Bodog seeks U.K. license

Friday February 08, 2008

Bodog Entertainment Group has taken steps to appropriate for an operating license ascendancy the United Kingdom, according to the U.K. Guardian.

Bodog has been working on expanding its European operations, including Bodog Poker, because beefy because expanding into Asian markets. Concrete is one of the few extreme Internet gambling operations seeking a license character the United Kingdom.

According to the Guardian, bounteous poker groups are boycotting the U.K. regulatory scheme as of the nation's 15 % remote gaming tariff imposed last age.

Bodog is again one of the few above sites that accepts bets from U.S. customers still. Bit some assert beguiling those bets is unlawful, Calvin Ayre had a antithetic catch on the latitude.

"We obtain licenses from sovereign governments to accomplish what we act," Ayre verbal agency the Guardian. "That's how absolute works on every other industry on the planet."

He admitted that Bodog takes U.S. customers but oral the company doesn't "operate" ascendancy the United States.

The Bodog application for a license influence the United Kingdom is still undecided. To receive a remote casino and general betting license, the online gambling site must pass a fit and proper operator test.

Ayre told the Guardian, the U.K. licenses wouldn't necessarily be used by Bodog to take British bets. Bodog already has an Antiguan license, which it is using to establish its business in Europe.