Party + 888 Merger talks

[JAque]

The Times October 30, 2006

PartyGaming and 888 in talks
By David Robertson
PartyGaming and 888 Holdings, two of the largest online poker companies, have held preliminary talks about a possible merger, which would create a company worth about £1.6 billion.

The online betting sector has been hit by a crackdown by American authorities and PartyGaming and 888 have pulled out of the market in the United States. A merger would allow the companies to combine their remaining pool of online gamblers.



JAque

[Leader]

They deserve each other.

[KingMedicine]

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They deserve each other.

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that is perhaps the truest comment ive ever read on 2+2.
nh.

[iSTRONG]

If this goes through, party might become the fishiest place ever.

[PartyGirlUK]

Would this in any way allow americans to play on party again?

[TheOffice]

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Would this in any way allow americans to play on party again?

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If two negatives make a positive, that might just be the case.

[lefty rosen]

Hahaha. The good old days of Pacific was the most bizarre poker I have ever seen. I remember midnight games and getting my under the gun raise of 10/10 getting cold called by the entire table. Or playing short and having a 7/2 off auto quader quad to the river and getting runner runner deuces to crack my bullets.. [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/blush.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/shocked.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/cool.gif[/img]

[JAque]

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[daveymck]

I would guess that in the UK that 888 is the better known brand, although party isnt far behind, getting the 888 players onto the party software could be a good thing for us euros.

Party has still been pretty decent at the 1/2NL sh anyway.

[Soulman]

Getting the 888 players to Party would rule - we'd have some decent MTTs again, yay. Plus, the cash/SNG games would probably benefit as well.