Online Sponsors' WSOP Payment Workaround
Published: Saturday, October 28, 2006 Online-Casinos.com
ONLINE SPONSORS HAVE A WSOP PAYMENT WORKAROUND
Sponsor companies have to think out of the box these days
The World Series of Poker organisers have not accepted third-party registrations for the $10 000 buy-in main event from online gambling companies with U.S. operations, but that hasn't stopped it from attracting record fields.
Tournament spokesman Gary Thompson said he remains confident that the US anti-online gambling legislation notwithstanding, 2007 will be another bumper year with a good crop of online qualifiers.
Thompson suggested that a loophole that allowed players who qualified online to pay their own entry fees directly, after being given the fees by online poker companies, would continue to pass muster with regulators.
The giant PokerStars.com said it paid the bill for 1 600 players who qualified online this year, while Bodog.com said it sent more than 500. Many other online poker operations ran tournaments with WSOP packages as top prizes, and some estimates were that as much as 50 percent of contestants came from the online sector last year.
"We're planning to accommodate a larger field than we ever before," Thompson said.
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