Yahoo opens real money poker

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What are the Boss skins? Do they have rakeback?

[Municipal Hare]

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Glad I cant play there the poker buddy looks like it gives unfair advantage to fish not sure itd be beatable

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What's the poker buddy? Some kind of onscreen hand evaluator?

[shipitkthx]

If you are a canadian in this thread and complaining that you cannot play on this site, you are 100% completely retarded, ill let you figure out why.

edit: nm, looks like some others pointed it out

[agencia1]

aargh. someone please take a look and report back!
im so excited im ready to move to europe!

[Kano]

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Something doesn't add up here -- if the Yahoo poker site is a boss skin, you'd expect to see a huge jump in the # of cash game players on the boss network, but traffic hasn't changed according to:
http://pokersitescout.com/International_SiteDetail.asp

Just when did the yahoo poker site launch?
And are we sure that it actually SHARES the cash game tables with the other Boss skins, and isn't just licensing the same software (e.g. like how party and empire used to 'look' the same but have separate player bases after party dumped the skins)?

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Not sure when the poker site launched, but according to Pokernews.com, they are actually a Boss skin.

There may not be a big jump in Boss traffic because most likely they just joined the Boss network. Also, I would think a signficant percentage of Yahoo play money poker players are from the U.S. and Canada. Add in that they do not appear to have aggressively marketed their new real money site and it may take a bit before we see a jump in the Boss traffic.

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Those stats seem way off, I logged onto Virgin Poker (Boss network) and seen 6,700 players online which is a jump compared to normal traffic.

That was 10pm GMT last night.

There are 2797 at 384 tables right now which is pretty good considering the time o f day (11.23am GMT).

[Kano]

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What are the Boss skins? Do they have rakeback?

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Most do, here is a list:

(Note some of these may no longer US players in light of recent legislation)

Aces.com
Ahead Poker
AllStar
BeKingOfPoker
Bet Direct Casino
Betoto Poker Lounge
BetRoyalPoker
BetUSA
Capital Sports Poker
Casino Club Poker
Casino.Net
CelebPoker
EuroSuperPoker
Fonbet Poker
Fortune Poker
ImperialPoker
innigame.com
JuegaPokerYa
King Solomons Poker
landora poker
lastminute.com poker
Linesmaker Poker
London Poker Club
Maharajah Club
Mermaid Poker
MrPoker.com
PlayWebPoker
Poker Heaven
Poker Syndicate
Poker.co.uk
PokerHour
PokerWIDE
Ramblas
Sportingbet Poker
TGF Poker
Timbas Poker
TotalPoker
VIP Poker Club
Virgin Poker
WallStree Live Poker
Yahoo Poker

[GreatRakeback]

Bossmedia network in COMPLETELY CLOSED for US-Citizen. Even if you are an european and try to connect from US-IP you cant play.

[cj81]

This could have very interesting implications

[wurstkickel]

It's Flash client only. There seems to be no way of tracking your bonus in real-time in the Boss Flash client. Annoying.

[TylerD]

No discernible change in real money players:

http://www.pokersitescout.com/Intern...SiteDetail.asp