In late June, the European country of Slovakia chose to ban Twitch entirely after a creator in the region broadcast themselves illegally playing poker. Following this, we saw creators asking for
On Oct. 18, the rules are changing. Twitch will no longer allow streams from gambling sites offering slots, roulette, or dice games, but there is an important caveat. Such streams won't be allowed
Twitch said it plans to ban the streaming of sites such as Duelbits.com, Rollbit.com, Stake.com and Roobet.com, and may identify more sites going forward. The policy change won’t affect sports betting, fantasy sports and poker, Twitch said. Streamers such as Pokimane, who gathered more than 312,000 likes expressing support of a ban onTwitch, the dominant streaming platform, As a blanket prohibition, it does not discern between licensed and unlicensed gambling sites and does not include poker, another commonly streamed gameTwitch, launched in 2011, is known primarily as a video game streaming platform, but it allied itself early on with the poker community. At the inaugural American Poker Awards, Twitch was awarded the 2014 “Poker Innovation or Initiative of the Year” award for opening up its site to poker streaming. Watch and stream poker for chance to win When you stream an online poker session on Twitch, you utilize a third-party “encoder” to send the data (including your hole cards) from your screen to an outside server. This server is not secured by your online poker provider, but rather by Twitch. Furthermore, you must place your trust in the employees, managers, hosting providers, and Event #27: $5,000 Main Event Online Championship. The streaming schedule for the World Series of Poker (WSOP) Online on the PokerNews Twitch channel has been released, with eleven events due to .