BTW, here's a link to a short
CP mag news item on party's profits post US ban and gives the following stats:
Poker proftis pre US ban: 2.7 Million a day
Poker profits post ban: 740K a day now up from 640K/day immediately after the ban
Hit to earnings: 2M/day
But here's a funny one in an excerpt near the end:
PartyGaming also introduced a new acronym to the world in its release: EMEA. EMEA represents PartyGaming’s future as its most important market. The folks living in EMEA (Europe, Middle East, and Africa), represent about 80 percent of the recent total new player sign-ups, and 67 percent of its total gross daily revenue across all of PartyGaming products. The new products include poker, bingo, backgammon, sports betting, and casino games, and the company is expanding into other languages, as well.
Surely this is a misprint and they mean asia and not africa. Even so, they're trying to act like they doing some brilliant market analysis and positioning when all they've done is identify the non-US market as their new market since they can't compete in the US any more. Brilliant.