Lock Poker Singled out by LGA?

Aug 29, 2011
Discriminatory action in Malta A disturbing and apparently discriminatory behavior of the Malta Lotteries and Gaming Authority (LGA) has been reported this week, as the organization locked out Lock Poker without providing any specific explanation. The only info about this matter on the Authority's website is: "Lockpoker.eu is not licensed by the LGA "The Lotteries and Gaming Authority (the 'Authority') would like to inform the public that the website http://lockpoker.eu/ has no connection whatsoever with the Authority and therefore any mention of the Authority or licence issued by the Authority on the mentioned website is false and misleading. "The Authority advises the public to play responsibly with companies licensed by jurisdictions that have sound remote gaming regulations." Lock Poker is a skin on the Merge Gaming Network to whom the Authority recently granted a category 4 operating license, which encompasses platform operators and software vendors "hosting and managing other remote gaming operators". Only Lock Poker has been singled out by the Authority, even though the network has other skins, such as Hero Poker, RPM Poker, OverBet, and Black Chip Poker, who now display the LGA logo in the footer of their websites. In anticipation of a statement from Lock Poker or Merge Gaming Network, there have been many speculations on the real reasons for this distancing.
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