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Irish Open 2010 Vol. 7, No. 3 Card Player Magazine

Irish Open 2010 Vol. 7, No. 3 Card Player Magazine

From Threat to Opportunity: Online Poker and the Media

by Brendan Murray

With the recent PartyGaming takeover of the World Poker Tour brand and comments from the company’s CEO Jim Ryan about the threat to online poker from “media” companies, a subtle but significant paradigm shift appears to be afoot as threat is turned to opportunity. PartyGaming, as the parent company to PartyPoker — once the world’s...