The owner of Nextpoker, Abbantina Malta Ltd., has released a statement denying Ongame Network’s recent claims that Nextpoker made “repeated rakeback violations” and was therefore excluded from its network. The claim, the poker site said in a prepared statement, is “totally false.”
The group says it is considering legal action as a result of Ongame’s Nov. 3 announcement.
“Nextpoker launched on Ongame in the summer of 2007 in the hope of joining a major, rakeback-free, network,” the statement said. “It soon became clear that Ongame was far from rakeback-free.”
Abbantina Malta alleges that Ongame operators continue to “offer rakeback to end customers through special agreements with Ongame, and at the same time, a vicious bonus war had broken out, pushing down the margins of mainly small and medium size operators on Ongame.”
Ongame is owned by Bwin Interactive Entertainment A.G.