Friday, June 12, 2009

Feds Freeze Poker Champ's Winnings........

Winning $10,000 in an online poker tournament made him eligible for the upcoming World Series of Poker, the game's premier event, where hundreds of players -- amateur and professional -- descend on Las Vegas from around the world to play for a multimillion-dollar pot. To register, he simply had to cash a check cut by a company that processed payments for the poker Web site Pokerstars.com and use the $10,000 to buy into the series. When he went to cash the check from Account Services Wednesday, it bounced, he said...Link

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