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Growing network’s decision affects almost twenty skins
November 3, 2008 (InfoPowa News) — According to reports on several online poker information portals this week, the burgeoning Merge Gaming poker network has joined Microgaming in excluding Kentucky residents from all network activity, presumably as a precaution against the predatory behavior of Kentucky governor Steve Beshear and his contingency-contracted lawyers in their efforts to seize international domain names.
As far as can be ascertained, the ban does not apply to existing customers.
Merge has been around since early 2007, but its history goes back before then when it was better known as Poker.com. The network attracts around 4,300 simultaneous players on a good night and boasts almost 20 skins, including Poker Nordica, Iron Duke, Jam Poker, CarbonPoker, PDC Poker, Texas Holdem, Golden Arch Poker, Rumble Poker, Poker City, WalkerPoker, BetED Poker, PokerOne, RPM Poker,G2Gpoker, Spin32Poker, Lucky Hog, Reefer Poker, Wass Poker and ACED. The operation carries a Kahnwake licence.
Meanwhile, the characteristically outspoken owner of Doyles Room, poker legend Doyle Brunson, has spoken out against the Kentucky attempt to hijack global industry domain names, writing on his blog: “I’m not going to go into all the legal issues, but Kentucky is in for a hell of a battle and every legal opinion I’ve heard says they don’t have a chance of winning.”
Probably a wise move. I think most operators and providers will add Kentucky to their banned lists to avoid any annoying litigation.
Kentucky today, and who tomorrow ? This is a bad precedent to set, and you can now guarantee that other states will follow the Beshear way, if news like this continues. Also, Brunson has reverted to banning 13 states from access (KY included) to Doyles Room as of several days ago, so to me that doesn’t sound like he’s as confident as his comments allude to.
Poker Dude;184507 wrote:Also, Brunson has reverted to banning 13 states from access (KY included) to Doyles Room as of several days ago, so to me that doesn’t sound like he’s as confident as his comments allude to.Well is that not due to the network? Not much control over the ban since it was network wide.
