On January 25th, 2012 the European Poker community will descend on the Aviation Club in Paris, France to hand out 10 European Poker Awards (EPA’s) to the biggest stars on the European poker scene. This will mark the 11th consecutive year that the European Poker Awards have been handed out, and it seems that the prestige and exposure of the awards ceremony has grownRead Full Article

After the old guard took their lumps on Black Friday, the road was basically paved in gold for the mega-casinos who have recently thrown their weight behind online poker legislation in the United States. Even before Black Friday we saw a number of Brick & Mortar casino giants partnering with online poker sites –Fertitta Interactive and Full Tilt Poker, Harrahs and 888 Poker, andRead Full Article

Share prices in UK gaming companies including 888 Holdings, Playtech and Bwin.Party have soared after the recent “Black Friday” illegal crackdown on US poker sites. Bwin.Party shares have shot up 30%, 888 Holdings (owned of 888 Poker) up 19% and Playtech 8%. The reasons for the share price growth of European poker sites are obvious really:  investors are hedging that high-value players, affiliates andRead Full Article

The recent merger of PartyPoker and bWin (the OnGame Poker Network) has created the combination of the #3 and #5 online poker rooms/networks, but the combined traffic of the two sites is still well behind both PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker according to pokerscout.com’s numbers. PokerScout lists Party Poker’s average player traffic at 3,550 and OnGame Poker’s daily traffic at 2,350 –for a totalRead Full Article

Overshadowed by online poker legislation passing a House Financial Services Committee vote yesterday was the news of a mega-merger in online gaming: Party Gaming and bWin –OnGame– announced they will be joining forces, forming the largest online gaming business in the world. Party Poker is the best known arm of Party Gaming’s operation, and while bWin is known for its sport-book operation the siteRead Full Article

Its been a long process that has been leaked into the gambling community via a number of sources but Bwin and PartyGaming have finally moved to confirm that they are holding talks regarding a possible merger deal that will see Bwin operate within the PartyGaming Network. The confirmation means that the rumors that have been in circulation for almost 6 months were correct andRead Full Article