Yahoo Enters the Poker Party

Filed in archive Internet Poker on May 1, 2007

The internet is built around its search engines, and web-savvy people mostly likely could name the top two search engines.

Google is well-known for its eccentric headquarters and its ability to stay in a game that has chewed up many dot com companies by staying fresh. But, Google hasn't entered the virtual felt like Yahoo just has over the weekend.

Granted Yahoo Pokeris not available to those who reside in the United States due to the current law wrangling going on with the UIGEA, but its another sign (along with AOL Poker's World Series of Poker promotion) that large companies are seeing the potential profitablity from online poker and are starting to expand those wings from the play money games into real money.

Sign up bonuses and even a VIP club are included within Yahoo's poker site, meaning they'll have the structures in place to attract and hopefully retain the punters from the UK and Ireland.

Here's a small write up from the site about the terms and conditions under Boss Media (which is also handling Paradise Poker):

1. Who we are
St Minver Limited is a private limited company registered in Gibraltar under number 84248. Our registered office is 23 Portland House, Glacis Road, Gibraltar. We are licensed to provide online betting and gaming under an Internet Gaming Licence issued by the Government of Gibraltar. We run the Yahoo! Poker service and are licenced to use the "Yahoo!" brand by Yahoo! UK Limited. We provide all of the services relating to Yahoo! Poker and accordingly no services relating to Yahoo! Poker are provided by any of the Yahoo! group of companies. We have partnered with BOSS Media AB who are providers of the Poker software. We take our customers seriously and aim to provide you with the very best in gaming experience and customer support. If you have any queries concerning our provision of Poker to you, please contact our 24hr Customer Support on 0808 238 6063.

2. The important points
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. For example, it is prohibited for anyone located in Gibraltar or the United States of America to play.

We use automated checking on the site, including but not limited to the recognition of the geographical location of your IP address. We reserve the right to close your account if you in any way attempt to disguise or prevent us from identifying the IP address of the computer that you use to access our site.