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The e-commerce Online Gaming Regulation and Assurance (eCOGRA) organization celebrated its fifth year in existence recently. The U.K.-based organization oversees 126 accredited poker and casino websites to make sure they are operating on the up-and-up, and no funny business is going on. The company celebrated its five year birthday by giving three more internet gaming sites its “Safe and Fair” gambling seal. eCOGRA CEO Andrew Beveridge congratulated all of the the successful website owners on achieving accreditation, and urged Safe and Fair operators to maintain the highest standards, with player protection, business efficiency and responsible gambling always front-of-mind. “eCOGRA can look back on the last five years with some satisfaction,” he said. “It has seen our standards, inspection and monitoring systems and professional staff expand to embrace all the main Internet gambling platforms, from mobile, live dealer and bingo through sports to casino and poker online,” he said.

Along the way, our Fair Gaming Advocate has successfully mediated thousands of poker player issues, although these represent a miniscule percentage of the substantial volumes of business our accredited sites handle every day.” Us online poker players are a good and passionate bunch who enjoy our hobby, and we like to know that the internet sites we play on are doing everything correctly. So, I applaud groups like eCOGRA for doing its part to make the online poker community the best it can be.