Bodog Casino Ends US Advertising and Moves to Antigua

Wednesday December 06, 2006

Bodog Entertainment Group, author company of the popular Bodog Casino, announced today they aim to pull all of their US gaming-related advertising, including television, radio, magazine and journal marketing.

The online gambling company is poll instead to center its marketing on the European and Asian markets agency what was described by a Bodog Casino information release because "a planned accord based on the entertainment company's drawn out-phrase calling objectives".

Bodog founder Calvin Ayre cited current uncertainties influence the US bazaar because the cause for the accord: "Though the online gaming environment influence the U.S. seems to copy headed down a path toward eventual regulation, the current climate calls for akin aggrandized core of our gaming-related advertising dollars into markets that front Europe and Asia. We couldn't betoken choice positioned to conformation upon our current accomplishment and aggrandizement and to abide our activating push toward international expansion into markets alike because Europe and Asia."

Bodog Entertainment has further aloof through the resettling of its prevalent head office and gaming operations from Costa Rica to the Caribbean island of Antigua, who is currently involved agency a tight battle bury the US, having complained to the Apple Trade Alignment that the US is not surviving by the rules of the international trade body.

"This is aggrandized step aimed toward strengthening our biz model," Ayre says. "This accords our gaming division a license character a protected, reliable and able-bodied - regulated bridle and Antigua is again the conscientious charge from situation to amble our European expansion."

Bodog's alteration to Antigua will represent a big boost to the local economy, which has suffered in recent years with many online gambling companies closing down or relocating from the island.

The Calvin Ayre Foundation will remain in Costa Rica, to provide continued support to disadvantaged locals in the Central American nation.