Poker is a truly international sport. Take a look at the field in any major online poker tournament and you’ll see players from different continents battling it out against each other with one common goal in mind: winning. Online sports book, casino, and poker room bwin recently announced that it has launched its Bulgarian website, extending its presence in 22 different languages, encompassing most of Europe.
Kevin O’Neal, bwin’s Press Officer, commented in a recent release by the company, “We are delighted to have colored one of the last blank areas of the European Union in the bwin colors. Bulgarian customers have already been able to enjoy our products, only so far everything was in a foreign language for them. Now that the full customization for Bulgaria is completed, we are looking forward to appealing to a broader audience in this promising market.”
The Bulgarian version of bwin will appear in the home language as well as use a “localized betting offer, local payment partners, and editorial content customized for the Bulgarian market.” The website offers 8,000 bets every single day across more than 80 sports. Its parent company’s stock is traded on the Vienna Stock Exchange under the symbol “BWIN” and it is licensed by the government of Gibraltar.
The online poker site is a member of the Ongame Network, which includes rooms such as Betsson, Eurobet, EuroPoker, Hollywood Poker, PokerLoco, PokerRoom, RedKings, and Stryyke, just to name a few. As such, it offers access to The Grand, a guaranteed prize pool tournament that takes place on the last weekend of every month. It’s a $1,040 buy-in high-stakes event and bwin customers can qualify for as little as $1.10. Every player in The Grand begins with 10,000 chips and blind levels are 30 minutes long.
Poker players on bwin also flock to the site for The Big Deal, which occurs every Sunday. It’s a $320 buy-in tournament with a $50,000 guaranteed prize pool. The tournament starts at 18:00 GMT. A series of Euro Daily and Canadian Daily tournaments kick off during the week at times that are convenient for its target customers to play. It’s a unique opportunity for poker enthusiasts to play with residents of their own part of the world.
Besides Bulgarian, bwin also appears in English, German, Italian, Spanish, Swedish, French, Turkish, Greek, Polish, Norwegian, Danish, Catalan, Czech, Hungarian, Dutch, Portuguese, Russian, Slovenian, Croatian, Slovak, and Romanian. These languages encompass most of the continent of Europe, solidifying bwin as accessible no matter what the customer’s native tongue is. It reflects a growing trend in the online poker industry to translate content and site controls into as many different languages as possible.
The Ongame Network and bwin are in the midst of the Poker Island promotion, which invites a rotating team of poker players to live in a house in Ibiza, a luxurious island. The residents swam, parasailed, and then hit the felts against each other. The winner will become a poker pro for a year, piling up $100,000 in live tournament buy-ins including the World Poker Tour’s Five Diamond Classic, the World Series of Poker, WPT Championship, and the WSOP Europe. The entire stay on Ibiza is being filmed for television. This weekend, popular singer Triinu Kivilaan is making her way to the villa on Ibiza. A live stream is available on the official website, PokerIsland.tv. The event runs until October 30th.
