Winnerzone.com launches. Now Play the most popular online games such as Chess and
Backgammon for real money.
WinnerZone.com announces the launch of the first online games site where players compete
against each other for real money. Players put up their own money and the winner takes the
pot, just as in the "real" world.
WinnerZone.com is the first site to offer one-on-one competition for real money in
games-of-skill.
Portland, Ore. Over 30 million people on the Internet play games such as Chess,
Backgammon, Checkers and others. WinnerZone.com has brought a new, and legal, dimension to
these games where players actually put up their own money and challenge others, with the
winner taking the pot.
WinnerZone is able to do this legally by offering only “games-of-skill”. No Blackjack or
Craps here. This is not a Casino and nothing like it exists in the bricks and mortar
world. WinnerZone is not located offshore, has no stake in the outcome of any game and has
no way of even potentially ripping off its customers, as many fear “traditional” online
casinos do.
WinnerZone ensures fair play in all games by a patent-pending business method that allows
the challenged player to reject the second in combined with a patent-pending rating system
that takes in to account not only who won and who lost, but the respective ratings of the
players and the amount wagered.
Games initially offered include Chess, Backgammon, Checkers, Go-Moku, and Reversi. Plans
for the future include Cribbage, Hearts and Spades as well as Video games. “Basically
anything that can be played mano-a-mano will be offered on our site” says the founder,
Kenneth Hartog.