Legislation Summary Thread

[wins_pot]

help me out here, i've been out of the loop for ten days. this is what i know.....

1. party and dise are gone. you can still play on prima through pokershare.

2. firepay is gone, neteller is hedging. is neteller likely to be around in one year?

3. it's technically illegal to be an affiliate or to run an online poker site (this should implicate all of the full tilt principals), yet no one seems particualarly worried about this.

4. tv poker, tournaments. harrah's will no longer accept online qualifiers; their 3-yr deal w/ party is presumably done. many sites are pulling all print ads. any word on whether stars or tilt plan to continue tv ads? why hasn't wpt dropped the PCA? the future looks pretty good for the PPL (their main deal is with Yahoo, by the way).

any word on espn's plan? my guess is that the new harrah's/espn partnership will not work with online gaming sites at all.

BA

[Kevmath]

According to Harrah's, they haven't accepted 3rd party registrations from online sites since 2005. (http://www.pokerlistings.com/tentative-dates-set-for-2007-wsop)

The WSOP deal was with PartyPoker.net, which would seem to be alright.

If Yahoo's behind the PPL, couldn't they get on a better network than the former Pax (http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/poker/columns/story?columnist=gordon_phil&id=2632988) network?

[Zetack]

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According to Harrah's, they haven't accepted 3rd party registrations from online sites since 2005. (http://www.pokerlistings.com/tentative-dates-set-for-2007-wsop)

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Well that's really intriguing. However it works, they are saying their policy on online qualifiers hasn't changed. Perhaps that means that Stars can send 2000 people next year after all.

--Zetack

[wins_pot]

from what i heard (this is third-hand but seemingly reliable), Yahoo put up a lot of money and they are planning some kind of alternative distribution (online, probably) in addition to tv.