Unconfirmed reports have been circulating around poker message boards that FBI agents have been watching Full Tilt Poker. Full Tilt is the second largest online poker site.
The federal agency apparently has been in contact with players from Washington State, the only state in the USA where gambling laws specifically target online players. Players from the state that have been contacted may have been warned that charges against them are pending.
Some say that the visits from the FBI are not aimed at players specifically but are being done in preparation of the enforcement of the UIGEA, whose regulations will come into force on the 1st of June. Speculations are that the agency is looking more into the financial transactions than players.
Players who were visited unannounced by the agents appeared to confirm this view, saying that the agents were almost exclusively interested in how transactions with Full Tilt worked. Several felt that the enquiries suggested an information-seeking intention, perhaps indicating that a case was being assembled to short-circuit financial transactions with the online poker provider once the UIGEA is in effect.
