iPoker is Cleaning House

January 12, 2009

Playtech’s iPoker announced over the weekend that they would be removing NoIQ Poker and Carlos Poker from their network. This came as a surprise to many as they were not aware that there were any problems between the poker affiliates, and therefore the removal of both from their poker site as of January 24th seemed hasty.

The poker company released a statement that basically said that they had entered into discussions with Tain, a company they had merged with a year ago last August. They said that as a result of that meeting they have decided to remove the poker sites from their site. Tain is still considered a separate company, but has ties to the iPoker network.

NoIQPoker released a statement of their own saying that they were excited about the end of the partnership and that they have not seen eye to eye on many an occasion. They said that “it has been hard to understand each other” but that they were looking forward to the future without them. They said that they would be making an announcement as to which poker network they would be moving to.

The poker company said that this was the best move for them and that they had received four other offers to move to other sites and was considering each one carefully. They say that whichever site they go with the poker company will be able to have “faster game play [and] looser cash games.” They said that not all players like the tight games that they have been subjected to on the iPoker network.