Ongame Network annonces partnership with Coral Eurobet

Ongame, the world’s third-largest online poker company, today announces that Coral Eurobet’s two poker websites – Coralpoker.com and Eurobetpoker.com – are joining its poker network. The sites will now run Ongame’s software and share their customer base with the more than dozen other affiliate members on Ongame Network. Ongame has won Coral Eurobet’s business from PartyGaming.

By moving to Ongame Network, Coral Eurobet will be able to offer its customers bigger and better tournaments, improved poker software functionality and greater player liquidity. In particular, players will enjoy:
* More players to challenge at all levels of play
* Higher table limits (up to $1,000)
* $600 first deposit bonus
* Daily freeroll
* More varieties of poker  - Texas Hold’em, Omaha, 5-card draw, 7-card stud
* Availability of download and non-download games
* Mac and Linux-compatible games

Coral Eurobet operates two online poker brands: Coralpoker.com, which focuses on the UK market, and Eurobetpoker.com, which operates in Europe and the rest of the world. These sites have a highly active customer base of several hundred thousand registered members and they will join the 6m already registered on the Ongame Network.

Mats Johnson, Director of Coral Eurobet, said: “We chose to move to Ongame because we feel their network benefits both our customers and Coral Eurobet as a company. The move to Ongame powerfully boosts our future growth prospects, and provides our customers with a much better all-round playing experience.” Patrik Selin, CEO of Ongame, said: “Coral Eurobet’s decision to join Ongame Network confirms our position as the most attractive network for partner members and their customers. Our technology is significantly more advanced and more userfriendly than our competitors’, and the size of our customer base means we can offer the best tournaments. We look forward to a long working relationship with Coral Eurobet.”

About Ongame:
Founded in Sweden, Ongame is a leading online poker focused entertainment company. Ongame operates its own brands, including PokerRoom.com, the world’s number three ranked poker website, and eCardroom.cn, the first Chinese language poker website, and runs a poker network, providing poker technology for third parties. The first company to make real money multiplayer poker available on mobile phones, Ongame is widely acknowledged as having the most advanced technology in the industry. In 2004, Ongame was named as Sweden’s “IT Company of the Year”.

For more information on Ongame please visit www.ongame.com

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About Coral Eurobet:
Coral Eurobet, based in the UK and in Gibraltar, is one of the world’s leading gaming and fixed-odds bookmaking businesses, providing up-to-the minute sports betting and gaming products throughout the world including its online Poker, online Arcade games and online Casinos. In addition to its online business, it operates over 1260 licensed betting offices in the UK, a significant telephone betting business and two leading UK greyhound stadia. Gala, the gaming group, acquired Coral Eurobet Ltd in October 2005. The deal creates Europe’s pre-eminent integrated betting and gaming company with strong market positions in licensed betting offices, bingo and casinos, and a high quality multimedia offer. The enlarged company has an enterprise value of more than €4.4bn. It trades from 1,450 outlets, employs a total workforce of 17,000 and has 8 million registered customers and more than 2.2 million active customers.

The group is the UK’s third-largest bookmaker with 1,267 licensed betting offices, the UK’s largest bingo operator with 167 clubs and a leading operator of casinos with 30 outlets. Coral Eurobet’s established online business, matched with Gala’s web based products, will also make Gala a significant online gaming operator with strong prospects for further growth.