24hPoker, WagerWorks Form Partnership

Online poker network operator, 24hPoker and online gaming solutions provider, WagerWorks, have signed a letter of intent. The deal would see each company offer the other’s network its games. WagerWorks would get to use 24hPoker’s poker product and 24h would get to use WagerWorks’ casino games.

Currenly, the 24hNetwork offers casino games from Net Entertainment. This agreement will allow the network to give its customers “all the egaming products they want.”

WagerWorks is the online subsidiary of International Game Technology (IGT), which supplies multitudes of slot and video gaming machines to casinos. The majority of the most popular machines in land-based casinos are from IGT, such as Game King video poker and slots, Wheel of Fortune slots, Price is Right slots, Multi Strike Poker, and Spin Poker. WagerWorks has translated many of the IGT suite of games to suit online gaming sites.

24hPoker network members include such names as Gutshot.com, MartinsPoker.com, and, of course, 24hPoker.com. 24h’s chief executive Per Hildebrand also said the company would be adding Boss Media’s poker room by mid-March.

Originally published 4:16 PM Friday, February 23, 2007