It’s Confirmed: Party and bwin Merging

Though it’s been pretty much common knowledge within various poker circles (tell your employees to not update their Facebook status with “Just got back from a business meeting in Stockholm” if you’re denying merger rumors in public – haha), the PartyGaming / bwin merger has finally been confirmed. According to the PartyGaming website: The proposed …

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The Week(s) That Was

The other day I ran across this video of WPT CEO, Steve Heller, being interviewed about some of the changes coming to the WPT. I guess I missed when they announced that Heller was taking over as CEO. I used to work for Steve when I was at Party so I dropped him a line …

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Update on bwin Loyalty Program

Earlier I wrote about a radical change to the bwin (and thus entire Ongame Network) loyalty program codenamed Essence. It’s not unusual that when I take a less than enthusiastic view on things I’m contacted by folks from the room to “explain” their side and hopefully get me to come around to their line of …

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The Carnival of Poker

While doing my July Time Machine post I ran across a bunch of posts I did about hosting a Carnival of Poker and it got me to thinking about hosting them again. The idea is rather simple yet people try to make it much more complicated because they think there’s a catch. There isn’t. Basically, …

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