It's official: Doyle's Room shuts out US Players

[GPWA Aaron]

This announcement is opened in a window when U.S. players open the DoylesRoom.com software ...

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IMPORTANT MESSAGE FOR US PLAYERS

Dear US Player,

As you may be aware, the management of the Doyle Brunson Poker Network has decided not to permit online real money play by US-based players.
US online poker players are not permitted to sign up for real money play or deposit funds into existing accounts. Commencing March 1, 2007, all US play on DoylesRoom.com will be blocked and US players will be able to access only the withdrawals page.

Please refer to your email for full details, including news of an exciting opportunity to transfer your account balance and action points to Full Tilt Poker.

If you have no yet received the email please contact customer services.

DoyleRoom.com will continue to serve non-US player and will increase its focus on Canada, Europe and Asia-Pacific.

We share your disappointment with this news and sincerely apologize for any inconveniences.

Thank you,
The Management
Doyle Brunson Poker Network

[vinism]

Did you folks notice this line about Full Tilt?

Please refer to your email for full details, including news of an exciting opportunity to transfer your account balance and action points to Full Tilt Poker.

Wonder what this means for rev shares? We'll see if we can try and find out. We'll post anything we learn here.

[GPWA Aaron]

Here's the story I've posted on our sites for now ... still waiting for more details on affiliate programs ...

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The Doyle Brunson Poker Network announced today that it would stop allowing U.S. players to play real-money games on its sites, effective March 1, 2007.

The Internet poker room, however, will allow existing players to transfer their money and "action points" to Full Tilt Poker accounts.

Players wishing to transfer balances to Full Tilt can easily do so using through the Doyle's Room cashier by simply providing their Full Tilt User ID and e-mail address. Those without Full Tilt accounts are offered a 100 percent signup bonus, up to $600. Those with existing Full Tilt accounts are not eligible for the bonus offer, but can still convert DBPN action points to Full Tilt points.

Members of Doyle's Club will earn one Full Tilt point for every four DBPN action points. VIP members will earn one Full Tilt point for every six DBPN action points, while all other tiers will get a 1:12 conversion rate.

DoylesRoom.com is the latest to join a growing list of Internet poker rooms that bans U.S. players from real-money games in the wake of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act and the exit of NETeller and other third party payment processors from the U.S. market.

[vinism]

If you sent U.S. players to Doyle's room, you're out of luck after Feb. 28 as far as commissions are concerned. They'll pay out Feb. commissions in early March. But if your players transfer to Full Tilt, they will not be honoring rev share agreements. Here's the note they sent affiliates:

Last week, the management of the Doyle Brunson Poker Network (DBPN) has reluctantly decided not to permit online real money play by US-based players in view of the passage of the Unlawful Internet Gaming Enforcement Act (UIGEA) and the cessation of operations by Neteller and other payment processors. US online poker players are not permitted to sign up for real money play or deposit funds into existing accounts. Commencing March 1, 2007, all US play on DoylesRoom.com will be blocked and US players will be able to access only the withdrawals page.
In light of these changes, we urge you to focus your recruitment efforts as a member of Doyle’s Room Affiliate Program only towards non US-resident individuals. Our department is working on new tools that will help you recruit more players outside the US-market. We’ll keep you posted.

Many of you have been contacting us, and we want to tell you that we truly care about your concerns. But unfortunately, the affiliates who had US-players as referrals will not continue receiving commissions after February 28th, 2007 since their play at DoylesRoom will cease on that date.
Our next affiliate payment for February’s play that will be processed during the first week of March will be paid as normal. However, no further payments will be processed for US-residents’ rake.
DoylesRoom.com will now increase its focus on Canada, Europe, Asia-Pacific and Latin America. We look forward to continuing working with you to help us grow in these markets.<o></o>
We would like to send special thanks for those affiliates that have been showing their support and want to keep on working with Doyle’s Room outside the US-market. We are committed to working closely with you.

If you have any questions, feel free to contact your affiliate account manager by sending an email to affiliates@dbpn.com<o>:p></o>:p>

Affiliate Department
DoylesRoom.com
affiliates@dbpn.com
From USA: +1 888 762 4192 Ext. 2800
From outside USA: +506 253 3984 Ext. 2800

[WinYourWayKyle]

This just goes to show how unstable it is to promote online gaming sites that are still accepting players in the US.... I would call it a quick cash grab for now, but I would not invest my advertising revenues trying to promote and get the US makrket to play at the sites that are still accepting US players.... Its time to take affiliate marketing efforts to other parts of the world....