Breakout Gaming Raises 387BTC at Initial Coin Offering
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Difficulties in Launching
The launch of Breakout Gaming was announced on September 16. The project’s marketing partners are Huck Seed and Johnny Chan, both former champions of the World Series of Poker (WSOP). Professional poker players Ted Forrest, Todd Brunson, Jennifer Harman, and Vladimir Shchemelev have also pledged their support for Breakout Gaming.
The platform’s struggle to launch, however, is because of poor market timing, according to Billy Chung, the chief executive officer, and Gian Perroni, the marketing head. They say: “When we first launched our crowdsale, bitcoin was in a free fall, which cast a chill with potential purchasers—not only for our project but for the crypto community in general.” He said that one more fund raiser will be held, and if the ICO does not meet its goal of raising 1000 BTC, private financial sources will be used for the project.
Both Chung and Perroni are absolutely sure that the project will succeed. They say that the purpose of the gaming property is to “support the value of the coin.” The coin becomes successful if the gaming is successful, and the gaming will be made successful by a combination of trained personnel and excellent products.
When Breakout Gaming is finally launched, it will accept bitcoin, breakout coin, and fiat currencies.
Games
Breakout Gaming will make use of 7m BRO to provide real money as well as free play casino and online poker to its customers. In addition, there will be fantasy sports leagues and fantasy games for eSports such as Defense of the Ancients and League of Legends. Perroni opines that this portfolio will give Breakout Gaming an edge in the industry as “there’s no one who’s running the traditional poker and casino and also blending that in with fantasy e-sports.”
The 7m BRO will be given away to customers through guaranteed prize pools and giveaways over the course of two years, and Perroni hopes that this will attract new players to the platform.
Poker Players Support Bitcoin
Breakout Gaming has already announced that several poker players, who are already familiar with digital currencies such as bitcoin, are interested in the new project. Although all of them will be sponsored players on the platform, some of them have expressed interest in directly investing in the venture. Players such as Huck Seed know the new technology in depth.
Some poker players have already pointed out certain problems that the platform may have to face in future. Ted Forrest said: “Unless people are familiar and comfortable with how to buy cryptocurrency, they are finding the process of first buying bitcoin and then buying BRO coin somewhat cumbersome to the point that too many just give up in frustration.”
Perroni said that Breakout Gaming may apply for a license at Kahnawake in Canada as this would enable it to strategically position its properties in various target markets.
