UltimatePoker.com is off to a great start in Nevada online poker
Even though you technically have to be in Nevada to play America's first-ever legal online poker, that's not stopping people from every state in the U.S., as well as 20 other countries abroad, from signing up to be a part of history. Yes, UltimatePoker.com, owned by Stations Casinos and the first legal regulated Internet poker site in the United States, looks like it could be a hit. Who would have thought.
Set off
The new legal page has just been launched and is quickly becoming popular. Thousands of players signed up within the first 72 hours (and many more would have signed up if there hadn't been a weird bug on Verizon phones that prevented users from authenticating properly, which didn't make them too happy either). On the first day, it had already dealt its 100,000th hand, and on the first night, there were 50 full cash games going on.
“We were, I would say, the largest poker room in the state at the time,” Ultimate Gaming CEO Tobin Prior said the next day, a far-reaching statement that could only have been made at the World Series of Poker in Rio de Janeiro There are still a few weeks to go until the event starts, and at this point it's hard to beat the cash game action at the Venetian, Caesars, or any of the many other crazy poker casinos a month before the WSOP Main Event.
The point is, it was successful.
Government revenue will benefit
While Ultimate Poker chairman Tom Breitling won't reveal how much money they raised in their first days of operation, in the newly regulated, overseen world of American-style online poker, the Nevada Gaming Control Board would certainly be interested in the information. It's not just casual interest, either; Silver State gets a 6.75% commission, which is the amount the casino takes from each cash pool, plus a percentage of the tournament fees collected.
GLOBAL APPEAL
Since any player can play anywhere on the site once they reach the Nevada border (you've got a GPS chip implanted in your head now, right?), there are (so far) thousands of players arriving from all over. Sign up and look forward to their arrival. . Smart planning to get the site up and running a few weeks before the WSOP craze hits; a bit like a movie coming out at Christmas where mom and dad are stuck at home taking care of the kids and just want to take them somewhere where they can lock them away for a few hours .
Equally ingenious are the physical and online connections between Nevada's primarily locals-oriented Stations Casino and the new UltimatePoker site. Users can make deposits and withdrawals online or in any cage at Stations Casino, which is often referred to as a great cross-brand strategy. Shh.
Additionally, Stations plans to combine its existing Players Club rewards program with that of its online site, creating a Pavlovian dog Insta-drooling factor never seen before in poker. All in all, it was a very successful start.
“I think it’s a testament to Las Vegas,” Breitling said. "People are planning their trips and saying this is going to be part of the trip."
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