Poker news tagged with 'merge'

In case you missed it: Party Poker completed the software merge with bwin in the end of 2012. As a part of the merge, Parter Poker has added $5 million to its monthly tournament guarantees ($15,000,000 in total), with a new tournament starting ever 15 minutes - 365 days a year! Besides that, Party Poker is giving away $10,000 in daily freerolls during January and not to forget our $200 freerolls every Sunday!

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In case you missed it: Party Poker had lots of good news to its customers last week. Not only did the site release an Android App (still only available in beta mode) available in many languages, but also it completed the poker software merge with bwin to overtake the second place from Full Tilt Poker in online traffic. 

As a part of the merge, Party Poker added an increadible $5 million ($15 million in total) to its monthly tournament guarantees, and now a new tournament starts every 15 minutes, 365 days a year!

Not a Party Poker member yet? Check out the $150 No Deposit Bonus and the $50 Gift Offer before creating your account!  

In December last year, one could read about merger speculations between bwin and PartyGaming in the british newspaper The Sunday Times. However, later on bwin denied that they were holding advanced talks with PartyGaming about a merge. Yesterday, almost 8 months later, PartyGaming announced that they have been negotiating with bwin for some time about a merge of the 2 companies.

Now, If everything goes according to plan and the shareholders agree to sell, PartyGaming will buy bwin for $1.76 billion and create the world's biggest publicly traded online gambling company.

Read more » PartyGaming, bwin merge to create the world's biggest online gaming company

In one of the latest issues of the british newspaper The Sunday Times, one can read that the 2 betting giants BWIN and PartyGaming have been talking about gathering up since last summer. Today, BWIN is worth about £1.2 billion and PartyGaming about £1 billion. In other words, if BWIN and Party Gaming merges, it would create a betting company worth over £2 billions and most probably be a huge threat to some of the biggest sportsbetting, casino and poker sites.

BWIN, PartyGaming dismiss the new merger speculations
After that The Sunday Times published the article, both sites have received lots of questions about the new merger speculations. BWIN denied that they are holding advanced talks with PartyGaming at the same time they admitted that they are always talking to other betting companies on the market for new deals. PartyGaming, on another hand said that they are looking for a major sports betting platform so that they can offer their customers a complete action filled site, however they didn't want to comment anything about the merger speculations.