[Canard]

Party Gaming made an official statement to the London Stock Exchange this morning:

http://www.londonstockexchange.com/LSECWS/IFSPages/MarketNewsPopup.aspx?id=1308926&source=RNS

"After taking extensive legal advice, the Board of PartyGaming Plc has concluded that the new legislation, if signed into law, will make it practically impossible to provide US residents with access to its real money poker and other real money gaming sites. As a result of this development, the Board of PartyGaming has determined that if the President signs the Act into law, the Company will suspend all real money gaming business with US residents, and such suspension will continue indefinitely, subject to clarification of the interpretation and enforcement of US law and the impact on financial institutions of this and other related legislation."

No Monster Millions final for you....

[jpl]

I don't see how Harrah's can possibly be happy with this, because if it's really true that Party Gaming and the other big sites are going to ban U.S. based players, that's going to have a MASSIVE impact on the future of the World Series of Poker.

The huge growth of the Series the last couple of years has been largely due to people qualifying in online tournaments. We could see a significantly reduced field next year.