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MERGE network
« on: November 05, 2008, 06:29:24 PM »
Merge Poker network bans Kentucky players
11/04/2008

According to reports on several online poker information portals this week, the burgeoning Merge Gaming poker network has joined Microgaming in excluding Kentucky residents from all network activity, presumably as a precaution against the predatory behaviour of Kentucky governor Steve Beshear and his contingency-contracted lawyers in their efforts to seize international domain names.
As far as can be ascertained, the ban does not apply to existing customers.

Merge has been around since early 2007, but its history goes back before then when it was better known as Poker.com. The network attracts around 4 300 simultaneous players on a good night and boasts almost 20 skins, including Poker PokerNordica, Ironduke, Jam Poker, Carbon, PDCPoker Poker, Texas Holdem, Golden Arch Poker, Rumble Poker, Poker City, WalkerPoker, BetED Poker, PokerOne, RPM poker Poker,G2G, Spin32Poker, Lucky Hog, Reefer Poker, Wass Poker and Aced. The operation carries a Kahnwake licence.

Meanwhile, the characteristically outspoken owner of DoylesRoom Room, poker legend Doyle Brunson, has spoken out against the Kentucky attempt to hi-jack global industry domain names, writing on his blog: "I’m not going to go into all the legal issues, but Kentucky is in for a hell of a battle and every legal opinion I’ve heard says they don’t have a chance of winning."

http://www.reviewed-poker.com/poker_news/1104082.php
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Re: MERGE network
« Reply #1 on: November 05, 2008, 08:06:41 PM »
I read something similar, but the Kentucky State court is going to here both sides near the end of this month!  Sad that state governments seem to be going on their own paths instead of working together.  Scaring more than just poker sites, make you wonder if any poker playing people are complaining at all to them of how unfair it is!
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Re: MERGE network
« Reply #2 on: November 05, 2008, 08:22:40 PM »
Yes people have complained. The problem with Kentucky doing this it could open up many more cans of worms outside of gaming. One state doesn't like a certain thing on the web so they decide to take over the domains where it stops no one knows.
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