Friday, Feb. 16, 2007

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Tribeca Tables stops U.S. players

By Erik Sylven

Online poker network Tribeca Tables has realized its plans to stop U.S. customers from playing on its member poker sites. The move was announced in November 2006, when the company was acquired by PlayTech.

As of yesterday, no new players from the U.S. will be allowed on the Tribeca Tables sites. Effective February 28, all U.S. IPs will be banned.

Tribeca Tables announced in November that it would not accept U.S. customers in the future, but no date for when the ban would be realized was set.

Several days after the announcement, Tribeca Tables was acquired by Playtech, the software developer running iPoker, a poker network that doesn't allow players from the United States.

The networks are about to merge, and possibly as a result of that, Tribeca Tables has decided to ban U.S. players effective immediately.

DoylesRoom.com and several other poker sites have decided to leave Tribeca Tables to form a new network that accepts U.S. players. When the new network will be up and running has not been announced.

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