There’s no use trying to sugar-coat it—it’s a crappy time for anything relating to online gambling in the United States. With the arrests of former Neteller chief’s John LeFevre and Steve Lawrence, the i-gaming industry suffered its very own version of Hurricane Katrina. The hurricane was bad enough, but the flood is what’s done the real damage…the flood of panic causing most of the major cash processors to abandon the industry. For US players, no more Neteller, no more Citadel, no more PaySpark, no more ACH.
Continuing the Katrina analogy, US players are now left clinging to whatever possible to keep them afloat. We’re looking for whatever hope we can glean that things will be o.k. Unfortunately, just like the victims of the real Hurricane Katrina, hope, information and aid is disappointingly slow and insufficient to sustain the players.
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