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

Among the first professional players who lends his face as testimonial Full Tilt France stand out the names of David Benyamine and Pascal Perrault.

It ‘s so that one of the most successful online poker room in the world is entering a very promising market going to counter competition from PokerStars.fr and 25 other players such as Bwin, PartyGaming, Everest Poker, BetClick, iPoker and Microgaming.

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.

“This important agreement between Betfair and Ongame Network – is a statement of the group – the displacement of a substantial liquidity of the independent players poker room Betfair Poker Ongame Network. P5 Working through the platform of Ongame Network Betfair Poker offer users a better gaming environment, suitable for different financial resources of the players and with the liquidity necessary to give more value to the cash games and tournaments. “.

“This decision demonstrates our commitment to offer poker players an advanced product. Betfair Poker players will have access to a greater number of games at any time of day. Both companies are focused on improving ‘ gaming experience of users, we hope, therefore, to kick off soon to a long-term partnership of success and with Ongame Network, “said Daniel Svard, responsible for Betfair Poker.

“Betfair is the ideal company for a long-term partnership with Ongame Network, a respected brand in online gaming and evolved from a technical standpoint,” said Martin Lerby, Head of Ongame Network. “In a competitive industry like ours we welcome wholeheartedly the liquidity and expertise of the players in the poker Betfair will in our network.”