Harrahs on WSOP Online Qualifiers

[*TT*]

original article

Next Year's WSOP Field Will Probably Be Smaller Thanks to Law Change
With the signing of the Safe Harbor Act by President Bush today, more and more questions surround online poker sites and their US-based satellite entry tournament policies for World Series of Poker events.

Gary Thompson, director of communications for Harrah’s, wrote in a letter acquired by Card Player:

“While we’re still reviewing registration requirements, it’s likely we will accept third-party registrations from entities such as charitable and civic organizations and offline tribal and commercial casinos in the US and abroad with whom we have licensing agreements to conduct WSOP satellites, as well as entities for which we have sponsorship agreements that run contests for their customers. We will most likely not be accepting third-party registrations from other entities. We will, of course, continue to accept registrations from individuals.”

Card Player estimates that almost half of the more than 8,700 entrants in this year’s main event earmed their buy-ins through online satelittes.

One response to the satellite issue comes from Full Tilt Poker. Instead of providing players with tournament buy-ins at the actual tournament, the site will now award cash payouts (for the value of the prize package) to players through their Full Tilt Poker accounts and let the players register for the tournaments on their own accord.

[Jack Bando]

Couldn't the sites give you a voucher, which you give to them at the WSOP for cash? Just thinking here.

[Someone]

[ QUOTE ]
“While we’re still reviewing registration requirements, it’s likely we will accept third-party registrations from entities such as charitable and civic organizations and offline tribal and commercial casinos in the US and abroad with whom we have licensing agreements to conduct WSOP satellites, as well as entities for which we have sponsorship agreements that run contests for their customers. We will most likely not be accepting third-party registrations from other entities. We will, of course, continue to accept registrations from individuals.”

[/ QUOTE ]
Doesn't this look like they want <insert_site> to pay for running sattelites and promotions?
No free adverstising for <insert_site> with any WSOP stuff.

[sandycove]

Ah, there’s the rub…

In spite of all this huffing and puffing and iffing and butting, there was a synergy with poker books and poker magazines and poker television shows and poker tours and poker tournaments and poker finance and poker player attraction and acquisition and retention, and poker this and poker that…

It was all buttressed by an American market that shipped its dollars to offshore ventures that operated outside the system.

The system bit back. And the poker boom is history.

(And all this Far East chit chat is silly and, for Americans, irrelevant. Westerners have failed at this kind of plunder before, and will again.)

Humpty Dumpty will not be put together again.