Mansion Poker wave farewell to the UK

[tikay]

Saw this in uk.pokernews.com.....

http://uk.pokernews.com/news/2014/09/mansion-poker-announces-exit-from-the-uk-14976.htm

[tikay]

Not sure if anyone remembers, but back in about 2007, when Mansion were moving into the UK Market, they had a daily $100,000 Guaranteed Tourney, quite a big deal back in those days.

blonde were given, I seem to recall, four Free Entries for blondes every day, and they ran the same deal on AWOP & THM I think.

Even so, it often made little more than $50,000 some days, & rarely more than $70,000. Yikes, that was some overlay - DAILY.

Their Site Pro was Mark "Mr Cool" Goodwin, who had, if the rumours were true, the best deal any poker pro ever had, private jets & all sorts. Times have changed, on both sides of the table.


 

[tikay]

The article included this footnote, too, though I've no idea if it has substance. Certainly, the new GC Licensing thing, & the upcoming change in the tax arrangemernts, will cause a few furrowed brows amongst some sites.

Many online gaming operators, especially the ones without a huge amount of player liquidity in the UK, may find the new gaming tax regime to be too restrictive and follow Mansion's lead. This might especially be the case for online poker operators with licenses in France that currently offering online gaming to players in the UK including Winamax and PokerStars.fr, which otherwise would risk to be subject to a costly double taxation.

[Marky147]

Yeah, got an email the other day about that.

It's been that long since I used my account, I couldn't even remember my login, nevermind the password!

Used to do a fair bit of work with them for Badbeat, but I think their interest in poker took a very similar line to Ladbrokes as time went by.

[tikay]

Yeah, got an email the other day about that.

It's been that long since I used my account, I couldn't even remember my login, nevermind the password!

Used to do a fair bit of work with them for Badbeat, but I think their interest in poker took a very similar line to Ladbrokes as time went by.

Yes.

When they first arrived, their software was really sharp & responsive, with novel features (for the time) such as "choose your seat". You pressed a button & the seats all sort of rotated. It was like a new toy then, but it's old hat now I suppose. I loved their software, it was really neat, but I gather they eventually became part of the ubiquitous I-poker network.

[tikay]

Yeah, got an email the other day about that.

It's been that long since I used my account, I couldn't even remember my login, nevermind the password!

Used to do a fair bit of work with them for Badbeat, but I think their interest in poker took a very similar line to Ladbrokes as time went by.

Were you based in BadBeat's Office, in London?

I visited it a few times, to meet Chris Smith. Chris was so helpful, & offered to assist blonde in any way he could if I ever asked. What is he doing these days?

[Marky147]

Yeah, got an email the other day about that.

It's been that long since I used my account, I couldn't even remember my login, nevermind the password!

Used to do a fair bit of work with them for Badbeat, but I think their interest in poker took a very similar line to Ladbrokes as time went by.

Were you based in BadBeat's Office, in London?

I visited it a few times, to meet Chris Smith. Chris was so helpful, & offered to assist blonde in any way he could if I ever asked. What is he doing these days?

I went up a few times when I played for them, but they had moved out of No1 Knightsbridge when I started working for them in 2009.

Chris is a great bloke, and would always go out of his way to help. John told me he was focusing on Manro Haydan nowadays,  and he has been in Monaco for a few years now, I think.

[RED-DOG]

When Mansion first kicked off they gave away 10 WSOP main event seats every night for about a month.

I still didn't get one. 

[vegaslover]

Whilst these offers were clearly mad, they did bring a lot of newbies to the market. Now obv they were unsustainable but nowadays most sites offer sod all. Sky probs have the best offers for micro/low stakes newbies, not harming their YoY figures

[SuuPRlim]

they used to have that tourney that overlayed a fortune every night, was sick

[DMorgan]

I went to the BadBeat office christmas party once. It was in Goole, which had essentially one train in and one train out every day.

[atdc21]

Are people from Goole, goolies ? 

[Marky147]

I went to the BadBeat office christmas party once. It was in Goole, which had essentially one train in and one train out every day.

LOL

John's other company had a block of offices in Snaith, so when they moved out of Knightsbridge, they moved the operation there. I drove up last time I was there, but I think the train station that I travelled to previously was Selby iirc

I remember staying at a pub in Goole, when I was up there for a week working out of the office. The pub had little chalets built out the back of the place, and I think the boozer itself was a converted house.

Pretty quiet place anyway, and definitely don't think they'd ever had guests in doing Jaegerbombs until 2am on a Wednesday night before!

[RED-DOG]

Are people from Goole, goolies ? 

Even if they are they're still better off than people from Scunthorpe.

[bergeroo]

Anyone remember the free bet up to 1k on the Steelers in the first game of the NFL season. Maybe 2006?