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Yahoo poker - not in Ireland?

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  • 06-02-2009 8:32pm
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    pwd
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,284 ✭✭✭


    I was looking at poker on yahoo. There's no Ireland option in the dropdownlist for country (or eire or republic of ireland etc). Can you not use it here? Why would that be? It uses flash and runs in the browser instead of requiring a download.


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    #2
    pwd
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,284 ✭✭✭pwd


    It looks like it's not an omission - I tried registering with uk as country, and got a message saying I was trying to play from a prohibited network. Really curious as to why. Possibly a regulation in Ireland that disqualifies the site?


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    #3
    pwd
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,284 ✭✭✭pwd


    response from Y!
    Yahoo! Poker customer service wrote:
    Dear __,

    Thank you for the email.

    We can confirm that if your country is not listed in the drop down then it means that we do not offer poker games to be played is Ireland.

    However, you can check our yahoo terms and conditions:

    "Participation in online poker is illegal in some countries. It is your responsibility to ensure that the laws of the country in which you are resident or are located permit you to play Poker. You must not play Poker on this site where it is illegal or otherwise prohibited in your country. Any such illegal participation is void"

    If we can be of any further assistance, please do not hesitate to contact us.

    Kind Regards,

    Margaret King
    Customer Support Team

    not too informative or helpful


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    #4
    Slash/ED
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,163 ✭✭✭Slash/ED


    Seems weird, tell them online poker is blatantly not banned here and point to the number of Irish online poker skins as your evidence?


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    #5
    pwd
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,284 ✭✭✭pwd


    oh yeah I replied something like that. They replied:

    Thank you for the email regarding your poker account.

    We would like to inform you that we have forwarded your query to the relevant department and they will respond accordingly.

    If we can be of any further assistance, please do not hesitate to contact us.

    Kind Regards,

    Elisa di Cosimo

    I'll post up if i hear again from them


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    #6
    RoundTower
    Registered Users Posts: 5,083 ✭✭✭RoundTower


    there are no laws permitting or forbidding online poker sites to operate in Ireland. Yahoo probably didn't research this, so they took the safe option and didn't allow it at all.


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    ocallagh
    Registered Users Posts: 3,140 ✭✭✭ocallagh


    I remember trying to sign up about 2 years ago and it was the same deal


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    #8
    RoundTower
    Registered Users Posts: 5,083 ✭✭✭RoundTower


    they were on the tigergaming/Nine network as of a few years ago. If you want to play there, I'm sure there are a lot of skins that accept Irish players and probably have better compensation than Yahoo.


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    #9
    ocallagh
    Registered Users Posts: 3,140 ✭✭✭ocallagh


    I was actually in vegas at the time and someone (I think Oscar) mentioned they had just launched and we both reckoned it would be full of fish. Didn't even consider they were just a skin. Never got past the first page anyhow as Ireland was not on the dropdown


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    #10
    BigCityBanker
    Registered Users Posts: 4,751 ✭✭✭BigCityBanker


    im pretty sure they run off boss


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    #11
    Grafter
    Closed Accounts Posts: 938 ✭✭✭Grafter


    BigCityBanker wrote: »
    im pretty sure they run off boss

    Poker Scout agrees with you.


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