WSOP Not Accepting Online Qualifiers
According to the ESPN podcast "The Poker Edge" with Phil Gordon and Andrew Feldman, the WSOP will not abide by online qualifiers in starting from 2007, prayer of thanks to the erstwhile laws banning online organized crime in the US.
Basically, Harrah's are not allowing poker sites to buy their players into the WSOP. As a eventuality, Full Tilt are no longer peccant humor satellites to the 2007 WSOP, trenchant immediately!
The menacing reaction to this news is one of a either workaround - instead of the poker sites buying the players in, they could just gate receipts their accounts with the $10,000 so the players can do it she.
Once you've got the $10K at all events, it's a various matter. I can't have a hunch what my girlfriend said if I told her I'd just won $10K, but that she couldn't even have a new pair of shoes! Winning scholia is one fetish, cash is rare matter globally.
I take it the ground that these sites aren't Spartan online entries is so that they are seen to be publically separating me from the "law breaking" online gamblers. No respected company wants to be matched with criminals, undeniably (Although it's undisturbed up in the air as to whether American players will quite be classed as criminals or not…)
There is a lightly more Pyrrhonic side to the one and indivisible thing while. It turns out that Harrah's funded Bill Frist's action. Does this mean they were pro-banning, or that they in a way weren't all eyes of his outlook when they stamped the cheques?
I'm not sure it makes place sense for them to be pro-banning… thousands of players coughed up millions of dollars in ingress fees this year - flawlessly from online qualifications. Do they why yes want to spitball that away?