PokerStars announced a partnership with Genting Casinos UK this week. The two agreed to cross-promote in major online and offline events throughout 2017.
The deal represents a business alliance by one of the biggest names in online gambling and one of the biggest corporations in the land-based casino industry. PokerStars is the world’s biggest online poker site. Genting is the owner of land-based casinos such as Resorts World Sentosa, Resorts World New York City, and Crockfords Casino.
The deal means Genting Poker Series (GPS) events will be located in the PokerStars lobby. Those who want to win entry into GPS events can do so on PokerStars now.
PokerStars Team Members at GPS Main Events
Also, the GPS Series is going to include four PokerStars MEGASTACK live events during the company’s GPS Mini & Main Event festivals this year.
In related news, Jake Cody of PokerStars Team Pro said he would appear at the events to support them.
UK-based professional poker players should take the partnership deal as good news. It means they should be able to cut down on traveling expenses, since grinders will be able to double-up on some of the best-funded live poker events in the United Kingdom.
4 PokerStars-Genting MEGASTACKS Events
PokerStars and Genting Casinos UK have not announced the site of the four £170 buy-in MEGASTACK events, but the GPS event schedule has been released, so interested players should be able to determine the likeliest locations for the MEGASTACK events.
Genting Casinos UK owns a significant number of brick-and-mortar gaming venues in the United Kingdom, including Crockford’s Casino in London. The following list of events constitute the GPS Series for 2017.
- 13 July – Genting Casino Luton
- 20 July – Resorts World Birmingham
- 17 August – Genting Casino Stoke
- 30 August – Genting Casino Liverpool Queen Square
- 28 September – Genting Casino Fountain Park
- 12 October – Genting Casino Sheffield
- 26 October – Genting Casino Torquay
- 16 November – Genting Casino Westcliff
- 16 November – Genting Casino Newcastle
Genting Casinos UK Profile
Genting Casinos UK is the British-based division of Genting Group Limited. Genting is a Malaysian casino, leisure, and commercial multinational conglomerate best known for the “Resorts World” casinos.
Genting’s list of casinos includes Resorts World Sentosa in Singapore, Resorts World Manila in the Philippines, and Resorts World New York in Queens. In 2019, Genting Group plans to open the most expensive and largest casinos in the history of Las Vegas: Resorts World Las Vegas. The $4.2 billion complex is expected to be both an integrated resort, vast casino, and Las Vegas landmark.
Genting Group Limited Profile
Besides owning a global casino gaming network, Genting Group also owns a large string of hotels and resorts, banana plantations, and oil platforms in Southeast Asia. Genting has made numerous Top 10 lists of the best corporations in Asia.
Because it is more than a simple gambling company, Genting Group Ltd. is sometimes excluded from lists of the most successful or richest casino companies. When one considers its vast revenue streams in other industries, Genting might be the biggest gaming-related corporation in the world. The company said it would like to build a $10 billion Resorts World casino in Japan — and it has the financial wherewithal to bid that high on a single casino project.
Genting Group is the owner of Crockfords Casino, which was sued professional poker player Phil Ivey in an edge-sorting case. Genting and Crockfords accused Phil Ivey of using a technique to gain an advantage over the house during his high stakes baccarat sessions at their London casino. Because Crockfords’ management would not pay a 7.6 British pounds bill for their gaming losses, Phil Ivey sued them.
The Crockfords case alerted Borgata that the $9.6 million Phil Ivey won at their baccarat tables in the summer of 2012 also involved edge-sorting. Borgata sued Ivey and won a $10.1 million settlement, based upon his winnings and the comps from the huge amount of gambling Ivey did at the high roller table.
Phil Ivey lost the Crockfords case, too, but his appeal is still being heard by the UK Supreme Court.
