PartyGaming Absorbs Partners

Online poker giant PartyGaming will be assimilating two of its four partners in preperation for launching a new and improved service. Of its four partners two, Multipoker and IntertopsPoker, will be bought and absorbed, one, Coral Eurobet will be leaving the platform and the fourth, Empire Online, is now wondering what will happen.

PartyGaming agreed to purchase Multipoker for $14.5 million cash and the bulk of IntertopsPoker for around $4 million cash. Combined these two deals will add around 300,000 players to PartyGaming’s PartyPoker Web site…

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Sat, November 12th, 2005

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