All Players (including players from the USA!) Welcome to the New Doyle's Room!

From an e-mail I recently received from Doyle's Room:

"Upgrade Your Software For The All New DoylesRoom Experience -

Doyle's Room has raised the stakes and joined a new poker network with more players, bigger monthly guarantees and multiple reward options. Now welcoming ALL U.S. Players, new and existing customers will have full access to their real money poker account, loyalty points (which will soon turn to gold chips) and an exclusive $5,000 Launch Party Freeroll this weekend! There has never been a more exciting time to join thousands of players at the safest and most respected online poker room.

Doyle's Room $5,000 Launch Party Freeroll
January 31st, 2009 - 5PM ET

To thank you for joining our all new poker network, here's $5,000 on us!
Registration begins Thursday, January 29th at 5pm EST.
From the tournament lobby go to:
Tournaments > Freeroll > $5,000 Launch Party FREEROLL

Gold Rewards
Gold Chips - Gold Cards - Refer A Friend

We've cracked into our golden vault offering you the best rewards on the planet. Reward yourself with our all new Gold Chips for a shot at $52,000 and Refer a Friend with golden offers that your poker playing friends simply can't refuse!

Irish Open 2009
$7,000 Irish Open Prize Package

With a little luck on our new poker network, you will be one of our $7,000 satellite winners to the biggest pot in Ireland with an over 3 Million Euro prize pool.

New Daily Guarantees
5 Million in Monthly Guarantees

Our all new Daily Guarantees offer 7 tournaments every day with a minimum prize pool of $10,000. You are guaranteed to find a big game at your favorite time to play!

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Click here to join Doyle's Room today and get your first bounty tourney FREE + a 100% 1st Deposit Bonus worth up to $550!

yes i just upgraded the new version, and just registered for a gold chip tourney tonite. looks pretty good though. same graphics as sportsbook if i'm correct

Well hello, I just got back from a trip to Ohio. Took my wife to visit relatives. Missed all the turny action over the weekend! Anyway I just got onto Doyles... had to uninstall old Doyles and download the new. I can't say that I like what I see though. It's Sportsbook poker with Doyles name on it. I had to change my Doyles nickname from datsme53 to datsme63... so that is what my name on Doyles will be from now on. I have datsme53 on Sportsbook.... which is a site I played some last winter on and didn't like very much. Doyles was one of my favorites, but now that is sort of shot. They are doing some weird stuff to be in that poker network for sure. Loyalty Points earned on Doyles will become Gold Chips(250 Loyalty Points to one Gold Chip), sounds like a royal or should I say Loyal *&%#@%$ng.. lol!
They did transfer my real money account, but didn't fully explain what was happening to the site before doing all this. I would guess that more than a few of their account holders aren't pleased at all with all the changes for sure. They were a bit rude on the chat to me.... cutting off the conversation before I was finished. I was asking too many questions they still don't have answers to.. so they closed the chat window..... Didn't exactly please me... and probably angered some if they have done the same to them.
They have alltogether... done away with their buddy list and chat for now too from what they said. This won't make a lot of people happy including me. I have over 30 people I have been conversing with in friendly chat for over a year now... and they have cut that off without warning at all. Since they never allowed exchanging email addresses or any web addresses either in their chat.. this will make many people upset for sure who used the chat for conversation and setting up games too.... and if you already had an account on Sportsbook, like I do, you had to change your Doyles nickname in order to log in.
While these changes they are making might make it better for some US players to play on Doyles... it will likely anger or at least frustrate many players too. I liked Doyles as it was. We already have a Sportsbook poker site... didn't think we needed more of the same. I like the $5,000 freeroll to kick off the deal but I'm not so sure, other than that, what is good about this switch to something old. What do you Donkhard members think of the changes?

For those who really liked the old Doyle's Room style Eurolinx seems to be remaining on the old network and playing identically to the system we all knew and loved rt down to the 1pm freeroll.

regards all

Guy

i like eurolinxs they even have 2 freerolls on wed. at 145 and 745 for eurolinxs members only so the field is under 300 never had good luck on doyles it wont be missed .

yes i just upgraded the new version, and just registered for a gold
chip tourney tonite. looks pretty good though. same graphics as
sportsbook if i'm correct