PokerStars goes live with NetEnt’s online casino games

[TheProphet]

"Earlier this year NetEnt started to deliver online casino games and services to Full Tilt. As a step further in the partnership with Rational Group, NetEnt today announces that a selection of its renowned game portfolio is now also live and available in PokerStars’ new casino offering."  Full article here

[ValDes]

Now we are talking! That's definitely a news worth reading since it could have a significant impact over the entire industry...

[Awena]

Great news!

[Luciana]

So it means that soon PokerStars can be listed here with it's online casino section?

[ValDes]

I guess so... Still curious to see the way that NetEnt games have been implemented into the PokerStars website though, cause right now there's no sign from such games there. Or I am missing something?

[Luciana]

There were some rumours about PokerStars starting casino section so long ago, that's why this is not so breaking news maybe

[sensen]

I guess so... Still curious to see the way that NetEnt games have been implemented into the PokerStars website though, cause right now there's no sign from such games there. Or I am missing something?

 

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Edited May 26, 2015 by ValDes
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[ValDes]

First of all, using external links without permission is against our Forum Rules. 

 

In addition, the link you provided led me to the main pokerstars page where there was no sign from slot games. Maybe it is some country based content filtering...

[Damian]

poker stars to be a casino? nice.

[Luciana]

In my opinion, it's strange they haven't started with it before

[zerooo]

I read about this in some poker forum and i was suprised because poker players don't like this thing with ˝casino˝. I know also that some members of Pokerstars team will leave just because this fact. I played it once here when i had some money on my balance but they don't offered a lot of NetEnt slots. Or maybe they add it later? Hmm.. that time when i was playing i saw only 3 or 4 from NetEnt.

[Adebisi213]

While I understand the concept of cross-selling, I'm not digging the trend of pokerrooms turning into semi online casinos. About every poker room now has casino games to lure players.

 

There is literally no poker room left now that only offers, just that, what it was built for, online poker games. Believe it or not, but if I want to focus on playing poker, I only want to be playing that game without them luring me into playing casino games.

[stars_cream]

I read about this in some poker forum and i was suprised because poker players don't like this thing with ˝casino˝. I know also that some members of Pokerstars team will leave just because this fact. I played it once here when i had some money on my balance but they don't offered a lot of NetEnt slots. Or maybe they add it later? Hmm.. that time when i was playing i saw only 3 or 4 from NetEnt.

 

Well there are two opinions from the poker players at Stars. The first one as you said dont like it because they think that the recreational players << the fishes>> will spent much of their balance at slots as they are faster  and easier to play. So they will lose much of the player pool and money of course. After all they strongly believe that poker has nothing to do with gambling and they dont want the site to have casino games. We are talking about Pokerstars and not any other small poker room . Its their TEMPLE.

 

The other side of the players and Amaya believe that casino games will attract many online casino players and many of them will play poker games so it will increase the traffic at the site so more money for them.

 

Time will show how this will go and who is right. I support the first opinion and i am against with the new owners recent changes.

BTW Have you seen how ugly their casino is???   I mean who will choose to play there when there are much more beautiful casinos which have great promotions for the players.

[zerooo]

You're right prince Myshkin. the lobby of casino looks awful for me, i don't saw any good promotions and i belive that Pokerstars will always be place where poker is on first place. I'm not happy about this casino, i tried it and i don't like it at all. But like you said maybe will be more fishes on poker rooms just because they offer casino.

[hajnrih]

I have played here, they have only about 60 slots, you can play when you download the app and the minimum deposit is 10$ via Neteller. Still their main orientation is Poker.

[Luciana]

I have played here, they have only about 60 slots, you can play when you download the app and the minimum deposit is 10$ via Neteller. Still their main orientation is Poker.

 

But anyway, they got really nice casino rank score at AskGamblers, so they probably have many other quality things and choices to offer

[raverbabe]

I absolutely hated the fact that PokerStars introduced casino games to their client, it was the one place left where I could escape from the temptation of negative expectation games with my poker winnings and now I have the worst of the worst games right in my face lol. I actually have some of the casino games disabled on some of my poker sites.

 

I understand they want to make more profit but come on, PokerStars are a world leader BY FAR in on-line poker, did they really need to do this?