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PokerStars is taking aim once again at the cash game ecology, this time with “active waiting lists” that will award seats to games in a new, semi-random fashion.

Isai Scheinberg pled guilty to that charge in March, after surrendering to US authorities in January following his arrest the previous summer in Switzerland.

A user on the 2+2 online poker forum posted a screenshot of a message from Stars Support informing one of its customers that “as of 1st of September we’ll be exiting China, Taiwan and Macau.”

. A couple of the tournaments, including the Main Event, are still running due to being two-day events, but some of the world’s best players got their hands on a title and a significant chunk of change.

The very popular and highly requested dark mode feature will soon be rolled out to the PokerStars desktop client, pokerfuse can exclusively reveal.

The Main Event of SCOOP has a long and storied history of paying out some of the biggest prizes in online poker.

Scheinberg, 73, a dual Canadian and Israeli national, was arrested in Switzerland in June 2019 and was brought to the U.S. in January after dropping an extradition challenge. He faces as long as five years in prison at sentencing, which has yet to be set. Under his plea agreement, prosecutors agreed to seek a sentence of 12 to 18 months.

Isai Scheinberg, the founder of online poker giant PokerStars, has travelled to the US to face charges of gambling, bank fraud and money laundering first filed in 2011.

Asia is home to some of the richest players and games in the world, but at the grassroots level, many aspiring players earn less than their counterparts in countries such as the US.

PokerStars’ most prestigious online series, the World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP), has awarded a record-breaking $104.7 million across 20 days of top tournament action.