Ceremony 2016 Global Gaming Awards (GGA) held in Las Vegas, and the company 888 has received one of the main prizes.

What is the GGA? This award, which the Gambling Insider publication in partnership with the American Gaming Association, Reed Exhibitions and G2E Vegas awards nominees to “understand and appreciate their contribution to the development and innovation, not only in the online industry, but in the off-line sector.”

Returning to our online reservations, we note that the “eight” have received the most prestigious award “Operator of the Year”, although opponents have had all the best.

New campaigns have played a role

Needless to say that this victory 888 is the first in their history, and few expected that among the opponents there will be no more “lucky” companies.

Judge for yourself on the list below:

• 888Holdings – 888poker.com
• Amaya – PokerStars
• Bet365 Group
• Betclick Everest Group
• Betway
• DraftKings
• FanDuel
• GVC Holdings
• Paddy Power Betfair
• Unibet

Any of these companies is worthy of victory, which had until then regularly went towards the PokerStars, which is also not surprising.

But this time, the jury took into account the rate of 888 new campaign to attract users and programs that allow them to throw a real challenge to the leader of online poker as PokerStars.

Chief Editor of Gambling Insider Alex Hammond, in his speech said:

“Congratulations to the 888 with their first victory in the Global Gaming Award, as the best in the world of online operators, who decided to fight the giant industry – PokerStars, bringing much new to the online poker industry in the last 12 months, both in the US and in Europe.”

The newly appointed head of the “eights” Itai Freiberger, commented on the news:

“We are very pleased that we were able to get such a valuable prize, working on this to the limit saturated market of online poker. We are very pleased that our new programs and to attract new players to the measures were duly appreciated. ”

About Global Gaming Awards

Recall that Global Gaming Awards – an annual ceremony during the defined best companies in many respects, and their fate administers the jury panel of 60 senior executives of the very companies.

This year there were 12 nominations, the list of winners are listed below:

Details of the ceremony can be found on globalgamingawards.com