 PokerRooms update on US Legislation
Dear Affiliate Partner,
As we have previously advised, 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 (the Act that affects the processing of payments between US customers and certain 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.
We would like to update you on the steps we are taking for all real money U.S. players.
As a result of this new law, we no longer accept real money deposits from any NEW U.S.players.
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 any of the PokerAffiliate.com brands. This solution will be implemented on Wednesday, 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 players will still be able to login to the site, participate in play money games and withdraw funds from their account.
Until November 6 you will continue to earn revenue share on your existing US real money players.
If you are currently waiting for players to qualify for CPA payouts then we will contact you soon with a fair solution for those players which have not yet earned 100 player points.
If you are a U.S. affiliate currently receiving your affiliate payouts to your player account, then you will need to change your payout option. You can change this to Neteller, Moneybookers or check.
We are of course very sorry for this development and hope for the time that we can work with all our affiliates again to recruit U.S. players to our 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. | 
