Ongame Deal To Affect Online Casino Poker?

Published: Sunday, December 25, 2005 Online-Casinos.com

ONGAME DEAL TO AFFECT UK ONLINE CASINO AND POKER GROUP CORAL EUROBET?

Will Brit online casino gambling group's online poker network membership be affected?

Just one of the possible consequences of Ongame's acquisition by Australian Bet And Win concerns the vast Ongame Poker Network... specifically the continued membership of UK online casino and gambling group Coral Eurobet.

Coral Eurobet only joined the Ongame network in November after Party Poker distanced itself from its "poker skins", leaving Coral out in the cold. As one of Bet and Win's main competitors in the European sports betting market, Coral Eurobet could be averse to sharing its online poker product with a major rival and the concomitant risk of losing customers to the Bet and Win/Ongame sports and poker platform.

Gambling industry observers are expecting Coral Eurobet to leave the Ongame network sooner rather than later. Speculation suggests Bet and Win's main priority will be its poker customers and the fact that it will own all the proprietary Ongame technology will be viewed as a threat to any network partner that also operates online sportsbooks and is in direct competition with it.