Coup For Microgaming Poker Network

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iGAME MALTA LTD TO JOIN THE MICROGAMING POKER NETWORK


Database of over a million players in new member


The Microgaming Poker Network has scored a major coup, announcing Wednesday that iGame Malta Ltd is to join, bringing with it a player base of over a million members with skins like 24hPoker.com, Pokerihuone.com, Casinohuone.com, NoiQ.com and iGame.com.

The operator will be moving from an existing network - believed to be the IGT Poker network - to the Microgaming Poker Network towards the end of this year.

In addition to joining the MPN, iGame Malta will also be offering a range of QuickFire products, including over 350 casino games, among them Microgaming blockbuster slots and licensed products such as Thunderstruck II, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider and Hellboy.

Tommi Maijala, managing director for parent group iGame Holding Ltd, said Wednesday: “We are thrilled to be joining the Microgaming Poker Network and securing for our players access to the highest quality poker software, good liquidity and a secure long-term future. The experience of players is always our utmost priority, so joining the MPN is a very natural development for us.”

Lydia Melton, head of network games at Microgaming, adds: “We are also in advanced discussions with a number of other major operators looking to join the Microgaming Poker Network. The significant advances Microgaming has made to the way the poker network is managed via our Network Management Board, coupled with major software developments, has made the MPN the network of choice for top tier operators looking for a stable, long term strategic partner. We look forward to announcing more operators joining the network in the near future.”

 

[rainmaker]

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Thanks for this jetset

I have had a lot of contact with the affiliate manager for these brands lately and he is a great guy. I have become quite a fan of IGame.com who is offering a full NetEnt casino, so I am really looking forward to see a bunch of Quickfire games there as well. Should be great

 

[kavaman]

Thanks for the info, i hope it brings back some wanted traffic to microgaming, the tournaments have been getting smaller and smaller recently so i hope they can now raise the guaranteed pots back to the 100 thousand range. Im really amazed by igt:s decision to stop offering poker. Entraction was one of the largest poker softwares that igt bought from entraction only to stop offering poker . This must have cost a fortune.
Their decision did not only harm the poker community, but it will harm them , because some of their casinos will change the casino software too because of this poker pull off.

kavaman

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Thanks for this jetset

I have had a lot of contact with the affiliate manager for these brands lately and he is a great guy. I have become quite a fan of IGame.com who is offering a full NetEnt casino, so I am really looking forward to see a bunch of Quickfire games there as well. Should be great

 

[rainmaker]

Thanks for the info, i hope it brings back some wanted traffic to microgaming, the tournaments have been getting smaller and smaller recently so i hope they can now raise the guaranteed pots back to the 100 thousand range. Im really amazed by igt:s decision to stop offering poker. Entraction was one of the largest poker softwares that igt bought from entraction only to stop offering poker . This must have cost a fortune.
Their decision did not only harm the poker community, but it will harm them , because some of their casinos will change the casino software too because of this poker pull off.

kavaman

Calvinayre.com had an article last week where they referred to an interview with IGT's CEO Patti Hart. She talked a about why they have decided to shut down their poker operations:

International Game Technology has confirmed the inevitable shut down of what was once the Entraction network blaming changes in the regulatory climate in Europe. In a telephone interview with Bloomberg, CEO Patti Hart admitted that a shift “from dot.com to dot.country”, something we looked at last month, has meant “there’s less profitability and the product becomes less interesting”. The IGT Network, as it became known, has closed barely a year after it was bought by IGT for an overinflated price of $115million.

Hart went on to say that companies wanting to offer online poker in the U.S. will “have to look at their own economics. It’s much more challenged when it’s a single state”. Hart’s complaints about a move from dot.com to dot.country are surprising as two of the countries they pulled out of, France and Italy, had already either moved over or were in the process of doing so before IGT acquired Entraction. What effect the move will have on their grand plan for the US market is unclear and it looks like Double Down Casino will now take on even more importance.

 

[rainmaker]

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I got an e-mail saying that IGame.com has moved to Microgaming's poker network today

I am guessing that all of their brands will be moved within a short time.