PokerStars in Romania, and Eastern Europe
Although they planned in opening offices in Eastern European countries (including Romania) around September – October, looks like PokerStars is still stuggleing to find out a head office manager for the countries. Maybe it’s hard to find out a man to handle the whole PS concept, have the relations and implement the program for development in those countries, but at least for Romania – it’s enough to take Daniel Negreanu on a trip to Bucharest and let him choose the manager for the branch.
I mean you have such a great poker name on your side, and you let the market that SHOULD be yours to be taken by competition like PartyPoker, UltimateBet and even LuckyAce or some second hand brands …. c’mon PokerStars? What the hell are you doing, you should know to read and react to poker markets all around the world; instead your taking the way to short your chip stack asap, and you probabily will be forced soon to go all-in with BiG Blind.
My opinion: you should need to reevaluate your managers from the London office. Not owning the Romanian online poker and not involving into the Romanian poker / casino events, while having maybe the most famous Romanian poker player on exclusive contract – and much more – skiping Bucharest and making the EPT (European Poker Tour) in Budapesta, while on Bucharest you got access not only to Romanian players but also it’s an intersection of Bulgarian, Israelian, Italian and Russian poker players with some Turks, Greeks and Germans along the casino halls … it means one strong thing to me, as a person who watch and was involved in the casino / poker business for the last year: Major market misreading, wrong development plans.
Poker Stars, after all, is poker stars, but in the Romanian market, there’s Party Poker, without Negreanu. I should feel ashamed for this misfortune.
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Let me understand.
You say that PokerStars isn’t in Romania at all? And what connection has Daniel Negreanu with your country, he’s a Canadian. Or is he popular in Romania also?
Daniel Negreanu is Romanian, his parents came from Romania and they run away from our country because of the soviet / communist dictatorship. Negreanu is a 100% Romanian name, and even if he is currently representing Canada on international contest, he speaks and I think he also feels a little bit Romanian inside. Same as other Romanians who made a name in the world: C. Brancusi, M. Eliade, E. Cioran, N. Comaneci or I. Nastase
PokerStars doesn’t currently have an office in Romania, and from my knowledge, they are losing a big part of the profits made by rival and less competitive brands on the market. What I’ve said is that because of Daniel, they could lead the market – the software has a friendly and easy to use interface, they accept most of the payment options, and have 100.000+ players worldwide.
bummer
Hello,
Great job. But not enought info. Where can i read more?
Thank you
AlexAxe
you can have more from pokerstars or pokernews.com.
currently, romania doesn’t have it’s own poker inside news or magazine to stay informed about the domain.
Hello,
I have already seen it somethere…
Thanks
Tania
Great post! Just wanted to let you know you have a new subscriber- me!
The article is ver good. Write please more
How soon will you update your blog? I’m interested in reading some more information on this issue.
I heard something about this yesterday on a global news program.
Daniel Negreanu is Romanian, his parents came from Romania and they run away from our country because of the soviet / communist dictatorship. Negreanu is a 100% Romanian name, and even if he is currently representing Canada on international contest, he speaks and I think he also feels a little bit Romanian inside. Same as other Romanians who made a name in the world: C. Brancusi, M. Eliade, E. Cioran, N. Comaneci or I. Nastase
PokerStars doesn’t currently have an office in Romania, and from my knowledge, they are losing a big part of the profits made by rival and less competitive brands on the market. What I’ve said is that because of Daniel, they could lead the market – the software has a friendly and easy to use interface, they accept most of the payment options, and have 100.000+ players worldwide.
Amy,
Daniel Negreanu feels he’s part Romanian and he also treasures the heritage from his parents, originally from Sibiu area (I think, not sure). And, compared with most of the people here, he’s proud of his Romanian links.
As for PokerStars, they have a HQ for the Eastern Europe in Budapest – Hungary (runned by Gabor Vida and later on by Ivan Nemeth – http://hu.linkedin.com/in/nemethivan )and one-man offices in the rest of the EE countries, so for Romania they have Cristina Calinoiu as country manager ( http://ro.linkedin.com/in/cristinacalinoiu ), and from my knowledge they have somewhere between 3-5.000 Romanians subscribed to their poker room.
Let me understand.
You say that PokerStars isn’t in Romania at all? And what connection has Daniel Negreanu with your country, he’s a Canadian. Or is he popular in Romania also?
PokerStars has from 2009 a country manager in Bucharest.
Daniel Negreanu was born in Canada from Romanian parents, so he’s part Canadian, part Romanian – here you can read more about it http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Negreanu