It will soon be all over for the online poker room of World Poker Tour. A few years ago World Poker Tour opened their own poker client on the Cryptoligic Network in order to host online satellites to their land based tournaments. This did not work out as well as they thought it would and when the UIGEA passed they were no longer able to accept players from the US which made it hard to compete with[...] Read more » WPT are closing down their Online Poker Room
Has any of BRM members ever played in this room? How did they think to face the competitions with monsters like Full Tilt and, most of all, Pokestars ??
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Tough times for the Cryptologic network. Littlewoods have left to join Pacific and Lucky Ace in their network and now WPT is closing down. Time that the UIGEA gets overturned.
I think sites going bust or networks struggling is the whole idea UIGEA. Against online poker and the such, so i guess these people who wanted it will see things like this as a victory, which I think stinks, isn't the USA meant to be the "Beacon Of Democracy". How can it be when it dictates what it's people can and can't do, yet they have the gambling capital of the world in Las Vegas.
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Its becomming a trend right now that pokerrooms are closing down. First Duplicate poker now this. WPT is a big trademark. Im supriced they didnt manage to get more players to their site Hopefully it ends with them.
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Posted by kingpapet: Its becomming a trend right now that pokerrooms are closing down. First Duplicate poker now this. WPT is a big trademark. Im supriced they didnt manage to get more players to their site Hopefully it ends with them.
I doubt that. With the poker boom a lot of rooms have been introduced. They will not all survive the current economic downswing. We will see a lot of the smaller rooms/networks in problems.
Now William Hill is the next Cryptologic Site that leave the network after Littlewoods and Poker Plex, its a shame i realy like playing Crypto my Home there is Interpoker nd its always a pleasure to play there , William Hill move to the ipoker network, I also heard rumors that Cryptologic think about to merge with Partypoker , would that mean our Crypto accpounts will be granfathered from Partypoker and then elegible for rakeback on Partypoker ???? now that were a gr8t deal lets wait what will happen
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Yep. Will Hill will join ipoker in January. But i can't see rakeback accounts for the crypto sites at party. The loose party fishes would get slaughtert by the tight crypto players.
i played there through a no deposit bonus, which isnt given anymore, through another affiliate... i liked their layout. it was funny to play there. i made good cash there, regarding the argument that i only played NL 10.
