How was the WSOP (World Series of Poker)

When Seth Polanski asked about Station Casinos online poker in Nevada, he inevitably mentions patience.

This slogan was quoted last month, when Station Casinos provided Ultimate Poker Web site, was the first completely legitimate and profitable online gambling application running in the United States.

Be the first-that is not the point, said Polanski representative Caesars Interactive.
"Just a little bit of patience," he said.

Caesars is now preparing to launch a fully functional site WSOP in domain zone com during 44-the 5th annual world series of Poker, to possibly become the second site in Nevada that can offer poker tables with real money. And if all goes as planned, the official website of the WSOP will be launched on 6 July. Players may compete in a 10-day online poker tournament.

Playing the Office of Nevada endorsed cooperation between Caesars Entertainment Corp. and 888 Holdings PLC, a Gibraltar company that manages online casino in the United Kingdom.

This was the first collaboration of its kind in the history of the games online in Nevada, and it is this cooperation has paved the way for the launch of Web sites using a famous brand of the WSOP. But the seed of the collaboration were sown much earlier.

The story began a few years ago, "said Isai Fibiger, CEO of 888 Holdings PLC.

At the end of 2009, when Caesars was known as Harrah’s, the great giant Casino wanted to enter on the online gaming market in the United Kingdom with their brand. Caesars found his way to the market in England, when signed multi-million dollar agreement with Dragonish, which was 888 Holdings PLC.

888 Holdings attracted the attention of the Caesars in 2006, when the company withdrew from the market in the United States, which at the time was $ 15 million. Income.

As we have already mentioned, in the United States a specific gaming market, and it was once again confirmed. The exodus followed the withdrawal of the Bill, approved by President George W. Bush, who imposed special restrictions on online gambling in the United States. It was not long before the United States Congress banned the credit card companies issue the players earned money on Web sites.

888 Holdings quickly came out of the United States, leaving a huge chunk of the North American market. But other offshore companies remained under the supervision of one of the most controversial laws of the United States in 2011.

It was then charged the operators of some of the world's largest online gaming websites in the crisis, known as "Black Friday." The Ministry of Justice closed domains of the largest offshore operators that work with American clients (more on this in more detail we wrote in this article). Crisis forced the players back to the brick-and-mortar and to risk breaking the law.

And yet the Caesars made Herculean efforts to get permission to engage in online gaming business in Nevada, but at the same time has maintained its relationship with 888 Holdings. Fix Polanski off one of the most lucrative markets in the world, has helped to strengthen relations with 888 Holdings, which hired for the development of their projects more than 1.600 programmers in different parts of the world.

"Partner search led to two ways: good software and convenience," said Polanski. "At the end of the day, 888 was the best solution for us is acceptable. America is full of people with such experience we need, and we were very impressed with their level of professionalism. "

At least 500 programmers from 888 Holdings spent most of his time on the development of software for Caesars in recent years, developing the technology of the WSOP.

The friendship was not without controversy and disagreement. Palansky cited the time difference between Las Vegas and London and pointed out the potential problem and typical technological shortcomings, which follow from the weak level of software development. But despite all this, the World Series of Poker is alive and evolving.