Views on Pokerroom.com linking strategy?

[Webzcas]

Also not cached in google.

[Simmo!]

User-agent: *
Disallow: /account/
Disallow: /pokah/links/
Disallow: /pokah/links/index.php
Disallow: /main/page/games/mobile/intro
Disallow: /home/new_index.php
Disallow: /home/new_signup.php

If their links directory is /pokah/links then they are tricking webmasters. That page is PR5 but is disallowed for search engines. Maybe they have a strategy here.

A lot of their links are in the pokah/links area, but I think the robots is pretty irrelevant anyway as they link out thru a gateway script anyhow. So double trouble

[GaryWatson]

Just looking at an old post from Webzcas. Typical Pokerroom, I know a site that was benefiting from backlinks, using the pokah profiles but that all stopped when they updated their design last year The pokah mods still got a massive amount of signups to competing sites though. I guess they reaped what they sowed.