Dropping Out of 5 Countries
It is important to remember, but at this point in time this story is more hear say than anything but the Entraction Poker Network is said to be ending service to Turkey, Israel, Canada, Norway, and Russia. Entraction has not released any official public statements yet but the reason is more than likely going to be something to do with legal trouble. In today’s online poker market networks are taking precautionary steps whenever they can as to not suffer the same blow as the big four sites on April 15th of this past year.
Post Black Friday is a completely different world for online poker players for a number of reasons. A number of nations (besides the US) have been putting all sorts of restrictions on online poker for various reasons. Earlier in the summer we heard a story about PokerStars vacating the Australian market as to avoid more legal trouble. What makes this story a little more credible is the email that was posted on the 2+2 forums. In part the email said this:
“We regret to inform you that Entraction will be blocking access to the Poker Network for the following five countries as of September 29th: Canada, Israel, Norway, Russia and Turkey.”
At this point the general thought is that this end of service is going to solely apply to poker and not affect the casino or sportsbooks. According to pokerscout.com, the Entraction Network is ranked 11th worldwide as far as traffic is concerned. We will keep you up to date with the latest on this situation as news reaches us.
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