| ABOUT DANUBE CASINO
INTERACTIVE GAMING NEWS:
Romania's First Online Casino
"The site is the creation of Nicolae Sfetcu, the maverick owner of Multimedia SRL and this year's winner of the prestigious Business Initiative Directions, WQC International Star Award (Gold Category Paris 2003), who was predestined to become the owner of an Internet casino.
Sfetcu developed an affinity for poker and bridge around 20 years ago as a student and became a master at both games. I have never considered that poker, as well as bridge, are games, because in games you need luck," he explained. "For bridge or poker, the luck plays a secondary role."
He became one of the first presidents of a bridge club in Romania. After graduating from college, he specialized in Internet business services.
"Helped by my previous experience in Internet marketing, and being advantaged by the fact that I know very well the psychology of the gamblers, I had some successful marketing campaign for online casinos and affiliates which wanted to promote their own sponsored links through their Web sites or advertisements in my own network," Sfetcu said.
That network is the Teleactivities Network, which Sfetcu says is one of the most complex Romanian integrated network of Internet resources for advertising and dissemination of information. It includes thousands of Web sites, forums, directories, mailing lists, newsletters, e-zines, Web rings and so on.
Within that network was the gambling portal Online-casino.ro, Sfetcu's
first venture in the gambling space. A customer suggested that he try operating
an online casino, and he went on from there to launch Danube Casino."
Novamedia European Gaming & Lottery Files:
"Romania", by Rob
van der Gaast
Internet Casino operator -
Danube Casino
(www.danubecasino.com)
Nicolae Sfetcu started some years ago with
its own business on Internet, first as a
freelancer specialized in web design, translation
and Internet marketing and, beginning
with last year, he set up his own
company, Multimedia SRL. The internet
maverick and this year’s award winner of
the prestigious ‘Business Initiative Directions,
WQC International Star Award, Gold
Category Paris 2003’ tells his story in how
he started his internet imperium and his
internet casino www.danubecasino.com:
“The beginning of the history of the Danube
Casino can be located long time ago, and it
is quite interesting, I think. When I was a
student, about twenty years ago, I started to
like two games: poker, and bridge. They
were very pleasant days those days. During
those years I became one of the best specialists
in poker and bridge; I have never
considered that poker, as well as bridge, are
games, because in games you need luck, but
for bridge or poker the luck plays a secondary
role. I can write many books about the
rituals of the nights spent playing these
games, with many spectators behind us and
that ended every time with a party organized
by the winner. It was then when I
started not to sleep the nights, and I kept
this habit till our days, even if, for different
reasons.”
“In those years I became one of the first
presidents of a bridge club in Romania, but
after I graduated from college I finished
playing games, too.”
“I specialized in Internet business services.
So, helped by my previous experience
in Internet marketing, and being advantaged
by the fact that I know very well the
psychology of the gamblers, I had some
successful marketing campaign for online
casinos and affiliates that want to promote
their own sponsored links through
their websites or advertisements in my
own network. I have to tell you that I
developed, in time, one of the most complex
Romanian integrated network of
Internet resources for advertising and
dissemination of information, named
Teleactivities Network, that includes
thousands of websites, web forums,
directories and links, mailing lists and
newsletters, e-zines, webrings, a.s.o. After
such a marketing campaign, it was one of
my customer that gave me the idea to
imply more directly in the online gambling
worlds. I already had my own gambling
portal, www.online-casinos.ro. So I
thought of starting my own online casino
Danube Casino. Why this name? Because
all my life I enjoyed the neighborhood of
Danube and its beautiful landscapes. You
can consider this name as an act of fealty
for this river (I dedicated it a whole
section in my website for the county
where I live, Mehedinti”.
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