Dynasty Gaming Licenses Mahjong Mania to Power Mahjongclub.com

MONTREAL -- Dynasty Gaming today announced that its Mahjong Mania gaming software is soon to be utilized to power a new consumer-facing Mahjong site (mahjongclub.com) that will specifically target
Mahjong (the game of four winds) is more popular than poker worldwide.  players across Asia. Mahjongclub.com will be owned and managed by Adriaan Brink, acknowledged as a pioneer in online gaming and formerly president of Mahjong Systems Limited.

"I believe Mahjong is about to explode, becoming the new poker," said Brink. "With the online gaming industry looking to gain access to Asia, Mahjong is increasingly looked upon as a necessary component of every company's product offering. I see a time, in the very near future, when Mahjong is as commonplace at online casinos or poker rooms as blackjack is today." As the largest online operator of the game, mahjongclub.com will position itself as the Party Poker of the Asian world.

Albert Barbusci, chief executive of Dynasty Gaming, stated, "The focus of Adriaan's initiative is complementary to our strategy for developing the China online gaming market. As we have previously announced, Dynasty has entered into various marketing and distribution agreements with leading Chinese partners including Junnet, Sohu, Sun Media, Betex and Sino Strategic International. As well, we have expanded our product offering through a cross-licensing agreement with Las Vegas From Home.com Entertainment Inc. that provides us with a number of Asian poker-style games. By providing Adriaan with our Mahjong Mania software for his mahjongclub.com site, we are taking yet another step to realize the enormous potential of the China market."

Mahjong is regarded as a national sport in China but it is also hugely popular across the globe. In traditional Mahjong, four players play a game similar to Rummy, but with tiles instead of cards. "The basic Mahjong tile set consists of 136 tiles in 10 suits, so it is somewhat more complex and more interesting than Rummy," said Brink. "Players look beyond simply making a hand, concentrating on the value of the hand they create. With rich pickings for the player with a difficult hand to produce, the game has a depth and element of psychology that makes it much more similar to poker than rummy in terms of the playing environment. Add to that the huge pots that are played for over kitchen tables all across Asia and you have a game with enormous potential that has yet to be tapped on the Internet."