About a month after Boss Media announced that it was planning to power an online poker site for veteran partner Svenska Spel, the two companies can indeed embark on this initiative. Although the two companies decided a month ago to expand their partnership to include online poker, Svenska Spel had yet to receive approval for an Internet poker license. Boss Media announced this week that Svenska was awarded a license to operate poker online, allowing the two companies to put their planning into effect.

The license was necessary before any poker applications could be implemented at Svenska Spel's online gaming site, svenskaspel.se, which incidentally, is also powered by Boss Media. Nonetheless, anticipating a positive outcome, Boss Media got a head start on laying the groundwork necessary to launch a poker site, even before the license was in the bag.

Commenting on the two companies' online poker initiative, Peter Bertilsson, President of Boss Media , said, "We are breaking new ground together with Svenska Spel. Internet poker is a very successful product, and the state operators are all very strong in their national markets."

Source:  Poker777 Staff

Saturday, 26 November 2005