Real money poker on Yahoo... huh?

[vyni]

From http://gamingintelligencegroup.com/gig/ ... iew/262/2/
Yahoo have launched real money online poker on Yahoo.co.uk. Yahoo Poker has partnered with St. Minver Ltd., the white-label online gaming specialists from Gibraltar and join IPN, the International Poker Network owned and operated by Sweden’s Boss Media AB....

... Both PartyGaming and PokerStars have previously stated that the real competition starts when the first of the online giants enters the online poker industry, and the first out is Yahoo! We can only wait and see who follows, but the obvious names are E-bay, Google and Microsoft. For all three companies, the addition of online poker would be highly profitable and it would almost seem wrong if they did not consider it at some point in the near future.

Clearly, I've missed something here.

[khaosanroad]

Honestly this does not surprise me at all. Yahoo Poker even rolls off the tongue nicely.

[UrAteUp]

Get in there fast to all you non US players. The fish will be running wild for awhile. Might as well be a shark while you can.

[General Sal]

Wow... I don't know if I can see eBay actually doing texasholdem. I remember once a long time ago being able to deposit into a pokerroom through PayPal. Eventually, eBay bought PayPal, and PayPal stopped money transfers to gambling sites a loooong time ago.

[vyni]

I think what isn't setting right for me is the whole American entity offering online wagering to other countries. Yahoo is not the first, I know, but something about it just doesn't feel right.

I supposedly can't sit down this evening and play poker on my laptop (which is itself still in question: for now they've just made it ridiculous to deposit and withdraw), but as an American entity I can profit on allowing Europeans to do so? It just doesn't feel right to me.

I mean, if this is legal.... why can't we open a poker room ourselves? Is this something we should consider, though I'm not suggesting it. lol. Is there nothing legally stopping us from doing so, provided we served only clients in jurisdictions where the service itself is legal (regardless of the fact that the service is supposedly criminal in our own)?

It just stinks to me.
What a world.
lol


but yes, I can see the long term big players in poker (especially if the US would move towards regulation). Yahoo obviously would do very well, but I think their numbers would pale in comparison with the potential in msn (playing poker with your .net passports? lol). Biggest fish pond, with doubt would absolutely be an AOL sponsored/promoted poker room. omfg can you imagine that one? lol

[khaosanroad]

I think what isn't setting right for me is the whole American entity offering online wagering to other countries. Yahoo is not the first, I know, but something about it just doesn't feel right.

I supposedly can't sit down this evening and play poker on my laptop (which is itself still in question: for now they've just made it ridiculous to deposit and withdraw), but as an American entity I can profit on allowing Europeans to do so? It just doesn't feel right to me.

I mean, if this is legal.... why can't we open a poker room ourselves? Is this something we should consider, though I'm not suggesting it. lol. Is there nothing legally stopping us from doing so, provided we served only clients in jurisdictions where the service itself is legal (regardless of the fact that the service is supposedly criminal in our own)?

It just stinks to me.
What a world.
lol


but yes, I can see the long term big players in poker (especially if the US would move towards regulation). Yahoo obviously would do very well, but I think their numbers would pale in comparison with the potential in msn (playing poker with your .net passports? lol). Biggest fish pond, with doubt would absolutely be an AOL sponsored/promoted poker room. omfg can you imagine that one? lol

Yes you can open your own online poker room if all your customers are within the same state and that state has not banned poker.

[HarleyPete]

Wow... I don't know if I can see eBay actually doing texasholdem. I remember once a long time ago being able to deposit into a pokerroom through PayPal. Eventually, eBay bought PayPal, and PayPal stopped money transfers to gambling sites a loooong time ago.

There still is at least one poker site that accepts Paypal. That is Ladbrokes Poker. Deposited there yesterday with Paypal.