New UK Legislation

[DMorgan]

Email from full tilt yesterday confirmed business as usual until november 1st, I'm assuming the same can be said for .fr but if you email stars.com and put URGENT in the title and it comes from a supernova/SNE they usually get back to you within 10 minutes if its a simple yes/no answer

[Doobs]

I got a reply from stars.fr pretty quickly.  It is ok to carry on playing there until 1 November.  Still waiting on Winamax.

[Doobs]

I got a reply from stars.fr pretty quickly.  It is ok to carry on playing there until 1 November.  Still waiting on Winamax.

And now have confirmation it is ok to carry on playing on Winamax for another month.  I am on the phone, but can cut and paste later if anybody is interested. 

[cambridgealex]

Vive la France!

[TightEnd]

http://calvinayre.com/2014/10/03/poker/the-uk-gambling-commission-clarifies-auto-top-up-and-rebuy-regulation-and-its-good-news-for-grinders/

[tikay]

The legal challenge to PoC by has failed, after the judge ruled in favour of the UK Government. (source EGR).

The new Licensing regime will therefore commence in 3 weeks time, on November 1st.

[tikay]

Away from the UK, PKR have now pulled out of Italy (citing "difficult trading conditions") & Ladbrokes have withdrawn, for Regulatory reasons, from one of their former strongholds, Norway, in addition to several other jurisdictions. 

'Stars, as already reported, have withdrawn from over 20 different countries, again for Regulatory reasons.

[AndrewT]

Away from the UK, PKR have now pulled out of Italy (citing "difficult trading conditions")

Standard euphemism for 'no players'.

[bergeroo]

Seems like the legislation could have been a hell of a lot worse compared to the segregation and/or tax problems of other countries.

As I actually hardly spend any time in the UK I am still considering officially relocating to maintain the higher rewards on Stars and to get access to the French sites back again. Not sure if the hassle or other problems would be worth it

[Jamier-Host]

Winamax seemed to let me in ok this morning...

[tikay]

Winamax seemed to let me in ok this morning...

Some sites - not suggesting this is the case here - are not making the changes until Monday.

The GC have, sensibly, accepted that a Saturday is a really bad day to have to make wholesale changes, & especially - in every case for UK facing sites - get players to formally acknowledge the new T & C's, so the GC have allowed the date to move back to Monday 3rd November.

Please don't take this as gospel, but I know it to be true in the case of numerous sites.   

Amazingly, Unibet Customers will face a 2 hour scheduled site closure @ 7am on Monday to allow the changes to be made. Not sure I understand why, as all the necessary changes can be pre-prepared, & then the cat-flop opened when the time comes, but no doubt there is good reason.

[cambridgealex]

Got an email from fr saying it was the 3rd too. Assume winamax must be the same.