Gala Casinos Cancels Tour
One of the most popular online casinos and poker tours in the United Kingdom
recently enounced that they will be canceling their very popular Gala Poker
Tour. The tour has been very well received over the past couple of years as a
great way for professional poker players to showcase their skills. The tour has
been so popular that is took 6 regional festivals all hosted at Gala Casinos to
host the event it self. This was not an easy decision for them to make but it
made a clear statement that they do want to focus all of their efforts onto
their online casino. Some insiders are criticizing the move by saying that their
latest move does not make sense in the current economy. The folks at Gala Casino
believe the opposite.
It is probably due to the current harsh economic climate that the company
decided to cut out all overhead costs from hosting a land based poker tour and
focus all of their attentions to running a successful online casino. The land
based casinos owned by Gala Casinos have a number of jackpot games and have
prizes that go all the way up to $14 million. Numbers like these will surely
attract players from online casinos everywhere. This doesn’t mean that they will
never have a land based poker tournament. In fact they will be hosting several
satellite games for some poker tournaments. They have said that it is not
fiscally the smartest thing to run the tournament as if business were the same
as always.
They have had a great run of these huge land based poker tournaments and will
surely have a good run at having an online
casino. With online casinos growing
as fast of a rate as they have been it was only a matter of time before a land
based casino giant made the move to internet gambling. The United Kingdom will
be losing its most popular land based poker tour so that means that there may or
may not be any other companies that will try to take that reign from them. If
the largest casino tour cannot afford to host an event like that, why would
smaller and lesser known companies try? One thing is clear, the fact that such a
large company is cutting most of its land based ties and going to the internet
sends a signal to everyone that online gambling is here to stay.