Poker Rooms Changing Hands

January 30, 2009

The popular poker sites Doyle’s Room and Playboy Poker have both announced a change in their networks. Doyle’s Room is going to be moving to Cake Poker and Playboy will be moving to Intercasino.

Doyle’s Room is moving because of the recent decision by Microgaming not to allow US players, and they wanted to still be able to offer them poker. Both players and management at the poker room say that they have started the switch and that it was going remarkably well. Microgaming will still hold the old versions of the poker room but they will be gone by the end of January.

Players are to uninstall the old poker software and install the new Cake Poker version. The poker site is hoping that this will be the last move for them as they have seen their share of hosting sites. They were originally with Tribeca, then they moved to Playtech, then Microgaming, and now Cake Poker.

Playboy Poker is making the move as well, and despite earlier reports that the poker site was shutting down altogether, this is not the case. They are moving the poker site to another site, but it seems that it is not really going all that well. Poker players say that they have problems logging on, and that they are having problems loading in their loyalty points.

The poker site is hard at work trying to figure out how to make it work and to fix the problems that they have had so far, and once it is done they expect it to be even better than before.