ET has a rather interesting article which states that a company named Empire Poker (legally based in the British Virgin Islands) together with Partypoker, based in India, run the world’s largest online poker room.
While the article itself is hazy on the details, a little digging around brought out the following details:
- EmpirePoker is just a skinned version of Partypoker.com with a few add-on features - they both use the same software.
- Partypoker.com is owned and run by a company named iGlobalMedia, which is apparently based in India.
- iGlobalMedia write the underlying software for these online gambling sites and license it out to other sites.
- The domains in question are all registered in the British Virgin Islands or in the Dominican Republic. There is no mention of India in any of the DNS information, nor on any of the sites.
iGlobalMedia, a privately held company, founded in 1997 as a five member operation, has since grown to over 180 full-time professionals, managing over 100 on-line gaming sites, with operations in the Caribbean region and India. In short, iGlobalMedia is a leading Internet gaming company successfully managing more than 3,000,000 hits per day, millions of dollars in monthly deposits, and one of the largest and most impressive systems on the Internet today, with more than US$200 million in financial transactions and over US$4 billion in wagers annually.
- The actual owner of empirepoker.com is based in the Netherlands.
Altogether, a rather dubious setup, especially when you consider that gambling is illegal in mainland India. Click here for the original article.
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