PLAYBOY'S INTERNET GAMBLING SITE CLOSING
16 January 2009
Barely two years after launch, men's lifestyle
magazine calls it a day on Internet gambling interest
Taking many online gamblers by surprise this week was
the news that the Cryptologic-powered Playboy Gaming.com
operation is to shut down the operation. Curiously, the
company was not displaying any notification on its
websites when InfoPowa went to press, although service
representatives and a Cryptologic spokesman have
confirmed the reports.
Playboy officially entered the online casino sector with
the release of a new gaming website at Playboy
Gaming.com on April 3rd, 2007 along with Playboy
Casino.com and Playboy Poker.com. The sites were
licensed in Malta under a limited liability company
titled Oceania P-Club Ltd. and Oceania Clubhouse Ltd,
company registration numbers C42048 & C42050) trading as
PlayboyGaming and operating under licenses issued by the
Lotteries & Gaming Authority of Malta.
Customer service representatives advised that the
close-down date is to be January 29th 2009, and informed
enquirers: “In response to your email, I can confirm
that Playboy Gaming will no longer have a poker site and
will not be moving to another network.”
Poker News Daily, which broke the news, subsequently
confirmed the report with the Cryptologic poker network
to which Playboy Poker belongs.
The blow comes on the heels of the recent decision by
Peak Entertainment group to change software from
Cryptologic to Playtech for its online operations (see
previous InfoPowa report).
As at press time there had been no official statement
from either Playboy or Cryptologic, and the reasons for
the closure are not known, although Cryptologic's post-UIGEA
exit from the US market will undoubtedly have adversely
impacted Playboy's online gambling business.
Online Casino News Courtesy of
Infopowa
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