http://calvinayre.com/2011/07/26/bus...ave-us-market/

Today Bodog Brand announced that they will allow their current license agreement with Morris Mohawk Gaming to expire at the end of 2011, thus the Bodog Brand will leave the US online gaming market.

The news comes on the heels of Bodog UK being granted a gambling licence by the UK gambling commission.

Bodog Brand has released the following statement about their decision to let their brand licensing deal with Morris Mohawk Gaming expire at the end of the year.

“Following recent news that Bodog UK has been granted a gambling license by the UK Gambling Commission, we are pleased to announce further developments to the Bodog brand going forward.

As highlighted last week, Bodog UK’s CEO, Patrik Selin believes the trust and credibility that having a UK license brings to the brand will benefit customers and allow him to attract the best talent in the industry to work with him.

However, in order to ensure the brand’s expansion is not affected by negative perceptions, both in the UK and elsewhere in emerging markets such as Asia, where Bodog88 is already successful, a decision has been made to withdraw the Bodog brand from the US market at the end of 2011. As a result, the Morris Mohawk Gaming Group’s (MMGG) brand licensing agreement will be allowed to expire on 31 December, following which US residents will no longer be able to access bodog.eu or any other Bodog branded website. We understand that MMGG will launch under its own brand in 2012, licensed by the Kahnawake Gaming Commission.

wow...how about players in Canada? will they be affected?

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Bodog has the absolute best agro "just lost 5 large in the sportbooks" tilt fish. A very rare breed indeed.

Well ****. Ruined my day.

Sounds like UB owners will join forces with MMGG and be back in the game next year. Scott Tom never, never will leave us alone.

Rebrand and bailout are two different animals. The Bodog brand has made some serious headway in Asia and Europe and a rebrand in the states protects that should things go sour here.

I tried to sign up for Bodog years ago but they were US only... I assume its international now? (minus US of course)

Im Canehdian

Can't really say to much negative about them. I think their lines were a little one sided for a long time but of course nobody forced me to bet with them. Overall they handled any issues with me professionally.

GG

it is open for US and Canada current, by the end of this year, US is out, my question will be canadian players impacted too?

thanks for the update. can't wait till Phil H. rounds up the investors to get Beau Rivage's site up and running.

Feels like something shady to me. There aren't enough players now as it is, will the sites share player pools?

I don't like it, I'm withdrawing the meager funds I have on there.

Quite the opposite. They have a UK license and plan on opening up high street betting shops there. They are expanding.

I wasn't able to deposit on there anyway.

never thought bodog would leave, whats the point, they are going to be marked out as rogues by the USA forever anyway.

I think he means for US poker players if Bodog splits. If the ROW can still play poker Bodog but US players are forced to play on a different site will they combine the player pools or will the US facing poker room be for US only.

If its USA only then it will suck as there aren't poker players on Bodog as it is now.

Canadians were not allowed to play on Bodog up until a couple of years ago I believe.

I don't see why this would affect Canadian players.