{"id":34030,"date":"2016-02-23T20:04:20","date_gmt":"2016-02-24T04:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/?p=34030"},"modified":"2016-02-23T20:04:20","modified_gmt":"2016-02-24T04:04:20","slug":"borgata-gvc-relationship-in-meltdown-sources-maintain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/borgata-gvc-relationship-in-meltdown-sources-maintain\/","title":{"rendered":"Borgata GVC Relationship in Meltdown, Sources Maintain"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Is the Borgata GVC online alliance headed for divorce court? Rumors have circulated that GAN and Pala may soon take partypoker\u2019s spot with the Atlantic City casino. (Image: NBC40.net)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Borgata GVC alliance in Atlantic City, much like a human relationship, may be unravelling due to a more attractive new prospect for at least one of the parties involved.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s the whiff of intrigue in the New Jersey online gaming market this week, anyway, as news surfaces that market-leader Borgata-party is soon to be no more, with the Borgata Casino apparently ditching partypoker and its new owner GVC Holdings for a new platform provider, GAN.<\/p>\n

The twist is, GVC hotly denies that this is true.<\/p>\n

eGaming Review <\/i>(EGR) broke the news this week, following industry rumors that had been swirling around since last Friday.<\/p>\n

On Friday, GAN (formerly the Game Account Network) issued a press release announcing that it had extended its existing play-money money deal with Borgata to offer real-money gaming, and that it would have \u201cthe opportunity to service Borgata\u2019s real money Regulated Gaming online experience in the event certain conditions are met.\u201d<\/p>\n

GAN and Pala New Partners<\/b><\/h2>\n

According to \u201csources close to the situation\u201d who spoke to EGR, GAN has indeed been selected to become the official platform provider for Borgata\u2019s BorgataCasino.com, with the transition expected to take place before the end of Q2.<\/p>\n

EGR also claims that Borgata will switch its poker platform provider to California-based Pala Interactive, whose CEO, Jim Ryan, was once upon a time the co-CEO of bwin.party. It\u2019s all very six degrees of separation.<\/p>\n

GVC Denial<\/b><\/h2>\n

But a spokesperson for GVC said this week there had been \u201cno change\u201d in the company\u2019s relationship with the Borgata.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are in the process of applying for a New Jersey license and remain focused on securing all the necessary permissions to continue to provide the Borgata with its market-leading online poker and casino offering,\u201d said the spokesperson.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Just three days before GVC\u2019s takeover of bwin, the company petitioned the New Jersey<\/a> Division of Gaming Enforcement (DGE) to continue to provide the Borgata platform, while its own application for a license is considered.<\/p>\n

DGE director David Rebuck granted the temporary license, under the condition that GVC would have no \u201coperational or management control or influence\u201d until its main application was accepted.<\/p>\n

Gray Market Concerns\u00a0<\/b><\/h2>\n

But GVC\u2019s engagement with various grey markets around the world has clearly concerned the Borgata, which must have thought there was a very real possibility that GVC<\/a> would be refused a New Jersey license.<\/p>\n

The announcement, just days after the completion of the acquisition, that partypoker.com would be returning to 21 gray markets from which it had withdrawn in 2003, might well have increased the clamor of those alarm bells.<\/p>\n

It also suggested that, for all intents and purposes, GVC was fairly unconcerned about whether it received a Garden State gaming license or not.<\/p>\n

According to EGR, GVC and Borgata are currently locked in \u201csensitive contract negations,\u201d which might explain the former\u2019s denial of any change to the status quo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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