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Zynga’s looking for someone to create its real-money poker platform

July 23, 2012 4:37 PM
Mike Minotti
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All bets are off! Social game giant Zynga is looking to get into real-money online gambling, and it’s looking for someone to help build the platform for it. Now e-gaming companies are fighting over the potentially lucrative contract.

Established online casino developers GTECH G2 and Playtech have already made bids to create this new poker infrastructure for Zynga, according to a report from EGR Magazine.

Social casino game players currently make up 13 percent of all Facebook gamers in 2012, an increase from 8 percent in 2011. This has caused online gambling to become one of the hottest trends in the industry. A bipartisan group of U.S. Senators is currently working on legalizing online poker. If that happens, social versions of the card game can deal in actual cash, a prospect Zynga is certainly hoping for.

GamesBeat has reached out to Zynga, who declined to comment.

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    As stated in my previous article if I was Zynga I would be tempted to look more at the less obvious candidates on this perhaps the likes of SkyPoker as a tech partner where Zynga can take the lead in specification as the network is small enough for them to be a dominant voice and controlling influence. Whatever choice they make it could have a big impact and in my mind they may as well start beta tests in the UK market as soon as they can get something up.

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