Almost Twenty Skins Affected By Growing Network's Decision

It is now being reported this week, by several online poker information portals, that the major online gaming supplier, Microgaming, has been joining strategy  with the growing Merge Gaming poker network, in their mutual exclusion of Kentucky residents from all of their network activity. This is presumably being done as a precaution against the rapacious behavior of Kentucky governor Steve Beshear and his contingency-contracted lawyers as they are endeavoring to seize international domain names.

As much as it can be determined, the ban does not seem to apply to existing customers.

Originally known as Poker.com, Merge however, has been around since early 2007.On a particularly good night, the network usually attracts around 4,300 simultaneous players, and in addition, boasts almost 20 skins, including CarbonPoker, Poker Nordica, Iron Duke, Jam Poker, Texas Holdem, PDC Poker, Golden Arch Poker, G2Gpoker, Rumble Poker, Poker City, WalkerPoker, BetED Poker, RPM Poker, Spin32Poker, Lucky Hog, PokerOne, Reefer Poker, Wass Poker as well as ACED. The operation operates using a Kahnawake licence.

Meanwhile, Doyle Brunson, who is known to be outspoken and is a poker legend, through writing on his blog, has spoken out against this attempt on the part of Kentucky to hi-jack global industry domain names. He says that he is not going to explain all the legal issues, but that in his opinion, Kentucky is in for a hell of a battle and that every legal opinion that he has heard says they don’t have a chance of winning.

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