On April 15, 2011, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York seized and shut down Pokerstars and several of its competitors' sites, alleging that the sites were violating federal bank fraud and money laundering laws.
Part of the Flutter International division, we first launched in 2001 and have since become the largest poker site in the world, with more than 225 billion hands dealt and more than 1.85 billion tournaments hosted.