Tom Horn Enterprise, Diamond Bay Ltd. and Celebrity Poker Ltd launch the world’s first online poker room with integrated webcams
The software development team of Tom Horn Enterprise, Inc. has integrated its own online casino platform, streaming solution and new poker engine into one solid solution.
Monday 29th March 2010
25th March 2010 (Bratislava, Slovakia - San José, Costa Rica – Prague, Czech Republic)
The software development team of Tom Horn Enterprise Inc. (THE), Diamond Bay Ltd. (DBay), a Costa Rican company who bring the thrilling experience of online casino gambling to players around the globe and Celebrity Poker s.r.o (CP)., a land-based casino marketing company providing a unique concept of the land-based poker tournament - Celebrity Poker Tour announce the launch of their joint project: The world’s first online poker room with integrated webcams - FacePokerLive.com.
FacePokerLive.com is the only poker room which brings back common land-based poker play values such us emotions, poker faces and the possibility to get to know your opponents not just through statistics. Apart from the classic Texas holdem ring game, FacePokerLive.com also offers prize tournaments and a special league connected directly to the Celebrity Poker Tour. The option to use a webcam is not mandatory but optional in most tournaments and ring game tables.
FacePokerLive.com poker software is completely web based, thanks to Adobe Flash platform, also multiplatform. No matter if you are a Mac, PC or Linux user, everybody with the latest browsers and Adobe Flash plug-in can play Face Poker.
“Seeing their rival’s face and the possibility to talk is a crucial element for us to launch a completely new poker room“, said Jim Harwey, managing director of DBay. “In 2010, the whole industry was waiting for something really new and I am really proud to announce that FacePokerLive.com is a new thing to the player. We would like to attract not just poker players currently bored by the same-game-again but also completely new players who love poker and its live form but who could not find a common online world interesting for them. Our target market is primarily Central Europe”.
Face Poker also rids the players of doubt or suspicion whether or not they are playing against a robot – and it brings real emotions in a poker-straight faced world on screen. What’s more, Face Poker can be combined with traditional online casino or can be implemented to third party gaming solutions such as existing poker networks or live dealer game solutions.
Tom Horn Enterprise’s Face Poker, presented in Eig Copenhagen and London ICEi gaming expos, is a webcam full poker solution where individual players can see each other as well as communicate with each other using a chat module.“I am very happy that our latest technology can finally reach the ones for whom we developed it, the real poker player” said Jan Horyna, Business Director of THE.
“Our tournament is about faces and celebrities and we have our goal: the real poker fun. We have refused several offers from the big poker rooms for that reason. They do not have the fun element which is our core value. When I saw FacePokerLive.com, I knew from the very beginning that this is it” said David Holubek, General Director of CP. Celebrity Poker Tour is a special land-based poker tournament, with 25 Czech and Slovak casinos currently involved, allowing poker players to play poker against #1 regional celebrities such as Leoš Mareš - #1 TV and Radio star, Iveta Lutovská - Miss Czech 2009, Eliška Bučková – Miss Czech 2008 as well as famous model and vice Miss 2005 -Agáta Hanychová.
http://www.tomhorn.eu/en/company/press/30.html
Tom Horn Enterprise, Inc. is a privately held software development company based in Slovakia (Bratislava) with subsidiaries in the Czech Republic (Prague, Brno). Tom Horn Enterprise, Inc. develops mainly server-based solutions. From internet-based gaming systems for online casino and webcam poker (including its own payments and accounting system) to video lottery terminal gaming platforms and certified payment and banking systems. The company is a leading provider of video and mobile streaming in CCE. In 2007, THE have been selected among the TOP 20 mobile television private companies by Red Herring Institute.
25th March 2010 (Bratislava, Slovakia - San José, Costa Rica – Prague, Czech Republic)
The software development team of Tom Horn Enterprise Inc. (THE), Diamond Bay Ltd. (DBay), a Costa Rican company who bring the thrilling experience of online casino gambling to players around the globe and Celebrity Poker s.r.o (CP)., a land-based casino marketing company providing a unique concept of the land-based poker tournament - Celebrity Poker Tour announce the launch of their joint project: The world’s first online poker room with integrated webcams - FacePokerLive.com.
FacePokerLive.com is the only poker room which brings back common land-based poker play values such us emotions, poker faces and the possibility to get to know your opponents not just through statistics. Apart from the classic Texas holdem ring game, FacePokerLive.com also offers prize tournaments and a special league connected directly to the Celebrity Poker Tour. The option to use a webcam is not mandatory but optional in most tournaments and ring game tables.
FacePokerLive.com poker software is completely web based, thanks to Adobe Flash platform, also multiplatform. No matter if you are a Mac, PC or Linux user, everybody with the latest browsers and Adobe Flash plug-in can play Face Poker.
“Seeing their rival’s face and the possibility to talk is a crucial element for us to launch a completely new poker room“, said Jim Harwey, managing director of DBay. “In 2010, the whole industry was waiting for something really new and I am really proud to announce that FacePokerLive.com is a new thing to the player. We would like to attract not just poker players currently bored by the same-game-again but also completely new players who love poker and its live form but who could not find a common online world interesting for them. Our target market is primarily Central Europe”.
Face Poker also rids the players of doubt or suspicion whether or not they are playing against a robot – and it brings real emotions in a poker-straight faced world on screen. What’s more, Face Poker can be combined with traditional online casino or can be implemented to third party gaming solutions such as existing poker networks or live dealer game solutions.
Tom Horn Enterprise’s Face Poker, presented in Eig Copenhagen and London ICEi gaming expos, is a webcam full poker solution where individual players can see each other as well as communicate with each other using a chat module.“I am very happy that our latest technology can finally reach the ones for whom we developed it, the real poker player” said Jan Horyna, Business Director of THE.
“Our tournament is about faces and celebrities and we have our goal: the real poker fun. We have refused several offers from the big poker rooms for that reason. They do not have the fun element which is our core value. When I saw FacePokerLive.com, I knew from the very beginning that this is it” said David Holubek, General Director of CP. Celebrity Poker Tour is a special land-based poker tournament, with 25 Czech and Slovak casinos currently involved, allowing poker players to play poker against #1 regional celebrities such as Leoš Mareš - #1 TV and Radio star, Iveta Lutovská - Miss Czech 2009, Eliška Bučková – Miss Czech 2008 as well as famous model and vice Miss 2005 -Agáta Hanychová.
http://www.tomhorn.eu/en/company/press/30.html
Tom Horn Enterprise, Inc. is a privately held software development company based in Slovakia (Bratislava) with subsidiaries in the Czech Republic (Prague, Brno). Tom Horn Enterprise, Inc. develops mainly server-based solutions. From internet-based gaming systems for online casino and webcam poker (including its own payments and accounting system) to video lottery terminal gaming platforms and certified payment and banking systems. The company is a leading provider of video and mobile streaming in CCE. In 2007, THE have been selected among the TOP 20 mobile television private companies by Red Herring Institute.