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Note that they dont have an affiliate program. This is only for UK users right now, so i’d love to know what the Gooner thoughts on this are.
me? It’s been 4-5 years since I was UK domicilied.
:bigsmile:Perhaps Simmo?!
Anyway for what it’s worth …
Yahoo is … well … naff.
Is there anyone who uses the Yahoo portals as their home base any more? The whole look and feel of the place feels very off to me and I personally barely use them.
The Poker section that you’ve linked above continues that theme – and you might get a lot of pre-pubescent boys and girls playing but it hardly seems like it’s going to be a “big money” portal.
I’d expect to see a lot of FREE PLAY going on there – athought it’s faqscinating to see that they’ll offer rackback on a 10-1 scheme upto $1,000 !!!
What is good news is that a mainstream like YAHOO considers it acceptable for their UK portal to launch and offer REAL money poker.
:bigsmile:That has to be a blow to the mindset that online gambling is EVIL – and a step in the right direction for acceptance of online gaming.
Actually I AM surprised that YAHOO as an American company deems it acceptable to offer ONLINE POKER to foreign nationals through it’s UK offshoot – while knowing the situation back in the good ole US of A.
Surely no matter how the accounting works eventually the profits from this venture have to end up back in the parent company – and so we now have a US company making profits from online gaming.
So overall I’d see this as great publicity for the online gambling community as more evidence that online poker is entertainment – not EVIL … but I don’t expect this “tutti frutti” version to capture much of a market.
TheGooner wrote:Actually I AM surprised that YAHOO as an American company deems it acceptable to offer ONLINE POKER to foreign nationals through it’s UK offshoot – while knowing the situation back in the good ole US of A.Surely no matter how the accounting works eventually the profits from this venture have to end up back in the parent company – and so we now have a US company making profits from online gaming.
I as far as i know its has always been legal for US companies to offer online gambling services to foreigners. I think playboy run an online casino or something, a couple of other casinos have also tried but none of them have been successful. The fact Yahoo is based in the US is not a problem I think.
Naff = trying to hard, uncool, not as trendy as it’d like to be.
:hattip:And you miss my point about the US ownership of YAHOO.
If you have the US government trying the BIG BROTHER style thought control approach that online gambling is EVIL, a den of money laundering, and a refuge of terrorists ….
and then bright, bubbly, corporately responsible, NASDAQ listed YAHOO comes along quite happily to offer the exact same product to young foreign nationals …
… welll I’d say that’s quite a contrast …
sigh.gifHopefully this will also hope to generate a level headed public discussion on the UIGEA … and speed up the repeal process.
:Nod:TheGooner wrote:Naff = trying to hard, uncool, not as trendy as it’d like to be.
:hattip:And you miss my point about the US ownership of YAHOO.
If you have the US government trying the BIG BROTHER style thought control approach that online gambling is EVIL, a den of money laundering, and a refuge of terrorists ….
and then bright, bubbly, corporately responsible, NASDAQ listed YAHOO comes along quite happily to offer the exact same product to young foreign nationals …
… welll I’d say that’s quite a contrast …
sigh.gifHopefully this will also hope to generate a level headed public discussion on the UIGEA … and speed up the repeal process.
:Nod:In fact it is ridiculous how US don’t accept gambling
and an American company offers the game to foreign nationals. UK should prohibit any US company to offer the game. This is not acceptable in any ways. A clear protectionism: I sell to you but you cant sell to me. Europe should say: if you wanna sell gambling to us, then you must accept that we can sell the same to you.Someone should point this out to the WTO.
With my usual optimist hat on, I think this is a good thing.
I’ve long been disappointed that the major search engines treat non-US territories with the same rules, even though laws differ. The case of PPC for example: Google don’t allow gambling ads, anywhere, but that’s based on US legislation. In the UK, they could legally allow them if they wished and their US-centric policy is holding the industry back in areas where it is/will be properly regulated and controlled.
Yahoo doing this tells me two things: firstly, that they are prepared, and able, to distinguish between laws in localised jurisdictions, and secondly, that something like this can only help the profile of the gambling industry in the public sector. It helps to bring some more credibility to the poker market at the very least.
Just my £0.02.
It is definitely a positive development and Yahoo getting into this gets more credibility to the industry vis-a-vis the US issue.
Companies like Yahoo & MSN have been exploring opportunities to get into the Gaming industry since a few years and now that Yahoo has finally launched it’s product, there must be a strong game plan behind the move.
On a different note, if Yahoo sorts out the software and gets aggressive with marketing, it has the potential to get a huge chunk of the market. The entry barriers to this industry would become stronger than ever.
It would be good to see Yahoo’s policy towards affiliate marketing.
Interesting times…..
