Popular online poker room Poker.com has generously stepped in to save the World Series of Poker for 10 players who have been denied the WSOP entries they had rightfully won.

Apparently another poker site named ChecknRaisePoker had arranged qualifiers giving away 10 WSOP packages to their players but have now informed the winners that they will not honor that and instead offered them a series of small payments.

Poker.com's director of gaming Paul Cherry commented on the decision as follows: ”Our own players are like family to us and we'd hate to see these ChecknRaise players miss out due to no fault of their own".

He also added that a similar situation could never happen on their site as they keep all guaranteed tournament prizes and player funds in escrow, separate from operational funds.

- 2006-06-22