"registration policy for the WSOP wasn't changed "

[mhcmarty]

Has it been concluded that this is inaccurate?

Thompson said that the registration policy for the WSOP wasn't changed by the enactment of the UIGEA.

"There has been no change in our registration policy," he said. "We do not accept third-party registrations from online pay-to-play poker sites that do business with U.S. residents. We didn't do that in 2005 or 2006 either."

From pokerlistings.com

http://www.pokerlistings.com/tentati...-for-2007-wsop

[Kevmath]

Seems to be the case in 2005 at least, according to this article from 2005, go down to item #5.

[Shoe]

So they say the don't but do anyways? There are hundreds from 2+2 alone that qualifed online. Unless party and stars are not considered a third party somehow.

[JackOfSpeed]

I have a feeling we're not going to get a straight answer from harrah's until the tourney's already started.

[oyvindgee]

Isn't it possible that Party and Stars hired someone to do the actual registration for them?

[mhcmarty]

Last year I filled out all of the registration forms myself. Bodog provided the forms but I completed the paper work myself (including providing a Harrah's players card #). Bodog then forwarded the registration to Harrah's and wired the entry fee to Harrah's.

If Harrah's will accept "wire transfers" from on-line sites and I complete the registration forms myself then nothing really has changed for next year.

[GTL]

I was registered last year by a third party site. I dont understand what the hell they are talking about.

[pig4bill]

Neither do they.

[MrFizzbin]

While I don't know this for a fact here is my best guess.

Each of the online casinos might have been given an allocation of seats that they could use for their distribution, the prerequisite for purchases of seats is advertising. Third parties might be defined as those online rooms that didn't buy advertising but still wanted to have WSOP sats.

[JuntMonkey]

This is pretty [censored] significant guys.