888’s services are no longer offered to players located in Serbia

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Few days ago I wrote that pokerstars, Betsson group and william hill left Serbian market in 2020 and I said to myself, dont worry we still have 888 to play, but yesterday my speculation was denied when I received an email from 888.com Team...
We would like to inform you that 888’s services are no longer offered to players located in Serbia and therefore your account will be closed as of 31/12/2020.

An unpleasant surprise because, 888 is/was my favorite room and now there are only a few rooms left in which we can play....:mad:
 
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Hardly a big surprice since it all seem to be caused by your local government regulations.
 
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Another one bites the dust - 888 exits Serbian Market

"We would like to inform you that 888’s services are no longer offered to players located in Serbia and therefore your account will be closed as of 31/12/2020.Please rest assured that your funds with us are secure and that you can withdraw them via the cashier, in accordance with our Withdrawal Policy.
Please contact Customer Services in case you experience any difficulties accessing your account or withdrawing your funds.

Best Regards,
888.com Team"

GG network still available, but for how long?

The problem is, Serbian market is probably too small for any poker room to pay the SICK amount the government is asking for the licence.
So it's easier to get out.

Shame, after PS, was my favorite room for over 10 yrs.
 
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What percentage of people in the world can say "I love my government"?
That's a shame.
 
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Can you still play on ACR , or ACR doesn't allow Serbians either ??

I guess most Serbians new the news , the many poker rooms that left the country , but still , 888poker , couldn't have sent the email 15 days earlier ? Why did it send it 2 or 1 and a half days earlier ?? Is this the most appropriate action ?? My answer NO .

Also , to anyone who hasn't played tourney tickets , will they exchange them for eal money $$ like PS does to players when it leaves a country , or will 888poker do the same as it did when it left Greece , meaning won't exchange them to ral money , but let them go to waste , either they were $0.10 and $1 ticket or higher value

Also the gold tokens , I think it's 1 for 1 cent , but in reality you can but with them tickets for less than 1 to 1 price (I think the $5.50 or 550 cents you buy it with 400 gold tokens or 400cents ) . So I guess they don't return the gold tokens , but even if they did , you would still lose value .

Great 888poker , just great . In how many countries does 888poker operate now?? i guess in some years or months from now you might be able to count them with the fingers one of your hands or both hands at the best , lol ..Thanks God there are these Russians and Ukranians to fill the poker rooms , lol :D
 
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I guess most Serbians new the news , the many poker rooms that left the country , but still , 888poker , couldn't have sent the email 15 days earlier ? Why did it send it 2 or 1 and a half days earlier ?? Is this the most appropriate action ?? My answer NO.

I agree, that it would be nice, if a poker site gave players more than 2 days warning before pulling out of a market, especially if this is something, they knew already for a while. But then again when a poker site leaves a market, it is going to lose those customers anyway, so there is no incentive to treat them well.

Great 888poker , just great . In how many countries does 888poker operate now?? i guess in some years or months from now you might be able to count them with the fingers one of your hands or both hands at the best , lol ..Thanks God there are these Russians and Ukranians to fill the poker rooms , lol :D

To be honest about it, it was not exactly serbian players, who made 888 Poker go around. I cant even remember, when is the last time, I saw a serbian player on 888. Which might also explain, why it would not be profitable for 888 to pay for a license to operate legally in Serbia ;)
 
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Great 888poker , just great . In how many countries does 888poker operate now??


Obviously dont know exact number but even in europe there are some countries where they operate illegally lol ...
 
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Obviously dont know exact number but even in europe there are some countries where they operate illegally lol ...

And also several, where they operate legally, like for instance Denmark and sweden.
 
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We would like to inform you that following the company’s decision, 888poker’s services are no longer being offered to players located in Bosnia and Herzegovina and therefore your account will be closed as of 10.07.2018.

Please rest assured that your funds with us are secure and that you can withdraw them via the cashier, in accordance with our Withdrawal Policy.

Please contact Customer Services in case you experience any difficulties accessing your account or withdrawing your funds.

Regards,
888poker Team

This is an email they sent me two and a half years ago. I mostly play freeroll tournaments. 888 had a lot of freerolls but almost all of them had a terrible structure, the blinds were growing too fast and the ante was huge and just "thundering" all-ins. It is almost impossible to sit at the final table with 10BB or more. I’m not sorry I don’t have the opportunity to play in their poker room anymore.
After 888, last year the citizens of my country were denied the opportunity to play at Bet at Home and Party Poker, and the HighStakes poker room ceased to exist. I have registered accounts in GGpoker, Unibet and AmericasCardroom, and with PokerStars where I have been for a long time, I do not feel the consequences of not being able to play in the poker rooms from which I was expelled.
 
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it's a real shame, how sorry I am friend. I have also had problems with some poker rooms since my country does not appear in them, it is the case of the "unibet" room that is not available in my country, some have recommended that I use an application called "VPN" to connect to one antenna from another country, but it would be useless because I could not validate my personal information, unless you have a relative in another country. :eek:
 
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And also several, where they operate legally, like for instance Denmark and Sweden.


In that case shouldn't Denmark and Sweden have even more Cardchatters then :hmmmm2:
 
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To be honest about it, it was not exactly serbian players, who made 888 Poker go around. I cant even remember, when is the last time, I saw a serbian player on 888. Which might also explain, why it would not be profitable for 888 to pay for a license to operate legally in Serbia ;)

Yeah , for sure , and who knows even from the existing 888poker Serbian players many might be fake , maybe using VPN , like for ex a Serbian player called PokerNLH_777 , I could bet my ass he's from Greece :D
 
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