Yahoo poker - not in Ireland?

pwd

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.

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?

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

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?

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

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.

ocallagh

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

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.

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

BigCityBanker

im pretty sure they run off boss

Grafter

BigCityBanker wrote: »

im pretty sure they run off boss

Poker Scout agrees with you.