Reliable sources are beginning to spread the un-verified news that Playersonly and Sportsbook.com will leave the US market. The poker sites on these two domains make up an estimated 7 times the traffic on the merge network, which includes the top poker site of Cakepoker.com which plans on staying in the US. On top of that, Sportsbook.com is one of the biggest online sports betting sites with a billion dollar operation.
Playersonly and Sportsbook.com are expected to cease the acceptance of new US players on May 1st, 2011. They will continue to allow previously signed up players to deposit and play from the United States, it is only new US players that will be affected after the deadline.
While many may not know it, both poker sites combined made up the largest group of US poker players and new sign ups after Pokerstars and Full Tilt Poker left the US market on April 15, 2011.
It was said that due to the large amounts of new depositing players after the “Black Friday” or the April 15th shutdown of the “Big 3″ poker sites, that the processing for Playersonly and the lucrative Sportsbook.com brand were being overwhelmed to the point that advertisers and affiliates were told to stop promoting. They could not handle the massive amounts of new players. Not only that but they were not liking all the exposure during such a sketchy time for gaming operators.
We expect a press release to be announced shortly. Please see here for a list of US accepted poker sites. This is your last chance to sign up at Sportsbook.com or Playersonly.com before the May 1 deadline hits.
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