UB Poker just suspended real money play for US residents. A statement regarding the suspension on play now pops up for players trying to connect from the USA.
This comes as a slight surprise to us as they had chosen to remain open for the last few days while Full Tilt Poker and Pokerstars had immediately suspended real money play on their poker websites. The UB website has been moved to www.ubpoker.eu for players outside the US. For customer support you can contact support@ub.net. They are being flooded with emails at the moment so please show some patience.
Here is the greeting that players from the US will see when and if they can connect to the UB client:
***Some players in the US are saying they can still log in and play for real money. I cannot even connect to the server.
Following their indictment by the U.S. Department of Justice on April 15th, 2011, Absolute Poker has now stopped real money play for their American customers. The owners and operators of Absolute Poker were named as defendants by the FBI, but kept their site open and active as normal for the last few days. Many in the online poker community felt this may be a sign that they would remain open while fighting the charges brought against them but that does not seem to be the case. Absolute Poker has changed their homepage domain to 