Online gambling company sponsors U.S. sports teams

January 9, 2014

The Philadelphia 76ers of the NBA and the New Jersey Devils of the NHL have become the first major U.S.-based professional teams to sign a sponsorship deal with an online gambling company, according to reports in the US media Wednesday. Party Poker, a subsidiary of the European online gambling group Bwin Party Digital Entertainment, is […]

Party Poker promises a supercharged Pokerfest

November 27, 2013

Party Poker has promised that the upcoming Pokerfest series – Pokerfest: Micro Turbo Edition – will present players with plenty of dynamic and rewarding action when it kicks off with 67 events over 15 days on December 1st. The series will feature Hold’em, Omaha, bounty tournaments, rebuys and more with buy-ins as low as $0.11 […]

Online poker firms gear up for New Jersey tournaments

November 26, 2013

With New Jersey online gambling now moving into full commercial operations, major companies are gearing up their promotional efforts in the new market, with the Party Poker and World Series of Poker brands especially prominent. The former is vigorously promoting www.njpartypoker.com, with Mike Sexton, a member of the Poker Hall of Fame and founding father […]

Full line-up for Party Poker Premier League 7 published

November 19, 2013

The full line-up has been confirmed for Partypoker’s Premier League 7 at the Playground Poker Club in Montreal. The week-long event is a 12 runner $125,000 buy-in WPT special that takes place ahead of the $3,850 buy-in Partypoker.net WPT Montreal scheduled for 29th – 5th December 2013. Due to the fluid nature of high stakes […]

More companies gear up for New Jersey online gambling

November 8, 2013

Two more new websites have gone up in preparation for the opening of the intrastate New Jersey online gambling market later this month. Ultimate Gaming, the parent group for Nevada’s first legal online poker site Ultimate Poker.com, has launched ucasino.com and is busy registering players for a software package of online casino and poker action […]

Partypoker international TV campaign

November 7, 2013

Berlin-based agency DDB Tribal has created an international TV campaign for Bwin’s Party Poker platform using the strapline “The Game Is Changing”. The TV ad shows city streets teeming with people from a varied demographic, converging at an intersection as playing cards rain down from above.  The ad is accompanied by a voice-over that talks […]