Russian ISPs Block Gambling Sites, Including Poker Stars

[HollyMichelle13]

Awful. Just. Awful!!! :bootyshak

No no no no no.

This is awful!

 

[Poker Orifice]

nice too see Canada at the top of PLB Rankings

yah but probably half those points (or more?) are coming from US players who've migrated to canada to play the pokerz

 

[JaxA]

Russians can't play online poker?

Crimea river!

Awesome. Just awesome. Lmao

 

[NightFun]

yah, so what's the reasoning on this anyway? Are Russian authorities trying to hurt pokerstars et al pocketbooks or their own people? Oh - perhaps they are 'protecting' their Russian people....they are getting good at doing this lately

 

[vnonline]

Russians are still in games, Nothing changed

 

[jancika77]

Bad news for poker community. poker sites are getting restricted and it will hurt them and poker players.

 

[Aces2w1n]

It's a war on poker online.... Not just about Russia... Everyones following the states and the U.s need to get poker back up online.

Talk about being fcked situation.

Too much money is going overseas and the governments are catching on. simple it's all about money going out of the control. They don't want this obviously.

 

[steffdbird]

I don't see any reduction in players from russia, In fact my 90 man game had 36 russians lol

 

[onlinenat]

It looks like to me the extremes of this story may of been a lil exaggerated. Which I'm glad we need all the players online that we can get. I don't think we could handle a Russian BF or Canadian BF lol

 

[SANDYHOOKER KY]

poker stars has 50 million registered users, don't think the loss of Russian players is going to make much of a dent in the player pool. As to the point brought up in a post above, if Russia wants the site to quit providing services to the Russian people, but -P-S continues to do so, then why is the U.S.A blocked out? I think Russia has only stated it wants to block Russian people from gaining access to the site and has not actually told P-S to back off, but i wonder, what if say, Poker Stars said kiss our butt's, we ain't blocking nobody. What would the U.S.A or Russia do? Go to war over it? Wouldn't that be the berries.

 

[Tammy]

Well, there's this little thing called a federal indictment (which is what happened for PokerStars in the US), where leaders in the company are then in danger of being arrested, and having their assets seized by the DOJ. I don't know if Russia has a similar system in place (I'm sure they do), but if so, they just haven't acted on it yet.

 

[hashtag]

yah, so what's the reasoning on this anyway? Are Russian authorities trying to hurt PokerStars et al pocketbooks or their own people? Oh - perhaps they are 'protecting' their Russian people....they are getting good at doing this lately

Well, stars is an American company and America are currently pushing the EU to impose various sanctions on Russia over the Crimea incident. That will affect all manner of Russian companies. Russia in turn are threatening to impose their own countermeasures against said states. The timing is very telling here. Also, the news article says "Numerous sites are being blocked", so not all sites? Just the ones not suiting the Russian agenda.

 

[Poker Orifice]

Poker Stars has 50 million registered users, don't think the loss of Russian players is going to make much of a dent in the player pool. As to the point brought up in a post above, if Russia wants the site to quit providing services to the Russian people, but -P-S continues to do so, then why is the U.S.A blocked out? I think Russia has only stated it wants to block Russian people from gaining access to the site and has not actually told P-S to back off, but i wonder, what if say, Poker Stars said kiss our butt's, we ain't blocking nobody. What would the U.S.A or Russia do? Go to war over it? Wouldn't that be the berries.

google search > Black Friday online poker

 

[NightFun]

it's very interesting to get everyone's take on all of this...but by the sounds of it there are still Russian players, at least for now.

 

[supertight]

russians

russian dont really play very well ,and plays like idiots most destroying a play of poker good for them to locked.

 

[shinedown.45]

russian dont really play very well ,and plays like idiots most destroying a play of poker good for them to locked.

Don't just single out Russian players, there are alot of bad players out there from many different countries.
I'm from Canada and I have met horrible players who are also from Canada.
Considering the sheer size of Russia, you will always run into a large number of players where a large percentage are bad players just like any other Country.

As for them being locked out..................the fishing hole will become considerably smaller.

 

[DonV73]

As far as I know, Russia only announced it will block PS in the near future, but has not actually done it.

So many countries are regulating pokersites atm.. blocking of sites going on all over the world.

And personally, I would be one happy guy when Russians cannot play on the same site as I do anymore

 

[fletchdad]

Any country being shut out of online poker is only bad news for the industry as a whole. How "good" or "bad" they are (lol @labeling an entire country of players) is irrelevant to the big picture.

I hope this gets resolved in a non black Friday way........:-(

 

[HollyMichelle13]

In Russia, poker plays you.

Doesn't seem like there has been any changes at all. There is still plenty of Russian players in my games and in other games.

Somebody was blowing smoke IMHO.

 

[kidkvno1]

Well, stars is an American company and America are currently pushing the EU to impose various sanctions on Russia over the Crimea incident. That will affect all manner of Russian companies. Russia in turn are threatening to impose their own countermeasures against said states. The timing is very telling here. Also, the news article says "Numerous sites are being blocked", so not all sites? Just the ones not suiting the Russian agenda.

Stars is not a US company, you best reread up on it.

 

[TrueBloodz07]

i've read it as well. lot of russian players on pokerstars..
but i don't get how come they are still there lol?
if online poker is banned in russia

 

[ccocco]

I do not get ahead of the facts, yet still playing in Russia, may never pass. see

 

[Pandaaaaa88]

lol, im from Russia and i can tell that providers ban sites like ps.com but not ps.eu thats all, platform works without any problems

 

[guicor30]

then it would be two U.S. and Russia, who else will join?
maybe then follow England.

 

[AtiFCOD]

I think they will find a way to play at PS (eg vpn servers). Russians cant be stopped if they want something, and if they want to play at PS, they will play at PS.