Following their indictment by the U.S. Department of Justice on April 15th, 2011, Absolute Poker has now stopped real money play for their American customers. The owners and operators of Absolute Poker were named as defendants by the FBI, but kept their site open and active as normal for the last few days. Many in the online poker community felt this may be a sign that they would remain open while fighting the charges brought against them but that does not seem to be the case. Absolute Poker has changed their homepage domain to www.absolutepoker.eu.
Absolute Poker is now officially banning U.S. players from all real money games. Users from the US who manage to connect to the Absolute Poker client are greeted with the following announcement:
Some US players are saying they can still play real money games on Absolute Poker.