Poker Stars Partners With Hippodrome To Launch Online Casino & Poker

The Hippodrome Casino in London has newly partnered with online poker giant Poker Stars, one result being the widely reported upcoming launch of The Hippodrome Casino Online.

Poker Stars and London’s The Hippodrome Casino have teamed up with one consequence being the anticipated launch of an online Hippodrome Casino powered by the same software that runs Poker Stars, Microgaming. And the new Hippodrome Casino online with be run by the Betway Group.

Another result of the PokerStars-Hippodrome partnership is a PokerStars LIVE poker room in the brick-and-mortar Hippodrome in London, opening on March 4, 2013. This will make the Hippodrome the second casino to offer a PokerStars LIVE room, the first launching earlier in the month at Casino Gran Madrid.

The Hippodrome online casino will feature rich color photographs taken inside the actual Hippodrome. Throughout players online experience they can roam through different recognizable Hippodrome rooms and other locations. It’s also said the games offered on the Hippodrome online casino will mirror the games offered in the land-based Hippodrome Casino. In addition to standard casino games, the online Hippodrome Casino will also offer online poker, which it is said will be run by PokerStars itself. Players will be allowed (and even encouraged) to deposit funds in person at the brick-and-mortar Hippodrome Casino to be used at the online casino, and likewise deposit funds in the land-based casino’s PokerStars LIVE room for use in the Hippodrome’s online poker room.

The Hippodrome first opened in July of 2012 and is the largest land-based casino in the U.K..

The expected URL for the new online casino offering from the Hippodrome and the makers of PokerStars is the unfortunately long: Hippodromeonline {dot} com.