Rob Yong, the owner of the DTD casino, co-founder of the Luxon payment system, and the most active on social media partypoker executive - has informed the poker world about his new venture. This time, he took the initiative to fund an international organization to lobby for the interests of the online poker industry in individual countries.
After a vacation in Cyprus and high roller cash games during SHRB Europe, Rob Yong decided to post a tweet not only about his DTD casinos and partypoker but also regarding more global problems.
To begin with, he conducted a survey among his subscribers on whether they consider it a good idea to create a poker organization that will deal with the following:
As a result, 64.8% out of 2,381 respondents praised his initiative. So yesterday Rob made a new post on this matter:
In a short video following the tweet, Yong added that once the organization has at least 100K members, it would be reasonable to hold elections to appoint its executives. Then he invited poker players, representatives of gambling operators, journalists, and poker affiliates to cooperate.
There is no doubt that establishing a Global Poker Lobby is a vital initiative for online poker. But like any new beginning, it has a lot of obstacles on its way. Therefore, it is still difficult to say whether such an organization will be created and how its work can really affect the unity of the poker industry in the face of external challenges, primarily government regulation.
The second item on the agenda that Rob Yong announced looks the most problematic.
Every operator can promote online poker on their own; also it is possible to get the support of individual politicians and to assign some lawyers to deal with regulators, but working out a unified view of the development of online poker (at least among representatives of the top poker sites) - this would require enormous resources and time.
After all, we already have examples of even less ambitious plans that actually did not go beyond declarations:
Therefore, we are cautiously optimistic regarding the prospects of the Global Poker Lobby and would inform you of any developments in this field.
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