Harrah's signs up with 888, but...

[JonOfFinsbury]

Hi guys,

As you might have seen, 888 has signed a business-to-business deal with Harrah’s Interactive Entertainment, the new online gambling arm of US casino giant Harrah’s;and 888 chief executive Gigi Levy told eGaming Review that the deal “will have a huge positive impact” on the company’s ability to operate in the US should online gaming be legalised there.

Am I the only one to sense a few discrepancies here?! 888 has been the most prominent of the operators predicting that the US will be protectionist and remain closed to non-American operators even if it does legalise online gambling . Any thoughts?

[bb1web]

my thoughts are that it sucks bigtime.

888 has never been truly aff-friendly (not by my standards anyway) ... are known to have at best ... dragged their feet about not supporting scrapers / black hat ...

and are extremely aggressive about branding which as some of the old timers might remember they used to be every possible place and as such they were so saturated that it became not profitable to promote them.

Harrahs isn't afraid to advertise either.

I would prefer another name besides 888 was teaming with Harrahss but we'll play the hand dealt won't we?

[Doolally]

And a week ago, I'd have put money on it being PartyGaming!