Filipino can't play in Philippines?!!!!!!!!

Originally posted by MatejM47
Afaik you have to get a bank account or some utility bill your paying in the philipines in order to prove to pokerstars that you actually live there.

Originally posted by YinYangS


when did Philippines become a US territory? !!!!!!!!

Originally posted by MatejM47
RE-read it again. It says that residents of US or US territories are not allowed to play from ANYWHERE in the world. Meaning that if your US resident your not allowed to play from anywhere in the world when your on vacation. You have to actually move out and declare a new country of residency in order to get your account unlocked.

Just because you changed your adress in your PS account and have philli IP its still not enough for them to let you play.

Thats it as far as i know as i never had that problem. You should check out 2+2 travel forum or something since there's way more us expat's there who already made the move.

Originally posted by HollyMichelle
Hi there YinYangS!

Have you tried contacting PokerStars support to see what all this is about then?

It's the best advice I can offer you at the moment and please let us know what they say


Kind regards,
Gary

Originally posted by Krishjanis
God damn it, son! You just woke up as an American!
YEE-HAW!!!

Hello Glen,

Thank you for contacting us.

An initial review of your account has revealed that you appear to have used PokerStars real money services from the United States.

As you may already be aware, residents of the United States and United States Territories are not permitted to make deposits into their accounts or engage in real-money activity (game play, transfer of funds, or T$ trading) while physically located in US soil.

Same as above, residents of other nations are not permitted to engage in real-money activity (game play, transfer of funds, or T$ trading) while physically located in the United States. This applies even if you are a resident of another country.

While checking our reports, it appears you have logged on from a US IP. The IP address shown in your system is 112.211.189.108 which belongs to a United States military facility.

We want to confirm that any attempt to circumvent these restrictions is a breach of the PokerStars Terms of Service. This will lead to your account being closed and your account balance being forfeited.

PokerStars has further information on this information online here:
http://www.pokerstars.com/usaplayers/faq/

PokerStars’ Terms of Service is available on our website in full:
http://www.pokerstars.com/poker/room/tos/

If you are using a satellite, VPN, cable or router connection to appear in the US or are located in a US military base, we would recommend you not to use any of the above connections as this will generate doubts of your physical location and hence, this could lead to your account being closed and your account balance being forfeited as explained before. We suggest that you please contact your internet service provider and ask them to avoid assigning you IP addresses that belong to United States.

We trust that this has been helpful to you, but please feel free to email us anytime at us.investigations@pokerstars.com if you require any further clarification.

Regards,

Stephanny
PokerStars Security Team

Originally posted by VorpalF2F

Originally posted by YinYangS
Here is their reply. I can play real money again.

Hello Glen,
While checking our reports, it appears you have logged on from a US IP. The IP address shown in your system is 112.211.189.108 which belongs to a United States military facility.

We suggest that you please contact your internet service provider and ask them to avoid assigning you IP addresses that belong to United States.

or the most probably reason might be that someone was able to log-in to my account from there.

I think that Pokerstars advice to involve your ISP's technical people is very good advice indeed.

It is is entirely possible that some address formerly used by some US gov't agency has been re-purposed for local use and nobody told Pokerstars.

But PokerStars is very careful about avoiding any more trouble with the US Dept of Justice, and I'm sure you would hate to lose your bankroll over a clerical error.

Please, before you log in again, check w/ your ISP to ensure that they can verify that your IP address is indeed yours. Get a letter if you can.

If you've already done that, fantastic,

--VS