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Some poker trivia from here and there
Posted by: James Carter. - Fri, 2010-02-05 15:19
If you thought that depositing money to your favorite
online poker room was tough, wait till you get a load of this: Credit Card giant MasterCard has once again figured out how to make life harder for US players. The company managed to decode credit card transactions aimed at transferring funds to online poker and gambling operations and promptly moved to block all such funds transfers. Given the fact though that the last time MasterCard pulled a similar stunt, it only took gambling sites 2 months to come up with a solution, there’s still hope that MasterCard transfers will not vanish from the payment methods sections of online poker sites forever. For now though you’d do better to start looking for an alternative.
In an extremely rare online poker incident, a player found himself in the right spot at the right time at Cake poker the other day when he pocketed a pot he did not in fact win. Fortunately for the real winner of the hand, the de-facto winner went ahead and posted the hand on the twoplustwo forums, where it drew an almost immediate reaction from Cake Poker’s Cardroom Manager. As a direct consequence of the incident, the Cake servers were shut down for 30 minutes to allow the technical team to investigate and to implement measures meant to stop such incidents from ever occurring again.
The problem is however that the same sort of mess-up might’ve happened to other players in the past. Lee Jones, the Cardroom manager offered a way to log a complaint for those who think they may have been cheated by Cake Poker’s software in the past too.
Loto Quebec, Quebec’s gambling monopoly, has received the Canadian government’s permission to start up an online gambling site this fall. Loto Quebec is aiming to set up a fully regulated operation as an alternative for Canadian players to unregulated sites on which the Canadian gambling public is currently spending around $600 million each year.
The new operation will feature fool-proof age verification methods and anti problem-gambling measures, like self exclusion options and limits on player deposits.
