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Two founders of Neteller were arrested Monday in US Airports, on charges of money laundering tied to their creation of the popular e-wallet company.

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As reported by Haley at Pokernews -

Approximately $13,000 was seized in the raid, reportedly all the money in possession of all people in the building, while two firearms were among the other items seized. Besides the tables, cards and other gaming equipment, additional seized property included two computers, several flat-screen TVs and a currency-counting machine.

This leads me to think it might be good to bring only a portion of your ‘roll when you head out to the underground games this week.

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Haley over at Pokernews does a great job of covering the big Sunday weekly tourneys every weekend, and this week is no exception, as Pokerstars landed their biggest tournament prize pool EVER for a non-WCOOP event.

Here’s Haley’s take on the big weekly at our favorite poker site -

Full Tilt $400,000 Guaranteed

2,473 players joined the action in Full Tilt’s $400,000 Guarantee, generating a prize fund of $494,600. 351 people made the money, with first prize topping $90,000 ‘imgrinding’ was the runaway leader as this event’s final table began, his $2.75 million in chips more than three times the closest competitor. The first final-table knockout occurred on the very first hand, when a ‘Kush789′ pushed from the small blind with a suited A-7, but ‘ESPIGA’ made the call from the big blind with A-J, which stood up.

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