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Another online poker room has bitten the dust!
The latest casualty of the online poker room wars is a little-known room called Poker Ducks (www.pokerducks.com), which has shockingly pulled the plug on itself without any explanation or prior notice.
A notice currently posted on the Poker Ducks website simply states:
"Poker Ducks is closed."
No explanation or other information about the closing is posted on the site, including info on when and how Poker Ducks customers can collect the monies in their wagering accounts.
Little is known about Poker Ducks, which was not a major player in the Internet poker industry.
Poker Ducks had one paid flack, Swedish poker pro Christer Johansson, who promoted the website and also posted on-site answers to e-mailed-in questions about poker.
Johansson won the 2009 Irish Open poker tournament.
According to the Poker Ducks website, "Poker Ducks' goal is to offer a site that is fun and interesting for our players...Poker Ducks' number one priority is that you as a player shall be satisfied...
"Poker Ducks is a partner of Tain Poker, who has a license from Kahnawake Gaming Commission (KGC). All games is played within iPoker network."
Savvy gamblers know, of course, that a license from the KGC means nothing and is as worthless as Confederate money.
The KGC, a small panel of Canadian Mohawk Indians, is best known for regulating tribe-owned online gambling sites that are run from the tribe's reservation outside Montreal.
In addition, Poker Ducks claimed to be located in Malta, a tiny Mediterranean island nation that licenses numerous online gambling sites.
However, Malta's Lotteries and Gaming Authority, which does that licensing, issued a press releasee in 2006 that read, in part: "The Lotteries and Gaming Authority would like to bring to your attention that a foreign remote gaming company by the name of Poker Ducks is claiming that it is being located in Malta and therefore winnings for European Union citizens are tax-free.
"The Authority would like to inform the public at large that the above statement is not true. Pokerducks.com has no connection whatsoever with the Maltese jurisdiction."
By Tom Somach
Gambling911.com
