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So long, Party Poker

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Pilot, Oct 13, 2006.

  1. TheSportsPredictor

    TheSportsPredictor Well-Known Member

    ePassporte pulls out of the American market. Traffic on Internet poker sites has dropped by one-third.
     
  2. ucacm

    ucacm Active Member

    Where'd you get that figure? I haven't noticed a significant decline at all.
     
  3. slappy4428

    slappy4428 Active Member

    LOL?

    wait.. this is newsy. My bad.
     
  4. TheSportsPredictor

    TheSportsPredictor Well-Known Member

    http://www.compatiblepoker.com/usa.php#usapokerupdates
     
  5. 2muchcoffeeman

    2muchcoffeeman Well-Known Member

    To clarify: Traffic dropped one-third because epassporte pulled out of the US market, according to that site. It's not that epassporte pulled out because traffic had dropped; epassporte pulled out because of DoJ pressure under the UIGEA.
     
  6. TheSportsPredictor

    TheSportsPredictor Well-Known Member

    Antigua plans to legalize piracy of U.S. movies and music in response to the United States' policies against online gambling. This could also lead to legal pirating of Microsoft products.

    http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117982630.html?categoryid=1338&cs=1

    Slate.com predicted this when the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act was passed a year and a half ago:

    http://www.slate.com/id/2153352/
     
  7. ucacm

    ucacm Active Member

    FWIW, the website said that traffic was down 1/3 on Absolute and Cake Poker, two medium sized poker websites. Pokerstars and Full Tilt Poker, the two largest poker sites BY FAR (Poker Stars probably has 7-8 times the traffic of Absolute) are steady.
     
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