Ultimate Bet and Absolute Poker Form New Cereus Network

July 28 - Tokwiro Enterprises, the company that owns Ultimate Bet and Absolute Poker sites, has decided to take drastic steps in order to combat rising controversy and has formed Cereus Poker Network in a bid to pool customer bases.

In recent months, both sites have seen a steady decline of customers due to charges of insider cheating scandals. Last week, the Kahnawake Gaming Commission was blasted by the Poker Players Alliance for not being transparent enough about the cheating cases, prompting the Commission to promise to take further action. It is expected that even more players will leave these two sites due to the recent negative publicity.

Tokwiro Enterprises believes that the formation of the Cereus Poker Network will stem somewhat the mass exodus of players expected from these sites. According to the Chief Operations Officer of Absolute Poker and Ultimate Bet, twelve months have gone into creating the network. While there are no immediate plans to merge the two sites into one, and they will each continue to operate under their individual brands, their customer bases will be pooled.

"Cereus not only delivers the best online poker experience," said Paul Leggett, "it enables our company to improve our operations and deliver significantly better value and service to customers. Our company's goal is to provide poker players with the ultimate online experience. The launch of Cereus is a major step for us in achieving our goal and we look forward to making many more exciting announcements very soon."

By forming Cereus Poker Network, Tokwiro Enterprises hopes to compete with the other huge networks in the industry, such as Poker Stars and Full Tilt. However, only time will tell whether Absolute Poker and Ultimate Bet are able to shake their already tarnished reputations and rise above their ever declining customer numbers.

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