E-mail from Sportsbook.com announcing change

[GFootsXtreme]

To all those who are interested, i suppose all i missed out on was a BC bet...
However, lesson learned and I will be moving my funds to BetJamaica, Pinnacle or BetCris depending upon a few things...anyway, here's the e-mail in case you want the details:
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With the recent passing of law effecting financial institutions’ transactions with online gaming companies, Sportsbook.com’s parent company, Sportingbet PLC, has decided to stop taking wagers from customers in the US effective immediately.

Does this mean you can’t bet on sports or play blackjack online anymore at Sportsbook.com? Hell no.

Sportsbook.com is open for business as usual. Better than usual, in fact, see below.

Sportingbet PLC has sold Sportsbook.com to the existing management team and a group of investors who are continuing to run Sportsbook.com just as always—or perhaps even better than before.

So, as always, your transactions remain secure, your details completely confidential and your account safe with eGaming Review’s number one US facing sports book for the second year running-- Sportsbook.com

If you have any questions about this change, please email service@sportsbook.com or call us on 1-800-632-6088. You can also chat to one of our Live operators right now by going to the following link and clicking on the 'Live Chat' button:
http://www.sportsbook.com/info/help.php

Better Than Usual:
10% reload bonus on all deposits from Friday morning to Sunday midnight.

Deposit over $300 this weekend and we’ll also send you our new 2007 Big Deals desk calendar.

Deposit over $1000 this weekend and we’ll send you our beautiful Sportsbook.com poker set.

Deposit using Neteller or eCheck and we’ll kick in an extra 5% on top of all that.

Terms and conditions apply, see the promotion section of Sportsbook.com for details.
You must click here in order to participate in the gifts promotion:


Welcome to the new Sportsbook.com.

The Team at Sportsbook.com.

[johnny1212]

Sportingbet Sells U.S. Operations as Web Gambling Ban Nears

By Michael Nol

Oct. 12 (Bloomberg) -- Sportingbet Plc, the owner of Paradise Poker, said it sold its operations in the U.S., where lawmakers are preparing to ban Internet gambling.

Jazette Enterprises Ltd. bought the company's U.S. sports betting and casino operations for $1, London-based Sportingbet said in an e-mailed statement today. The sale relieves Sportingbet of $13.2 million in liabilities.

To contact the reporter on this story: Michael Nol in New York at mnol@bloomberg.net .

[sesh]

I wouldn't call it better than usual. They closed all non-US accounts in order to fulfill their noncompete clause with SportingBetPLC.

Interesting how a U.S. bill to prohibit online gambling gets my account closed, when I'm in Canada. God damn Bush.