The 2nd-biggest poker company, PokerStars, asserts that Poker is not restricted by the new unexpected gambling ban. This recent ban sent gambling-related internet stocks diving, and the search engine marketers making money as poker affiliates were also reeling, as the bill would even make linking to gambling-related material illegal.
PokerStars, however, run by the Israeli Scheinberg family, has a different point of view:
"These provisions do not alter the U.S. legal situation with respect to online poker," privately-owned PokerStars said in a statement.
"Our business continues as before, open to players worldwide including the U.S.," it added. "You may play on our site as you did prior to the act."
They base this on the assertion that poker is a game of skill, not a game of chance. This point of view, however, is in stark contrast to that of PartyPoker, which said that the legislation would make it "practically impossible" to play poker in the US for money. Interesting!
So can we link to Poker ads or what? Arguably, Poker is a game of skill -- I agree. Few people can play that way, but if you have a great memory and can work out complex probabilities in your head quickly, the assertion is 100% correct. It depends on who's playing.
I'm not about to insert Poker affiliate banners here, but this is a wide open Pandora's box. Apparently, nobody in Congress can card-count. Why am I not surprised?
October 15th, 2006 at 6:01 am
Gambling Affiliates turn to Dating
Obviously Gambling has been a very lucrative business for online gambling and with recent bans throughout the online Gambling industry. Affiliates, who have been making their fortunes gambling, have been looking in other directions to find a source of business equally lucrative to substitute as an alternative.
Robert Fathers, the CEO of World Dating Partners, the largest social networking dating company worldwide says, “their has been an incredible upsurge with affiliates scrambling to own their own dating site with us, in order to equal the revenue that they used to earn in the gambling industry,” Further. “We have seen an incredible increase of over 100% in registrations with online gambling affiliates joining our system”.
The expertise that they bring to the online dating and adult dating industry is very welcome and compete in a way that is making many experienced dating affiliates look tame in comparison.
The dating industry has had its fair share of regulations imposed on the industry itself and sympathises with their predicament and we do all we can to help accommodate them into their new role in dating. In fact we are finding that on average ex-gambling affiliates are marking up over 50% more on average per month with their more diverse forms of marketing techniques and are finding extra benefits not seem before in their past with the benefits of recurring payments.
We hope to see further significant increases in new partners to www.world-dating-partners.com as word gets around and hope that we can give them the support in a new industry. World Dating Partners have Partner earning over $3 million a year in the past and are quite confident that our new friends will pop that figure as soon as they get into the swing of how the dating industry works.
October 15th, 2006 at 1:40 pm
I'm glad someone is standing up to this BS law. And they're right poker is a game of skill, a good player will win 90% of them time over a noob.