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Recent events surrounding the US government and online poker industry have led many to believe that there simply is no hope left for the legalization of online poker in this country. But in reality, it could be just the push that American online poker players needed to force the issue into the senate in such a manner as to finally establish, one way or another, the legalities of internet poker in the US.

Certain members of Full Tilt Poker who were playing on the tables Monday were privy to a brief pop-up message that explicated an upcoming, momentary downtime of the servers. The online poker room was preparing for a quick transition that would result in its software being moved to a new Malta-based sister site, FullTiltPoker.EU.