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Gambling & Adwords?

by DonDavis
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As we all are aware, Google stopped accepting ads related to online gambling a few years ago. But I ran into this page today and these ads caught my attention.

Poker Hands - Ranked Strongest to Weakest - Poker Hand Rankings

If you hover over the links in the adwords you will notice a url containing googlesyndication.com?

Anybody know anything about this?
#adwords #gambling
  • Profile picture of the author dburk
    Hi Don,

    Pages about how to play card games are not a gambling sites. Now if the page mentioned money as wagers that would make it unqualified, but since it only talks about the game which can be played without wagers, it's OK.
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    • Profile picture of the author DonDavis
      Well it is not the site I am wondering about, but rather the gambling related adwords that are on the page. Google stopped accepting poker related ads quite some time ago but yet it appears to me that these are Google Adwords on that site, and a few of them are clearly advertising poker related products.
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      • Profile picture of the author Jays80
        Don,

        These are not adwords ads,
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        • Profile picture of the author dburk
          Hi Don,

          I don't believe Google has stopped accepting "poker" related ads, only "gambling" related ads. Poker can be played without gambling, therefore ads can be placed for websites that don't mention gambling, but only talk about how to play the game of poker.
          • Poker without gambling - Accepted
          • Poker with gambling - Not Accepted
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