Tain poker to integrate with InstaDeal
Various poker skins to offer fast-fold poker from Swedish company.
Egaming platform provider Tain has begun integrating InstaDeal’s fast-fold poker offering into its portfolio of poker sites.
Tain is the latest partner to integrate the offering after Plus-Five Gaming, and will see a selection of predominantly iPoker skins including BetnGo and Parimatch take on the fast-paced online and mobile poker variant. A spokesman for Tain told eGaming Review “As with all integrations to the Tain Commons Platform, once a gaming platform is integrated it will technically become available to all Tain skins. Who will come first is yet to be found out.”
Two former iPoker skins, Pokerhuis and Gutshot Poker, became InstaDeal partners in May after moving their primary poker offering to the Enet and Merge networks.
A number of iPoker skins have already introduced the Speed Hold’em offering which is expected to be rolled out across the Playtech-owned network before the end of the year, and Tain’s sites will have the option of either service once the integration of InstaDeal is completed “In a few weeks from now,” according to the spokesman.
One Tain skin, Moore Games, was recently suspended from the network following a breach of policy, with Playtech pledging to work with Tain to ensure player funds are safe for withdrawal.
Alongside the Tain integration, InstaDeal is looking to expand its offering beyond its flagship poker product, with founder Per Hildebrand telling eGR that “We are also extending our own turnkey offering with a sportsbook from Betting Promotion where partners soon can get a white label for web and mobile including InstaDeal, Casino and Sports.”
Hildebrand added that the company is currently developing some “luck-based” poker games to the InstaDeal offering, which he said “Could make the product interesting for operators that already have a fast-fold poker through another network as it will differentiate the product from the rest and appeal more to casino players.” However he was unable to divulge any further details.
Since InstaDeal launched what was at the time the only fast-fold poker product on the market, several months after the closure of Full Tilt Poker meant Rush Poker was no longer available, a number of networks and operators have followed Hildebrand’s approach that Tilt’s version “was never patentable”.
PokerStars brought out its Zoom offering for cash games in May, with the iPoker and Microgaming networks following suit with their own similar products. Meanwhile PartyPoker beta-launched its Fast Forward offering earlier this month, and Relax Gaming has licensed out its Fast Poker product to sites on various networks.