Pokerhost.com

[pizzicato]

Pokerhost just switched over to Tribeca. Reliable site? Any experiences.

Thanks in advance.

[Adam Selene]

That's odd, why would they switch to a network that is itself switching software?

PokerHost is SBG Global, which AFAIK is still US-facing.

Did they join Tribeca Tables Europe Ltd (which is moving to Playtech's iPoker platform), or the Doyle Brunson Poker Network (whose move has yet to be announced), or are they an independent Tribeca skin that will need to move again (like BetUS Poker).

If the latter two, perhaps this is an indication that Playtech will divest itself of Tribeca's poker software and/or US-facing network to its former licensees (Doyle's, Golden Palace, BetUS Poker, etc), who have until now been given 6 months to find a new home.

[Self Made]

They're owned by BetCris actually. I do see SBG Global has links to PokerHost. I'm not an expert on sportsbooks but I don't believe the two are connected. E.g. SBR rates BetCris an A+ and SBG a D-.

So PokerHost is owned by a reputable company.

They switched to Tribeca just before Tribeca announced they'd cease to do US business, and before Tribeca got bought out. Unfortunate timing for PokerHost.

There's only one Tribeca network. DBPN is just a company that runs rooms on that network.

[pizzicato]

Is it a bad idea to move money to Tribeca sites right now? Is it better to wait for everything to work itself out?

[Adam Selene]

Wow, what an ignorant and uninformed post. Why not google your claims before making such an errant arse of yourself?

PokerHost is operated by SBG Global

http://www.sbgglobal.com/poker/
http://www.pokerhost.com/about.html
http://www.google.com/search?q=SBG+Global+PokerHost


Americas Cardroom is operated by BetCRIS. It is on the OnGame Network and is itself moving to another platform within 6 months.

http://www.betcris.com/poker.aspx
http://www.americascardroom.com/


BetCRIS has no business relationship with SBG Global, nor with PokerHost.


Tribeca licensees fall in one of three categories:

a) those whose license contracts where included in the sale of Tribeca Tables Europe Ltd to PlayTech and will be migrated to the iPoker Network -- Blue Square Poker, PaddyPowerPoker, UK-Poker.net, Victor Chandler, etc.

b) those that are independent Tribeca skins that were not included in the sale -- Golden Palace Poker, BetUS Poker, Doyle's Room, etc. -- that have been given 6 months to find a new home.

c) those that were members of the Doyle Brunson Poker Network; the 25 sites listed here: http://www.dbpn.com/


A fourth category I didn't mention are all the Tain Network members, such as Expekt.com; as they wouldn't likely ever end up on Tribeca before the transition to iPoker.

So you claim that PokerHost joined Tribeca and inked the deal before the sale, so I presume they are in group (b) unless they decide to stay with PlayTech.

I realize that all sites are (at the moment) on the same network and platform, but some sites have their contract with DBPN instead; DBPN is going to split from Tribeca, and may even purchase the Tribeca poker platform. BetUS is rumored that it will join DBPN or go wherever Doyle does, and no idea about Golden Palace.


BTW, I wouldn't pay much credence to SBR ratings, SBR is a micky-mouse operation; and is on the verge of self destruction. They have always rated advertisers well and books that choose not to appease SBR unfairly.

[Self Made]

Sorry, I made a mental error. I guess I confused the two because they're both owned by sportsbooks. Yes, the PokerHost that just switched from Dobro to Tribeca is owned by SBG Global.

[Adam Selene]

No problem, sorry if I was harsh. Look at my country, I happen to know a bit about the local gaming industry.

They moved off Dobro and now Dobro is going to be much bigger (with Full Contact and Future Bet skins). Talk about bad timing.

I'm interested to know what Doyle, Golden Palance, BetUS and now Pokerhost are going to do.

Would have been great timing to have a poker product ready. This event probably saved Dobrosoft from obscurity, and Cake Poker definitely got a piece of the cake.

[snosse]

Hi everyone

As for Pokerhost, we are currently looking at a few options, we will not stay with Tribeca. We are an independent operator, I will tell you more very soon there are some great things in the works right now and hopefully I can disclose it her before christmas. The software that is Tribeca today will go to the grave once they have migrated all the remaining skins over to playtech.

cheers

magnus

[Sniper]

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Hi everyone

As for Pokerhost, we are currently looking at a few options, we will not stay with Tribeca. We are an independent operator, I will tell you more very soon there are some great things in the works right now and hopefully I can disclose it her before christmas. The software that is Tribeca today will go to the grave once they have migrated all the remaining skins over to playtech.

cheers

magnus

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Magnus... is there any more information on when the mass migrations to playtech will occur?

It sounds like you are going your own way... but I assume there is some coordination going on to sychronize all the movement.

[snosse]

Hi Sniper

I wish I could be more specific but not even Tribeca themselfs could answer that as there is a lot of technical issues that needs to be resolved when bringing Tain onboard, migrating this huge number of players is an awesome task. But it will happen during the first quarter of 2007 if all goes as planned. Basically how it works is that they will start migrating the players behind closed doors so to speak and when all is fine they turn the switch. This can be done while play is still going on at the old platform, this way there will be minimum downtime.

kind regards

magnus