ESPN will continue to broadcast the World Series of Poker until 2018 after signing a new agreement for another seven years with Harrah’s Entertainment.

ESPNESPN and Harrah’s Entertainment announced a new agreement that provides for the airing of the WSOP for a further seven years from 2011. Details of the agreement were not disclosed.

Thanks to this agreement, ESPN will be the official partner for the transmission of the World Series of Poker until 2018. ESPN should put on the air each year at least 32 hours of the WSOP, including the transmission of the Main Event bracelet and a few select events.

“The WSOP are pleased to be provided by ESPN for another nine years. This long-term agreement allows us to continue to get fans to the sport around the world through multiple platforms, “said the chairman of Harrah’s Interactive Entertainment and the World Series of Poker Commissioner Jeffrey Pollack.

The deal was announced when ESPN began airing the WSOP Main Event 2009. The estimates for the first 3 weeks of airing the edition of 2009 decreased by 8%, but proves ESPN confident. Things will get better, it is still too early to draw conclusions on the entire edition

WPT Enterprises announced that Party Gaming is the new owner of the trademark for $ 12.3 million. Will instead be paid to Gamynia Limited $ 1 Million damages for canceling the old contract.

After lengthy negotiations which concluded recently with the Gamynia Limited, World Poker Tour Enterprises announced that the brand will be purchased by Peerless Media Limited, a subsidiary of Party Gaming. This new treaty provides that the mark has acquired a value of $ 12.3 million plus a 5% dividend from the revenues generated by gaming.

Part of this large sum, about $ 1 million will be paid to Gamynia Limited following the termination of the contract. The contract will cover the WPTE’s television rights, intellectual property and ownership of the WPT brand, Professional Poker Tour (PPT) and other minor brands.

In a press release the founder CEO and President of WPT, Steve Lipscombm, commented: “The Board of PartyGaming has called the offer financially superior proposal and therefore very interesting because one of the pioneer online gaming market. This experience will allow the WPT brand to have the necessary expansion of vision. “

The sale still awaiting the go ahead by shareholders of WPTE. Some advances suggest that 39% of shareholders already expressed an investor approval for sale.

Did not reach the opinions or comments decrees notified by Belgium to the European Commission concerning games, and stand still until monday. The Commission has therefore approved the new rules last May, Brussels, Belgium notification decrees on arcades, gambling halls and gaming machines. Decrees that have received the green light, one concerning the rules of supervision and control in the arcades of class IV and places where bets are accepted.

The arcades of class IV must have a local network connected to the Commission on games, and a video surveillance system with image storage for four weeks. Other decrees establish then the list of gaming machines whose use is permitted on the premises of Class IV and game rules on the operation of gaming machines allowed in arcades Class II (Class E license).

Britain, an agreement between TWL (The Weather Lottery) and the second division club Middlesbrough FC. This is the fifth agreement that the company makes with a football club – is already in partnership with Coventry City, Derby County, Sheffield Wednesday and Leicester City – and follows a week the launch of the brand Betz.com. TWL gaming becomes the partner of Middlesbrough and will launch products and lottery game and online casino games with the colors of the club. “Middlesbrough is known for its ambitions,” said Lord Razzall, President of TWL. “It also has strong ties with the territory and sports fans. With this agreement we get a significant presence in the market.” Possible future agreements with other “major football club”

Another actor is set to bow out from the world of games. This time it touched the Riviera Holdings Corp., which already has a number of casinos in Las Vegas and Colorado. Filed for bankruptcy, the so-called Chapter11 bankruptcy laws in the U.S. Court of Las Vegas. The current recession has forced many companies in the field of games of ‘chance to pay a pledge, this time really losing the mail more valuable, the very existence. There are many companies that sector from 2008 to now have been forced into bankruptcy. In this case, the main holdings of Riviera Holdings are the eponymous hotel-casino in Las Vegas and Riviera Black Hawk, Colorado.

The debts have risen to the enormous figure of 248 million dollars, that you can not proceed with the ordinary. Since the procedure was presented Chapter11 (not triggering the transfer of assets), the public hopes that the property can continue to operate as usual during the whole procedure.

The main reason given for the difficult situation which requires the company to search for liquidity is closely linked to the recession that has robbed the casinos and gaming halls in hotels attached.

But every shadow creates a zone of rest for others. In fact over the last two years there has been a boom in online gaming. Have multiplied the sites that let you gamble with many of the “hobbies” that were once only in theaters. It is not like being around a green table with lots of blacks and sunglasses dealer with the crisis but learns to adapt.