Exclusive: 888 Eyes Online Poker Expansion into Three States in 2021
With Pennsylvania and Michigan launches imminent with its partner WSOP, West Virginia looks like the third state on the cards.
"WSOP.com, through its partnership with 888, is set to go live in Pennsylvania next week and in Michigan shortly thereafter.
The launches will mark the first time that US players will use the gaming company’s new Poker 8 software, which will power the WSOP PA and WSOP MI online poker rooms."
Sherman said 888 is “hoping that Pennsylvania and Michigan join the existing compact sometime in the near term. We’re looking to launch that five- or six-state interstate poker liquidity network that we all think will be a milestone in US gaming.”
“Between now and year’s end, we’re hoping to be in, I want to carefully say, three additional states,” he went on to say. “But being more ambitious than that, [we want] to get in as many states as possible, especially with Poker 8.”
With the imminent launch of the WSOP PA and WSOP MI poker rooms, it is safe to say that Michigan and Pennsylvania, coupled with Delaware, Nevada and New Jersey, would complete the “five-state compact” suggested by Sherman."
"A decision by Michigan, Pennsylvania or both states to join MSIGA would be a huge boost to the interstate 888/WSOP network, the only one of its kind operating in the US."
"Sherman said that once 888 moves its customers in Delaware, Nevada and New Jersey to the new Poker 8 software, “any state, whether it’s Connecticut or West Virginia, that already offers poker licenses…and will be looking to proactively promote [online poker], will have a ready-made liquidity pool [and a] regulatory framework.”
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