3-Bet: YouTube Targets Poker Content, partypoker Forces Alias Change & APT Announces Vietnam Stop

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  • Arpit Jain June 8, 2019
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The world’s largest video sharing platform YouTube recently began its crackdown on videos promoting online gambling. The site earlier this week removed hundreds of poker content videos uploaded by prominent poker YouTubers like Jaime Staples, Evan Jarvis, Derek Gomez, and Andrew Neeme. After days of confusion and back and forth with support, YouTube finally clarified its stand that videos containing links to gambling sites (including poker) were considered a violation of the site’s terms and conditions and hence removed. Most of the affected YouTubers are now working on getting the videos reinstated after removing the links.

In another significant development, online poker operator partypoker has come out with a bold move to level the playing field between recreational players and pros. partypoker announced that come June 17, its global client will undergo a significant software revamp. As part of the upgrade, all partypoker dot com users will have to change their screen names or ‘aliases.’ To appease the players who will be forced to come up with a new alias, the site has announced an exclusive, 24-hour giveaway called ‘$500K Race to Alias’.

The Asian Poker Tour (APT), meanwhile, has announced its third stop in Vietnam this year that will once again take place in Pro Poker Club from November 6 – 17.

 

YouTube Removes Poker Content, Clarifies Uploads Violate T&C

Popular video-sharing website YouTube recently removed hundreds of video uploads by different poker personalities. The sudden disappearance of so much video content created quite a stir in the poker fraternity. It all came to YouTube clarifying that the videos were removed as they violated the site’s terms and conditions that prohibit gaming links in any content.

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The incident came to the fore when popular poker streamer and YouTuber Jaime Staples in a tweet dated May 31 announced that several videos from his YouTube channel were suddenly missing overnight.

Over the next few days, Staples, much of his dismay, discovered that over 150 of his videos had gone missing, and to make matters worse, both his two YouTube channels – PokerStaples and Jaime Staples – were given a “strike” each by YouTube, meaning, Staples could not upload videos for a week.

Poker pro and coach Evan Jarvis was another in a similar dilemma. Jarvis too discovered that his YouTube channel had been given a “strike.” But things were worse at his end, and by the end of the day on June 1, he got a second “strike” from YouTube. Three strikes mean that the member is permanently banned from YouTube, so obviously Jarvis was concerned. “Am I gonna wake up and have a third, or a fourth?” asked Jarvis who had a series of YouTube videos lined up for release at the edge of the 50th annual World Series of Poker (WSOP).

Staples and Jarvis submitted appeals to YouTube and got the typical response that the removed videos were violating YouTube’s terms and conditions.

They were not the only ones in trouble. Poker YouTuber, Derek Gomez had five videos removed from his channel ‘Derek GMZ’. Gomez later tweeted, “They are getting pulled because of their connection to a gambling site. They snap declined my appeal.”

Poker pro Andrew Neeme had one video removed.

YouTube eventually clarified its stand in emailed responses to Staples and Jarvis. YouTube referenced its policy that says the platform does not permit ‘content intended to sell certain regulated goods and services’ and that its terms dictate that content creators should avoid selling or linking to ‘online gambling casinos’ in descriptions and comments.

While Staples’ videos promoted PokerStars, Jarvis’ removed videos featured hand history reviews of PokerStars online tournaments.

Staples shared the news on Twitter:

On June 4, Staples updated his Twitter followers that his videos would soon be reinstated and came out with the warning to all content creators to remove links to gambling sites in the video descriptions. “So my videos will be, and their team is working on speaking with the YouTube poker community affected so that they have time to fix the offending content. It doesn’t appear as if YouTube has an issue with poker content at this point, but that could always change in the future. It is recommended that all content creators avoid putting links to gaming sites in their descriptions.”

Jarvis also had good news to share.

It appears that the crackdown is not on poker content but videos that explicitly promote contests and promotions at online poker sites, or those that have links to gambling sites in their description.

 

partypoker Incentivizes Forced Screenname Change, Announces $500K Alias Race Rewards

A software client upgrade on online poker giant partypoker’s global client will force all its existing users to change their screen name. While the move aims to confront the problems caused by the proliferation of Heads-up Displays (HUD) and other forms of third-party software, the site has announced a time-limited $500K ‘Race to Alias’ as an incentive to players to change their alias’s earlier.

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Announcing this on May 30, the site clarified that recreational and casual players have increasingly been bearing the brunt of the advantage that such software gives to full-time and professional online players. The right strategy to combat this is a forced change of user screen names or aliases. partypoker’s updated client goes live on June 17 after which the promotion will run for 24 hours. The alias change is mandatory for all partypoker users and players will not be able to revert back to their original screen names later. All old, un-used screen names will be unavailable to players for six months.

The forced alias change is also going to take place on the partypoker global client and not on any of the several fire-walled jurisdictions in which the site operates.

 

$500K Race to Alias – What’s It About?

All partypoker dotcom players excluding the residents of the Czech Republic and Sweden can participate in the special giveaway that will run for 24 hours from 9 AM BST on June 17.

The promotion is offering over $80,000 to players via Login Click Cards, $370,000 in Hourly Click Card drops, and $50,000 via five $10K freerolls.

 

APT Announces 3rd Vietnam Stop of 2019

Following the tremendous response of the inaugural APT Kickoff Vietnam stop in January this year, the Asian Poker Tour has announced its return to the Pro Poker Club in Ho Chi Minh city for its third stop in Vietnam this year. The series is slated to run from November 6 – 17.

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The complete schedule of the series is yet to be announced but the two marquee events that have become a permanent fixture at prominent APT stops – the Main Event with a buy-in of VND 22,000,000 and a Championships Event with a buy-in of VND 38,500,000 – are confirmed for the November series.

The first ever APT Kickoff Vietnam stop was a grand success with almost 3,800 entries and over VND 40 Billion awarded in hard cash. The second stop of the APT Vietnam Ho Chi Minh is scheduled to begin next month from July 3 – 14.

The APT was founded over a decade back and has hosted over 80 major events in the last 11 years. Currently, its playing host to the APT Korea Seoul 2019 at the Grand Walkerhill Paradise Casino which will conclude on June 9.

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