Nitrogensports, the Largest Bitcoin Sportsbook, Adds Poker, Full Interview Inside

Gambling was one of the first obvious use cases of Bitcoin. It sits in a gray legality zone in a lot of jurisdictions, so there are obvious reasons for wanting to circumvent the traditional financial avenues and personal identity revealing credit card transactions.
There are tons of Bitcoin chance gambling sites out there, but surprisingly few sportbooks. Nitrogensports.eu is one of the few out there that not only covers a wide variety of sports but has various prop bets for each of them.
Today, they have announced that they are bringing poker to the site. The first step to bringing all of users gambling desires under one virtual roof. It is a strategy that has paid off for Vegas casinos: give sports junkies something to do while they wait for their next game to start without leaving your casino.
It is a lot easier to move from Nitrogensports to SatoshiDice and back again than it is to jump between Ceasars Palace and The Flamingo but the theory is the same: Give people everything they need, and they won’t go anywhere else.
They are kicking off their Poker events with a free 5BTC tournament starting Saturday 10pm GMT. But, starting today at 10pm GMT Poker will become a mainstay at the site.

This post was published at Coin Telegraph on 2014-09-18.