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03-10-2007, 05:33 PM
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Re: Online poker in China, Taiwan
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taiwan's not a real country kids. [/ QUOTE ] Well, that depends on who you ask now, doesn't it? Either way, it sure seems like the wrong kind of debate for this forum... 
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#12
03-10-2007, 09:18 PM
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Re: Online poker in China, Taiwan
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[ QUOTE ] China blocks access to all the gambling sites. I played on PP in Taiwan, but that was 2 years ago. I don't see why there would be a problem to play in Taiwan though. [/ QUOTE ] It is not true. Mailand china blocked some online casinos. But most poker sites aren't blocked. Many chinese are playing poker at PS, Fulltilt, Ipoker network etc. now. As much as I now, only Pacific poker has been blocked because of CasinoOnNet. [/ QUOTE ] PartyPoker has voluntarily blocked all IP traffic from Mainland China while PartyPoker's corporate parent PartyGaming PLC negotiates for licenses with the China Welfare Lottery Administration, the China Ministry of Finance, and various regional lottery authorities. PartyGaming PLC is also negotiating with the Hong Kong Jockey Club (HKJC), which holds the gambling monopoly in Hong Kong (with the exception of neighborhood Mahjong "schools") for a partnership to offer Hong Kong residents legal online poker. Mainland China currently blocks 888.com because 888.com got a little bit too aggressive with its ambush marketing targeted toward China by 1) launching a website in simplified Chinese, 2) signing 19-year-old Mandarin Chinese-speaking snooker sensation Ding Junhui to a sponsorship contract, and 3) using European soccer, particularly English Premier League soccer club Middlesbrough and Spanish Primera Division soccer club Sevilla, to expose the 888 brand to TV viewers in China (Sevilla defeated Middlesbrough in the 2006 UEFA Cup Final.) -- As for Taiwan: the Ministry of Finance holds a gaming monopoly, and has recently started a new 5-year contract with ChinaTrust Financial (the corporate parent of ChinaTrust Bank of Taiwan) to run the Taiwan National Welfare Lottery. Ultimately, anyone who wants to offer legal online poker in Taiwan will have to negotiate with the Taiwan Ministry of Finance.
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#13
03-10-2007, 10:01 PM
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Re: Online poker in China, Taiwan
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[ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] China blocks access to all the gambling sites. I played on PP in Taiwan, but that was 2 years ago. I don't see why there would be a problem to play in Taiwan though. [/ QUOTE ] It is not true. Mailand china blocked some online casinos. But most poker sites aren't blocked. Many chinese are playing poker at PS, Fulltilt, Ipoker network etc. now. As much as I now, only Pacific poker has been blocked because of CasinoOnNet. [/ QUOTE ] PartyPoker has voluntarily blocked all IP traffic from Mainland China while PartyPoker's corporate parent PartyGaming PLC negotiates for licenses with the China Welfare Lottery Administration, the China Ministry of Finance, and various regional lottery authorities. PartyGaming PLC is also negotiating with the Hong Kong Jockey Club (HKJC), which holds the gambling monopoly in Hong Kong (with the exception of neighborhood Mahjong "schools") for a partnership to offer Hong Kong residents legal online poker. Mainland China currently blocks 888.com because 888.com got a little bit too aggressive with its ambush marketing targeted toward China by 1) launching a website in simplified Chinese, 2) signing 19-year-old Mandarin Chinese-speaking snooker sensation Ding Junhui to a sponsorship contract, and 3) using European soccer, particularly English Premier League soccer club Middlesbrough and Spanish Primera Division soccer club Sevilla, to expose the 888 brand to TV viewers in China (Sevilla defeated Middlesbrough in the 2006 UEFA Cup Final.) -- As for Taiwan: the Ministry of Finance holds a gaming monopoly, and has recently started a new 5-year contract with ChinaTrust Financial (the corporate parent of ChinaTrust Bank of Taiwan) to run the Taiwan National Welfare Lottery. Ultimately, anyone who wants to offer legal online poker in Taiwan will have to negotiate with the Taiwan Ministry of Finance. [/ QUOTE ] I played on PP in 2005 when I was in China. LOL at "China blocks access to all the gambling sites." Makes me really mad knowing that I can play on a ton of poker sites if I pay a visit to Communist China, while my choices are so limited here in "Land of the Free". Of course you don't hear that in the "free" media either.
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#14
03-10-2007, 10:25 PM
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Re: Online poker in China, Taiwan
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[ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] PartyPoker has voluntarily blocked all IP traffic from Mainland China while PartyPoker's corporate parent PartyGaming PLC negotiates for licenses with the China Welfare Lottery Administration, the China Ministry of Finance, and various regional lottery authorities. PartyGaming PLC is also negotiating with the Hong Kong Jockey Club (HKJC), which holds the gambling monopoly in Hong Kong (with the exception of neighborhood Mahjong "schools") for a partnership to offer Hong Kong residents legal online poker. Mainland China currently blocks 888.com because 888.com got a little bit too aggressive with its ambush marketing targeted toward China by 1) launching a website in simplified Chinese, 2) signing 19-year-old Mandarin Chinese-speaking snooker sensation Ding Junhui to a sponsorship contract, and 3) using European soccer, particularly English Premier League soccer club Middlesbrough and Spanish Primera Division soccer club Sevilla, to expose the 888 brand to TV viewers in China (Sevilla defeated Middlesbrough in the 2006 UEFA Cup Final.) -- As for Taiwan: the Ministry of Finance holds a gaming monopoly, and has recently started a new 5-year contract with ChinaTrust Financial (the corporate parent of ChinaTrust Bank of Taiwan) to run the Taiwan National Welfare Lottery. Ultimately, anyone who wants to offer legal online poker in Taiwan will have to negotiate with the Taiwan Ministry of Finance. [/ QUOTE ] How long have you been waiting to be able to use that tibit of knowledge? Ken
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#17
03-11-2007, 11:57 AM
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Re: Online poker in China, Taiwan
thanks for all the um, info...
i am not so much interested in 'offering online gaming in taiwan' as i am in finding out whether or not i can PLAY there. i dont suppose anyone lives/has lived in taiwan lately and knows the dealy there. it seems like people have said that they were able to access the real money sites in the not so distant past, but i am also wondering about moving funds. can i open a taiwanese bank account that will accept funds from an 'online gaming' site? i will post in a taiwan expat forum and see what i can find out olivert, given your extensive knowledge of the big picture gambling situation in 'greater china', is it reasonable to assume that you are living/have lived over there? if so, and if you dont mind my asking, what are you doing over there? liking it? at any rate, thanks for your assistance
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#20
03-11-2007, 02:55 PM
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Re: Online poker in China, Taiwan
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thanks for all the um, info... i am not so much interested in 'offering online gaming in taiwan' as i am in finding out whether or not i can PLAY there. i dont suppose anyone lives/has lived in taiwan lately and knows the dealy there. it seems like people have said that they were able to access the real money sites in the not so distant past, but i am also wondering about moving funds. can i open a taiwanese bank account that will accept funds from an 'online gaming' site? i will post in a taiwan expat forum and see what i can find out olivert, given your extensive knowledge of the big picture gambling situation in 'greater china', is it reasonable to assume that you are living/have lived over there? if so, and if you dont mind my asking, what are you doing over there? liking it? at any rate, thanks for your assistance [/ QUOTE ] as i've said before. i'm from taiwan, but here in the US now for studies. i go back every 2-3 months and will go back next 2 weeks. there has been no problems whatsoever with me accessing online gaming sites at all i stay in taiwan every summer and it has never been a problem
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