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SpadeClub.com Ceases Operations

16 September 2010, By: compncards
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Word was released earlier Thursday that SpadeClub.com would cease operations and players were asked to move over to the ZEN Entertainment Network. As you may remember, SpadeClub was a subscription based poker room that CardPlayer setup back in 2008 that took action from the U.S. and was supposedly legal because it ran as a lottery.



In all honesty, I didn't give this site a year when it first came out. Had it not been run by CardPlayer, I doubt it would have. They had problems with conversions from free to pay and there have always been complaints tied to slow / no payouts and the high luck factor of many of the tournaments.

Basically, if I am going to shell out the money for a subscription each month, why not put that money on a site such as Full Tilt or Pokerstars and try and make some real money. I am not going to be among those that will miss the site. I've never been big on subscription based gaming sites, so the passing of SpadeClub is barely a blip on the radar to me.

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  • compncards 15/10/2010 5:57am (10 years ago)

    Have you contacted their support department to see if you have any remedy. I do think that players should have been offered refunds if they did not want to move. We had a similar situation happen the first time Doyle's Room back out of the US. They sent our bankrolls to Full Tilt, but we did have the option to cash out if we wanted to. I hope you find some type of resolution to your problem.

  • compncards 27/09/2010 12:00am (10 years ago)

    Jen,

    I'm happy to have you share it. Every site will have its following and people absolutely love it. I knew several players that were all aboard the site from day one and tried to sell me on it all the time. I just never bought into it.

  • JEN 25/09/2010 5:29pm (10 years ago)

    well.........i liked spadeclub. i only started to play about 4 weeks before it closed and had already won a free membership (something none of the other sites offer). the people were friendly and the site managable. yes, we all got rivered when they moved us to cardplayer...(the antique of poker sites), on that i agree. i'll miss spadeclub......don't really care about your opinion, just wanted to give mine.