London/Stockholm, 17th November. Ongame, the world's third-largest online poker network announced its entrance into Eastern Europe with the launch in Poland and Russia of Europoker.com, a real-money poker website. Ongame is the first of the major online gambling operators to make poker available online to Polish and Russian players in their native languages.



Online and casino poker in Russia is still in an embryonic stage. Dmitry Lesnoi, publisher of the monthly magazine Casino Games said, “Five years ago, there was a total of 200 people playing poker regularly in Moscow, and now there are thousands of players playing on the Internet and in casinos.” The market in Russia is growing and could potentially be a huge.