NEW CASABLANCA ONLINE POKER GROUP TO WORK FROM MALTA

12 October 2007

Martinspoker merge completed


The merger between online poker firms 24hPoker.com and Martinspoker.com reported in InfoPowa bulletins several weeks back has been confirmed, with the combined companies now falling under the new Casablanca Gaming Group operating out of Malta.

Peter Anstrom, CEO of 24hPoker which has recently announced staff cuts, said that going forward Casablanca will operate his company's online poker site "...more efficiently than we could do ourselves, enabling us to focus on our supplier operations." Claus Nielson of Martinspoker will be the CEO of Casablanca Gaming.

Casablanca Gaming Group AB is the name of the newly formed company of 24hPoker AB and Martinspoker. Martinspoker is operated under 24hPay Ltd., Malta. They provide different gaming services in cooperation with software providers.

As majority shareholder of this joint venture, 24hPoker Holding will continue to design proprietary software systems for online gaming operations but in a larger capacity. In addition the Swedish firm will continue selling and developing online gaming platforms for operators that would like to conduct gaming operations under their own brand. 24hPoker is headquartered in Solna, Sweden with operations carried out through subsidiaries 24hPoker AB and B2B Poker AB.

Casablanca Gaming Group will be operating the brands 24hPoker, Martinspoker, Staffpoker and Danepoker as reported earlier in InfoPowa; these sites are some of the most popular Scandinavian gaming sites, the company boasts. Adding more brands is the grand design of Casablanca Gaming Group for the future. The customer database among other properties of 24hPoker will be transferred to Casablanca Gaming Group’s Maltese subsidiary.

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