at a super high level?