Doyle's Room - 13 States Blocked

[Pocket 3s]

Dear Affiliate,

We have received notice from our poker software provider that as of Wednesday, October 29th, they will begin blocking connections from 13 U.S. states based on IP address. Therefore, we are sending an email to all those players that may be affected by this block. Below you will find a copy of this email.



Dear Player,

We have received notice from our poker software provider that as of Wednesday, October 29th, they will begin blocking connections from 13 U.S. states based on IP address.

If your internet service provider is based in one of the following 13 states, you may or may not be affected by this change:

Illinois, Indiana, Louisiana, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, Nevada, Oregon, South Dakota, Utah, Wisconsin, Washington and Kentucky.

Blocked connections will receive an error message upon attempting to login to the poker client. Please read the Common Concerns below and if you feel your connection to the poker client is being blocked in error, please contact customer service immediately at support@dbpn.com so that we may assist you in logging into your account.

Common Concerns:

1. I am not in one of the states above will there be any difference in my connecting to the poker client?
No, your account will not be affected.
2. What is an IP address? An IP address is assigned to you by your Internet Service Provider (ISP). All users of the internet are assigned an IP address. This address can be used to roughly determine the geographic location of your ISP. The address returned from a lookup of your IP address is actually the address of your ISP rather than your physical address. This discrepancy may cause some players that are not from a blocked state to appear as though they are from a blocked state.
3. I am not attempting to connect from one of the 13 states above, but I am still having problems logging into the poker client. What should I do? We apologize for this inconvenience. State lookups based on your IP address are not always accurate. Please send an email to support@dbpn.com with your login name and a brief description of your problem.
4. I am not from one of the 13 states but I am traveling to one of them. Will I be able to connect? There is a chance that you will not be able to connect if you are travelling to one of the 13 states listed above. Please contact support@dbpn.com if you are traveling through one of the states and are having a problem logging into your account.
We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this causes you and urge you to contact our 24 hour support services if you have any further questions. Click to visit our support page



- The Technical Team at DoylesRoom.com

[BlindGuy]

Here's a fun doylesroom story...

Downloaded Doylesroom a month ago to check out their tourney schedule and fields. Wasn't impressed and instantly received phone calls/e-mails on how I could deposit. They had a 250k guarantee the following weekend that I went ahead and deposited for. Well, come tournament time (when it was obvious they would fall 100-150k short of the guarantee) they mysteriously claimed software issues (worked fine for 100% of everyone I know and there were several posts about it on P5's) and moved the tournament to the following weekened...in the meantime they continued to run satty's to it which is just absurdly shady. I demanded the $ back as I couldn't play the next Saturday and that took an act of congress to finally happen 4-5 days later.

So, short story long, sadly this is no big loss.

Originally Posted by Pocket 3s

Illinois, Indiana, Louisiana, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, Nevada, Oregon, South Dakota, Utah, Wisconsin, Washington and Kentucky.

So this means Doyle can't play @ Doylesroom.

[electropink]

what is they blocked.. the IP or address?

[Spry]

fairly certain they block by IP address.

[cersos]

Originally Posted by Pocket 3s

Dear Affiliate,

We have received notice from our poker software provider that as of Wednesday, October 29th, they will begin blocking connections from 13 U.S. states based on IP address.

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Sounds like Doyle needs to get a new poker software provider.

[ssiman]

Why were only those states blocked? Do those states have state legislation prohibiting online play?

Also, I agree, no great loss, but should that site continue on in the future and the Godfather (No, no John F.) goes Tango Uniform, what would they call it?

But, it shouldn'tbe long and the whole online gaming ban will be over with. With Barney Frank, Obama ( who I understand is quite the player), the PPA and Demato (sic) working together, we shouldn't be having to worry with the online gaming ban much longer.

Weird that the whole issue never affected my access to play on the sites I have accounts. Really been a nonissue for me personally but soon this stupid legislation should be stricken from the Code.

Just hope I have the money to play with next year. God knows, I have been spreading the wealth at the online tables for the past six months : - )!