A PIONEER ONLINE GAMBLING SITE WITH A NEW GOAL

15 June 2007

Wheretobet's new role is as a community and information site

Readers who were around in the pioneering days of online gambling in the 'nineties will remember the portal Wheretobet, which was at that time a leading destination for information in the nascent Internet gambling industry but subsequently fell into relative obscurity. This week the site resurfaced under the aegis of the Costa Rican sportsbet marketing company Blue Reef SA with a new look and a new mission - as a "user driven" community and information site.

Spokesman Simon Eaton explained that super-popular websites on the internet like myspace.com and youtube.com are member driven virtual communities, where the site's users gather to participate together based on common interests, such as social networking in the case of myspace.com, and video sharing in the case of youtube.com.

He claims that the new-look Wheretobet.com has brought that same successful model to the world of internet gaming.

"Wheretobet.com allows online gamblers, whether they be sports bettors, casino gamblers, poker players, bingo players, or even skill gaming enthusiasts, to do such things as leave public reviews of the gaming brands listed on the site, leave comments or warnings for other users, add gaming related articles, and even suggest additional brands or bonuses to be listed on the site for the benefit of the community as a whole," says Eaton.

"A forum for the site's users to interact further is on the way as well, which promises to be among the most popular places for online gamblers to discuss the latest gaming gossip."

Wheretobet.com's goal is to ensure that the players participating in the community are privy to the latest information direct from the gaming merchants themselves, who can also log on and provide the latest and most important information regarding their products, such as new sign up bonuses, betting promotions, and special offers.

By bringing the gaming operators together with the players, and the players together with each other, the Wheretobet.com community seeks to educate the operators about what the players want, as well as to educate the players about which sites have a history of satisfying their customers, and which sites are best avoided.

Costa Rican based Blue Reef SA owns a network of some 25 mainly marketing sites that includes the Phoenix Media Group, and the Online Betting Guide group servicing the Poker, Bingo and Sportsbetting communities.

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