Authentic Gaming and Playtech sign long-term partnership agreement

Authentic Gaming and Playtech sign long-term partnership agreement

Playtech licensees able to access live streamed roulette from world’s largest land-based casinos

London: February 7th, 2018 – Playtech, the world’s leading Omni-channel gaming software, systems and services supplier, and premium live casino supplier Authentic Gaming and Playtech sign long-term partnership agreementAuthentic Gaming, have agreed a break-through partnership enabling Playtech licensees to access live streamed roulette from some of the world’s most famous land-based casinos.

Under the partnership, operators powered by Playtech Live casino software will gain access to live roulette tables located on the floors of land-based casinos, with real croupiers and real players, via Authentic Gaming’s live roulette streams.

Online players will be able to access live roulette games on any device from the following land-based properties:

• The Saint Vincent Resort Casino (Italy)

• Casino International Batumi at the Hilton Hotel (Georgia)

• The Platinum Casino at the Radisson BLU Hotel in Bucharest (Romania)

Authentic Gaming and Playtech have an option to expand the scale and scope of the partnership in the coming months, increasing the number of tables available to players and integrating Authentic’s premium table offering.

Shimon Akad, COO, Playtech, said: “We have watched the development of Authentic Roulette and other products and, after careful evaluation, we are delighted to have partnered with Authentic Gaming. Its range of tables, land-based casino partners and video stream quality is impressive.

“This will further increase the breadth and depth of our best-performing, next-generation offering which is the most advanced on the market today.”

Jonas Delin, Authentic Gaming, CEO, said: “Playtech is the world’s largest supplier of online gaming software. Through this co-distribution agreement, our land-based live roulette streams will reach the phones, tablets and desktops of a huge number of players through Playtech’s extensive portfolio of tier one online gaming operators. We see this partnership a further testament to our quality product and we look forward to a long and successful relationship.”

About Playtech

Playtech is a market leader in the gambling and financial trading industries. Founded in 1999 and listed on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange, Playtech has more than 5,000 employees in 17 countries.

Playtech is the gambling industry’s leading software and services supplier and partners with many of the world’s leading regulated online, retail and mobile operators, land-based casino groups, government sponsored entities such as lotteries, and new entrants opening operations in newly-regulated markets. Its business intelligence-driven gambling software offering includes casino, live casino, bingo, poker and sports betting.

It is the pioneer of Omni-channel gambling which, through Playtech ONE, offers operators and their customers, a seamless, anytime, anywhere experience across any product, any channel (online, mobile, retail) and any device using a single account and single wallet. It provides marketing expertise, sophisticated CRM solutions and other services for operators seeking a full turnkey solution.

Playtech’s Financials division operates both on a B2C and B2B basis. Its B2C focused offering is an established and growing online CFDs broker, operating the brand markets.com. Its B2B offering includes the division’s proprietary trading platform, CRM and back-office systems, as well as its liquidity technology platform which provides retail brokers with multi-asset execution, prime brokerage services, liquidity and complementary risk management tools.

For further information, contact:

Playtech plc

Mor Weizer, Chief Executive Officer

Andrew Smith, Chief Financial Officer

c/o Buchanan Communications

James Newman, Head of Investor Relations

+ 44 (0) 20 7466 5000

 

 

 

+44 (0)1624 645954

Buchanan Communications

David Rydell

About Authentic Gaming:

Authentic Gaming is a provider of premium live casino systems to online and land-based gaming operators. All Authentic Gaming tables are broadcasted live from the floors of luxurious resort casinos across the world. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Malta.