Casino Gambling blog » Online poker http://www.eonz.org Mon, 06 Feb 2012 10:47:52 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Casino group biggie clinches deal http://www.eonz.org/blog/casino-group-biggie-clinches-deal/ http://www.eonz.org/blog/casino-group-biggie-clinches-deal/#comments Thu, 29 Apr 2010 11:11:36 +0000 admin http://www.eonz.org/?p=20 (Dragonfish DealJanuary 31, 2010)The online casino group 888 Holdings Plc has an independent B2B division that goes by the name of Dragonfish. This group is a supplier of online casino software to the various holdings, subsidiaries and affiliates. 888 Holdings was pleased to announce that Dragonfish had signed a deal with Lex Online Entertainment Limited, which is a subsidiary of Centric Multimedia SA. They are going to be providing them with online casino and poker software. The deal has them supplying their two brands with all of their online casino and poker software, as well as their fraud and risk management, customer support, e-payment processing, and back office technology. They will be launching in several different languages as well, which will really open them up to the online casino market. Linden Lab’s Second Life (SL) is a virtual world launched on June 23, 2003 where users, called Residents, can explore, socialize, interact and create and trade virtual property and services with each other through avatars. Second Life has become a phenomenon worldwide, generating around $35 million of business every month, and the deal struck will see Dragonfish provide electronic payments, fraud and customer support management services to the company which predicts $0.5billion of business this year alone.

They are currently focusing on the South and Eastern European market, as they know that right now they are one of the hot spots for online casino gambling. There are so many areas out there that are saturated within the online casino industry that they wanted to branch out to other territories that are ready to go. Centric Multimedia distributes multimedia and software and already has many investments in the online casino gambling industry. This online casino deal will expand their presence in the market, and give them a much stronger standing. Not only that but they can use their existing channels to market their new online casino sites through a new campaign. The deal, which ties revenue streams from Cashcade brands including Foxy, Think and Cheeky into the Dragonfish platform until May 2014, follows the widespread mooting of a possible move off the network by 888 rival Party Gaming following PartyGaming’s buy of Cashcade in July 2009.

Dragonfish managing director Gabi Campos said PartyGaming’s decision to keep Cashcade on Dragonfish (which also avoids the disruptive effect of moving the bingo operator’s players to another platform) reflected the strength of the Dragonfish bingo software and back-end.Cashcade is the largest bingo operator in the UK, and owns standalone networks Foxy Bingo, Cheeky Bingo, Think Bingo, Little Big Bingo, Bingo Scotland and Foxy Zero, which are all powered by Dragonfish. PartyGaming also recently relaunched its ITV Bingo website via Cashcade. Dragonfish has been instrumental in propping up 888 Holding’s recent quarterly results, and managed to post a 15% year on year increase in revenue in Q3 when the company’s overall revenue saw a decline of 10%. This was mostly due to a series of recent deals struck by Dragonfish, with big businesses, including Harrah’s Interactive Entertainment and South Africa’s Tsongo Sun Gaming group, as well as being involved in launching poker and gaming in the Balkans. Dragonfish-owner 888 tied Wink and Posh Bingo into the Dragonfish network by acquiring the rooms from owners Daub for £60m in December 2009.

]]> http://www.eonz.org/blog/casino-group-biggie-clinches-deal/feed/ 0 RUSH POKER-FINALLY HERE http://www.eonz.org/blog/rush-poker-finally-here/ http://www.eonz.org/blog/rush-poker-finally-here/#comments Mon, 08 Feb 2010 11:00:36 +0000 admin http://www.eonz.org/?p=12 A few months ago, the craze that got the whole online poker world buzzing when it first launched in ring games made a successful transition over to the tournament side. It was launched on 19th April 2010. The much hyped Rush Poker tournaments have arrived. On the very 1st day it attracted 892 players, not least of them being Team Full Tilt’s own Andy Bloch. The buy-in was only $1 and the format of the game was Rush Poker.
It is available only and exclusively at Poker. Players can experience the world’s fastest poker tournament. The site explains the whole new format and rules. It is already getting widespread support. Grinders who had grown accustomed to massive multi-tabling and even amateurs who hated waiting around for playable hands were mystified and amazed at the ability to “quick fold” and almost instantaneously move to a new table with a new batch of players to compete in the next hand. The concept is that the players join a large player pool in a ring game and face a different table of players every hand they play. As soon as they fold their hand, they’ll be moved to another table for their next hand. Just like its cash games, players can use the “quick fold” option throughout tournament play. However, in Rush tournament poker, once a final table is reached, the tournament is played out normally, with no additional seat changes. There is also no hand-for-hand play in tournament Rush poker and once less than 30 players remain, the tourney moves to short-handed play to maintain a swift speed. The blind levels are very short, the structure is similar to that of a turbo or super-turbo but with the quick fold feature an individual will see as many hands as in a regular speed tournament. This is a great change for MTTs as players can now compete in large tournaments in a much shorter time without having to cope with the time pressure of a turbo.
Currently, Full Tilt is running two sit-and-gos with the new format. Full Tilt is the world’s second largest online poker site. But it’s not just hold’em that is the benefactor of Rush tournaments. Full Tilt is also using the new craze to energize its low-stakes pot-limit Omaha tournaments. Although the site is introducing these tournaments slowly, Full Tilt has already tournaments from $20 ($2) double-stacked six-handed Rush tournaments (both turbo and regular speed) to $2 ($.20) eight-handed PLO Rush tourneys. Full Tilt’s no-limit hold’em Rush tourneys have already attracted big fields. A $10 (+$1) event on April 20th 2010 witnessed a field of 1,086 players, including a couple Red pros in Roy Winston and Monte Kouz. The Poker Skool at Pokerrakeback also have been working throughout the weekend to trial the new Rush Poker. The upcoming 16th Full Tilt Online Poker Series (FTOPS XVI) is said to be including three Rush Poker Tournaments: 1 Turbo, 1 Rebuy, and 1 Pot Limit Omaha Knockout. Rush poker is said to be the crack-cocaine of poker cash games!

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