ONLINE CASINO BECOMES A SKIN

9 November 2007

Sayonara to Geisha Lounge...and some of its sisters


The outgoing manager for affiliate accounts at Wager Junction, Greg Gomes informed players of some interesting changes in the King Soloman's group of online casinos this weekend.

It appears that RTG-powered Geisha Lounge will be reduced to the status of a skin after many years of operations, with players being transferred, along with their loyalty status and rewards, to the King Soloman's database. Hamptons, Portofino, Gold Key, Magic Oasis and Grand Aces will also remain as 'skins', although the action and players will all go to the King Soloman database and backend in coming weeks.

Special arrangements have been made to ensure that marketing affiliates are not adversely affected by the changes, and these will be communicated this week.

Gomes revealed that the Playtech-powered Windows Casino and Windows Poker interests of the group have been doing well post-UIGEA, especially in the European market and this component will continue to operate on a different software platform.

"We want to reduce our brands and the workload that having multiple brands brings to the our Call Centre team," said Gomes. "This will enable us to focus on fewer brands but deliver a better service. As a group we have had to change direction after UIGEA and it makes sense to now promote software that Euro players enjoy and that is what we are going to be focusing on moving forward.

"We will still keep the RTG Casinos open [as skins] so that affiliates don’t loose out on any revenue that rightfully belongs to them."

Under the new arrangements the central Call Centre of the group will now only have to log into one backend instead of one for each of the group's (RTG) casinos. The Windows operations will operate on another backend, reducing the group backends to two.

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