The biggest reason for this though is that the authorities wanted to spread around the opportunity here and even though this has the appearance of segregating the market into three online operations, it is very integrated when you go beyond the façade of branding. The overall idea here is to allow different brands to compete for the business of Delaware’s online poker market and this is supposed to drive more traffic in theory anyway, especially since each has their own clientele at their land based operations, and having them promote their online poker and gambling directly likely has a positive effect.

So these are also separate operations in terms of management and there are some differences between them in spite of all offering the same tables and games, but these differences aren‘t really significant. So Dover Downs and the other 2 racetrack casinos in the state, Delaware Park and Harrington Raceway, all have a stake in online poker here, although they all have combined to form a single online poker network, where they all share the same tables and players. So when Delaware was looking to start offering online poker, it was only natural that the racinos in the state were given the privilege, as they already host all of the land based gambling here, and the state wanted to make sure that the online operations were given to the in state land based interests, as Nevada and New Jersey had done. There’s even a speedway on location which hosts Nascar Sprint Cup races. Dover Downs is a pretty big operation in Delaware, with over 2,300 slot machines, and a wide variety of table games including a live poker room with 12 tables, in addition to being a racetrack, which is where the name Downs comes from, which it was prior to also becoming the largest hotel casino in the state.

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