VictoryPoker.com, the Malta-licensed poker site, has made a decision to take the option to leave the US market.
This decision follows the US’s federal indictment of eleven individuals who were connected with online poker sites, Full Tilt Poker, AbsolutePoker.com and PokerStars.com.
A member of the Cake Poker Network, VictoryPoker.com was set up about a year ago and promoted itself as a site that welcomed players from the United States.
At one stage it was rumored that VictoryPoker.com had moved to the CEREUS Network, which was then America’s third biggest poker network, but this never came to fruition. According to Dan Fleyshman, Chief Executive Officer of VictoryPoker.com, they had considered making the move but did not do so.
Fleyshman stated that VictoryPoker.com has already been blocked from US players by the Cake Poker Network and is presently working on the switch. Fleyshman also stated that even though the Cake Poker Network will still accept US players as a network for as long as they wish, he had made a personal decision not to have Victory.Poker.com continue. He added that VictoryPoker.com is a poker skin on a network that does not have XYZ shell companies or shady processing and therefore do not have access to wire transfers, credit card processing or merchant accounts.
VictoryPoker.com blocked US players from the second that Fleyshman became aware that the government was crushing the top three online poker sites even though the other skins on the Cake, Yahatay, Everleaf and Merge networks did not do likewise. He had made a personal decision to block US players from the site as he was not prepared to battle with the government.
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