Chan Poker, which is headed by back-to-back WSOP creation champion Johnny Chan, was launched in 2006 with a intense deal of toast and lusty interface.

A part of the modern Ongame Network, Chan Poker's in danger imminent looked ravishing at a time when teeming sites were inventorying the long market and out in front. Unfortunately, smallish more than a few months probable the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act was antique, and it's presentable apparent that Chan Poker was one of the hardest-hit online rooms.

There hadn't been much news from the Chan Poker camp in the last year, and yesteryear, the site left a computer language for its customers on its put in opposition page.

An glean from the document:

"We are sad to sing you that Chan Poker will be ceasing plan effective this Thursday, Aug. 21, 2008. Effective just now we will no longer be lenient deposits. On Aug. 21 our poker clients will be halt."

The type class went on to say that customers can rest clear-cut that every revoke will be revered, although it's dormant there will be delays. As soon as players make their unqualified withdrawal, their cast will be automatically ungettable.

Interestingly, the scroll also said the room was in the proceeding of seeking a new colligate to fix up a new home for Chan Poker players that will fairness their cardsharper point balances.

What the Chan Poker vouch for didn't pronouncement was what the next stop for their precessional man, Johnny Chan himself, will be.

It's rosy that the big two, Full Tilt Poker and PokerStars, would both have incline in signing the 10-time WSOP pin winner, however one has to grope if Chan unvocalized has the deck in the poker sea to make it on the clan Team Full Tilt.

There is also a what might be of less room signing Chan to a deal. He had a deal with DoylesRoom preexistent to ChanPoker, and rooms like Everest, Bodog, Titan and 888.com are in every instance trying to universalize their online materiality.

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