Caesars Launching Nevada Online Poker This Summer


Thursday May 23,2013 : CAESARS  ONLINE POKER IN NEVADA SOON (Update)
 
Summer plans for a Nevada launch
 
Major US land gambling group Caesars Entertainment plans to launch its Nevada intrastate USA online poker offering during the northern hemisphere summer.
 
A company spokesman told the agency that Caesars will promote the nascent service to thousands of poker players at its World Series of Poker (WSOP) tournament in Las Vegas starting May 29.
 
Caesars is among several gaming companies preparing to go live with online sites in the United States which could eventually generate billions of dollars in revenue for the casino industry and local governments, Reuters notes.
 
"We anticipate our arrival to be sometime this summer," Seth Palansky, a spokesman for Caesars Interactive, told Reuters, adding the online service will operate under the World Series of Poker (WSOP) brand name.
 
Caesar's Nevada poker website will operate using technology provided by the highly experienced European online gambling group 888 Holdings plc. The two companies already operate World Series of Poker websites in the United Kingdom, France and Italy.
 
Like the first online poker site to launch under the new Nevada online gambling laws, Ultimate Poker.com, Caesars' site will only allow betting by players located within Nevada's state borders.
 
Tobin Prior, chief executive of Ultimate Poker.com's parent company Ultimate Gaming, told Reuters that the Ultimate Poker.com web site in Nevada has dealt over 1.5 million poker hands since launching on April 30, and is prepared for a more crowded Nevada online market.
 
"It's going to become very competitive in a short space of time. There will be more offerings in the market place," he told Reuters, adding that he does not expect players to drop his service for Caesars' or others.
 
"History from what we understand is that people play at more than one site and have more than one account," he said.