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Online poker assets seized

An advocacy group for online poker saidTuesday that the federal government has frozen more than $30million in the accounts of payment processors that handle thewinnings of thousands of online poker players.

The Justice Department long has maintained that Internetgambling is illegal, a view that the poker group challenges.

The Poker Players Alliance told The Associated Press that theU.S....

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