PokerStars.com Restricts Chinese Players
This was published 25-11-2010PokerStars, the world’s most popular online poker room, has announced that it has recently taken a drastic move by placing new restrictions to limit Chinese players’ access to the website in an attempt to curtail collusion between players in China.
Chinese players will in future not be permitted to play in the same sit-and-go tournaments together and only one single China-based player at a time will be allowed to play on a ring game table in order to prevent conspiracies among cheats.
This drastic move has been taken by PokerStars after experiencing huge problems with Chinese players conspiring amongst each other and the site has sent out an email to all its players in China, advising that the new restrictions would be implemented on all players from that part of the world, with immediate effect.
The casino uncovered a similar conspiracy involving China-based players at its double-or-nothing games a few months ago after which it instituted a similar rule. This resulted in PokerStars being forced to refund their clients’ accounts with over $2.1 million in order to compensate affected players.
PokerStars has advised its players based in China that they are able to play at any ring game that they wish but that once they are seated, no other player from their country will be allowed to join the table and if any other player from their country is already seated, they will not be able to join that particular table until they leave. Players were also advised that PokerStars regretted the inconvenience caused but that this new policy has been implemented in order to enhance the reputability of the games.
PokerStars.com is one of the most popular and top quality poker sites in the market today. It provides the highest level of customer service and offers a superb online poker experience as well as the most tournament and game variety and traffic on the net.
