Online Poker Hearing in August

Account Services, a payment processor that handles online poker transactions, will be attending a hear scheduled for August 21st regarding $14 million in poker funds seized from them by the US Department of Justice. The hearing was initially scheduled for August 14th but has been pushed back a week. The Poker Players Alliance had filed a motion with the United States District Court for the Southern District of California, where the hearing is to be held, to allow them to appear and present an amicus brief, and the motion was granted by the court.