Planet Poker says Farewell

[mongoose]

After 9 years in business, Planet Poker has made the difficult decision to cease real money operations. Management regrets this decision but the impact of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act in the U.S. leaves no reasonable alternative.

During the past several months, Planet Poker explored every reasonable option to continue real money operations. This included working with other cardrooms and ecommerce processors to find solutions to the issues existing in the industry today. Unfortunately, no viable solution surfaced.

As always, your funds are safe and secure at Planet Poker. We are pleased to announce that we have made arrangements to allow players to transfer remaining funds from Planet Poker to another cardroom. Please sign into Planet Poker and select the "Transfer Now" button to start the transfer process. Alternatively, you may elect to cashout remaining funds via the Cashier page.

Real money tables and tournaments will continue at Planet Poker through to 31 March 2007, but effective immediately you can no longer make a deposit.

Please click here for complete information regarding this announcement.
Thank you for your support during the past 9 years. We recommend that you transfer your funds to another cardroom so you can continue to play for real money.

Planet Poker will continue to offer you the best "Play for fun" poker on the internet and hope to see you frequently at our tables. We hope to return to real money operations when the legal climate is clearer.

We wish you the best of luck and hope your online poker playing continues to be enjoyable.

Planet Poker Management

[hoursurfing]

Yeah thats pretty nuts. They had epassporte and Click2pay though didnt they? I guess when Neteller stopped what little players they had left.

Does anyone know of or have a list of the major skins of Planet Poker?


* Mongoose comes out of hiding huh?

[PokerProp]

Originally Posted by hoursurfing

Does anyone know of or have a list of the major skins of Planet Poker?

Did the still have skins? I knew they had VIP but they left a while ago.

These guys were making a push to. They had brought on some high rakeback players to fill up the tables, finally updated banners to reflect new bonuses, were actually responding to affiliates again and for the first time in ages broke 100 real money players at the same time. I think even a couple hundred at some times.
I actually feel sad because I was playing online poker since it came out. I was a part time internet marketer part time live poker player (30 or so hours per week as income) when online poker first started. I played so much at this site. haven't in ages but still sad to see them go.