GIBRALTAR, April 12, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- http://www.888.com announced that Dragonfish - its independentbusiness-to-business division, has successfully concluded a major agreementwith bwin Italia. According to the terms of the contract, Dragonfish willprovide a full casino gaming platform for the popular bwin subsidiary.

The variety of online games being offered by bwin Italia will be greatlyenhanced by Dragonfish's casino. They will include a series of no-downloadflash games as well as downloadable games. 888casino is thrilled with thenews that a major player in bwin Italia has signed on with Dragonfish(http://www.dragonfishtech.com/games-technology/casino).

The challenge for Dragonfish was to develop a gaming platform that wasable to combine its variety of games, tools and existing design with bwin'ssetup. To this end a great deal of flexibility was called for and Dragonfishobliged. This deal now allows for a wide variety of classic casino games tobe offered to the Italian gaming market.

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