The fallout from the aggressive actions of the U.S. Department of Justice against online gambling companies continued today. The company that bought out Bodog’s U.S-facing business last year has decided to stop taking new players from four U.S. states. A Bovada representative confirmed to OSGA that new players from Utah, New York, Washington and Maryland can no longer become members at Bovada.

In the wake of last week’s indictment of Bodog founder Calvin Ayre and dot com domain seizure, this move is not all that surprising and far from alarming. Many other sportsbooks and casinos as well as some poker networks have already implemented similar policies against states who have brought indictments against online gambling companies. Maryland and New York top this list. In addition, Washington state has a specific law barring Internet gambling and Utah has come out saying that they will ‘opt-out’ of any future federal legislation that permits online gambling.

In 2011, several sportsbooks stopped taking all new U.S. players in the wake of Black Friday and the subsequent seizure of dot com domains by the U.S. government. Players thought that this would be the end of places like BetUS, Sportsbook.com, The Greek and Hollywood. But just like those companies, the Bovada blockage of four states is just for new customers. Sportsbooks who stopped taking new players from the U.S. have all done quite well and because of many of the problems associated with new players, these books have thrived mining their existing customer databases.

Players who currently are active at Bovada from the aforementioned states are still eligible to play with the company and so far, so it the rest of the U.S. This is certainly not a reflection on the stability or reputation of Bovada, just another unfortunate sign of the times for U.S. online players.