Yahoo! Poker's Old Freeplay Client Gets a Flurry of New Media Coverage
Key Takeaways
  • Yahoo! Poker has had some form of free online poker for 15 years in its highly popular Yahoo! Games portal on its website.
  • In March 2014, Yahoo! closed the majority of the games, but some of its most popular games were kept, including poker.
  • None of the three have proved particularly popular with players, each garnering 3 out of 5 star aggregate reviews.

An article published on Forbes.com over the weekend speculating that Yahoo! was “betting on legalization” of online gambling with the purported launch of a “Texas Hold’em poker portal” has lead to a spate of reports in online gaming media about the company’s real money gaming intentions.