One of the leading online casino content developers Microgaming has recently revealed its decision to shut down operations at its Microgaming Poker Network in 2020. The news was revealed this week on the company’s official website while the decision was made after Microgaming’s very extensive review of the network’s product portfolio. This extremely popular, award-winning poker network that has attracted fans of poker games from all over the world has been active for more than sixteen years.
Since its establishment, it has provided players with the highest quality online gaming experienced to poker players from all over the world. It is part of the primary European poker networks best known for its extremely popular Fist Party of Spin and Go poker tournaments and a great selection of poker games in loads of different variants. Some of its most popular rooms include Redkings, Betsson Poker, Redstar, Betsafe Poker, Guts Poker, Nordicbet Poker, and Betway poker.
These Microgaming Poker Network rooms in addition to being loaded with online poker games and tournaments to match everyone’s bankroll are also popular for their generous deposit bonuses and favorable rakeback offers. Moreover, register poker fans and enthusiasts can take benefit of fast cashouts as well as high stakes online poker actions offered at all times. Unfortunately, MPN is about to close its doors in 2020.
Loads of Cash Games and Online Poker Tournaments
Microgaming is one of the true iGaming pioneers. Since creating the very first online casino venue, the company has been at the very forefront of the iGaming industry since its very beginnings. Besides its extensive library including hundreds of online casino games, the company is also well-known for its Microgaming Poker Network which consists of a number of big betting brands that came together to create more exciting games, to offer better promotion and to provide bigger online tournaments.
With such a massive player base, Microgaming Poker Network is one of the industry’s busier networks of this kind packed with more than thirty skins by some of the leading names when it comes to European betting. When it comes to its cash games, the network’s lobby features loads of cash tables for two, six and nine players while the majority of the overall traffic happens around the lower stakes and micro stakes games.
Due to its size, the poker network is big enough to accommodate every single poker hand and player at any time including actions at mid-stakes tables and up even during the extremely popular European weekends and evenings. Those players who enjoy faster gaming actions can join Blaze Poker which features games that are four times faster than average poker cash games.
Besides loads of cash games, Microgaming Poker Network features a variety of tournaments including its Sunday Showdown that features a guaranteed prize pool of €25,000. In addition, there are also big money guaranteed tournaments offered on Mondays and Thursdays. There is also a variety of monthly tournaments such as its Masters with a prize pool of around €60,000 guaranteed.
Details About Its Closure Coming in the Following Weeks
As revealed by the company’s official press release, this poker network launched back in 2003 is about to shut down in 2020. The company did not share many details about the network’s closure just that more will be revealed in the following weeks. In the meantime, its registered players will have full access to cash games, tournaments and promotions.
Commenting on the news, the company’s CEO Mr. Coleman said that the poker networks no longer fit the company’s strategic vision and this is the main reason behind its closure. He also added that Microgaming will focus on efficiently redistributing personnel and resources across the business. Moreover, he added that this move does not represent the end for Microgaming online poker, but just one step forward to achieving new business visions in a new strategic direction which the company’s officials will reveal soon.
