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[QUOTE="ruhrohdingdong, post: 1755876, member: 80096"]
Please quote in the UIGEA where it excludes games of skill, because I didn't see it when I read it.

This part is questionable. The DoJ only seized bank accounts belonging to sites. Pokerstars had segregated accounts not in the names of the owners, so the DoJ could not freeze that money. FTP/AP did not and had player funds seized. You are also right that playing poker is not illegal and no one with any brain thinks it is. However there is argument whether sites servicing players from the US is illegal and the DoJ currently takes the stance that it is. There is speculation that the feds could use the UIGEA to say that if servicing someone, say in New York, is against state law there that the UIGEA allows the federal government to enforce it.

Correct but they can make it illegal to service people from the US.

The DoJ claims they did not seize any player funds. They are technically correct.

They will 100% lose the bank fraud charge and it's not out of the realm of possibility that they would lose the UIGEA charges as well. The only chance they have is illegal gambling since I believe they are going with the wire act for that and poker generally has been ruled to not be covered by it. Either way they're going to end up settling most likely and probably paying a lot of money to the feds.
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