Leading sportsbooks are moving into the online poker room sector
as the game continues to boom across both land and online establishments.
This week there was news of poker rooms starting in subsidiaries of
the giant UK firm Sportingbet.com such as SportingbetUSA.com/poker
and Playersonly.com/poker. The company uses World Gaming software
and it is believed that this provider's newest product is poker and
that this is probably being used to power up the new rooms. Unfortunately
none of the operations concerned responded to emails asking this important
question.
Leading poker portal Poker Pulse now showcases over 210 different
online poker rooms in operation, yet the boom in this sector shows
no sign of slowing down.
Software provider MicroPower has also revealed that it has a number
of sportsbook clients moving into this sector including WSEX , ThePokerClub,
TrueMoneyGames, Easybets and highly respected Bodog. The latter is
particularly interesting because it uses RTG for its casino software
but has not gone for RTG's poker partner Las Vegas From Home in favour
of the MicroPower product.
It is understood that at least two other major books are in the market
for poker software, and that there is serious competition for market
leader PartyPoker on the way, too. MicroPower are getting some attention
at present with an increasing number of clients and some positive coverage
in this month's eGaming Review.
Tribeca is apparently making headway with its Apex Poker Network which
now features 57 skins, and the Swedish Ongame powered PokerRoom.com
is apparently working well, too.