It’s a screw-up of pretty epic proportions and has left popular poker streamer Jaime Staples and his family crew almost lost for words as they set up their latest home-from-home in Bucharest, Romania - only to find out that they simply can’t play poker in the country, despite PokerStars telling them it would be fine.
Staples, a Team PokerStars online pro, has been traveling Europe with his brothers Matty and Chris and grinding out his games and streams from a variety of locations; Vienna in Austria was followed by a month in Split, Croatia – but when they arrived in Romania after a 21-hour journey and set up their mobile streamhouse, disaster struck.
Of course, when news spread of their predicament on social media, there were plenty of offers to help. When a friend suggested they try ACR or 888 poker-rooms Jaime replied:
“Nah I am a Team Online member with PokerStars. I only play there.”
Other destinations were soon proposed for the Staples crew; Prague, Budapest, the Baltic states – all were offered up as solutions, but it seems that many people are just as confused by the whole .eu tag as PokerStars are themselves. Basically not all Schengen countries use the .eu client, and not all non-Schengen countries use the .com version.
Hopefully Pokerstars sort out their favorite team of streamers/vloggers with some decent advice and finance, and get them settled somewhere nice where they can get back to doing what they do best!