Contrary to what has been reported on some gaming news sites yesterday, 49er Casino has not just withdrawn from the United States online gambling market, but has closed its cyber-doors for good. The online casino has instead implemented an understudy program with Bodog Casino, informing all current players that Bodog, along with their compatible Real Time Gaming software platform, has agreed to act as an adoptive parent, if you will, for the 49er Casino orphans. This isn't the first time that Bodog has acted as beneficiary of homeless players, and so no doubt is actively pursuing the acquisition of gaming site shutdowns.

Apparently, 49er Casino management informed its affiliates of the closure ahead of time. Considering nobody would be able to open accounts there any more, affiliate managers advised that all marketing campaigns and advertising should cease. Current account holders have until April 23rd to gamble their existing funds and continue playing 49er's casino games. After that time, however, all accounts will be frozen and remaining balances will begin to be sent out via mailed checks on April 30, 2007.

The remainder of 49er Casinos sister sites, which consist of SunPoker, Omni Casino and CSCasino, will also discontinue service to the United States (as well as Turkey), but in contrast to 49er, will keep their doors open to players in other regulated countries. The closing, it is reported, has nothing to do whatsoever with the fact that 49er Casino converted from Cryptologic software to Real Time Gaming. The difficult task of successfully processing financial transactions for U.S. players, who made up the vast majority of 49er Casinos customers, seems to be the chief factor in the shutdown.