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The Grosvenor UK Poker Tour struggled to compete in the live poker market, which resulted in cutting back stops on both the main tour and the Summer Series.
PartyGaming and bwin shareholders vote through all resolutions approving the merger of the two companies, which would become known under one name, bwin.party digital entertainment plc.
Online gambling site 888.com bought web domain Poker.com.au for US$100,000. The price was lower than expected due to restrictive laws on advertising gambling in Australia.
Canadian domain, Poker.ca, became the most valuable .ca domain on the Internet when it sold for more than $400,000.
In January it was rumoured that the site was anonymously bought by a well-known poker player who already owns a large poker affiliate.
bwin announced the launch of the first real money iPhone application for poker, available at the time only to Apple users in the UK and Austria. While Microgaming announced it would launch a real money mobile poker app on the rival Android platform later in the year.
Federated Sports and Gaming partnered with the Palms Casino Resort to introduce a new professional poker league. Annie Duke was announced as the commissioner of said league, and was set to work alongside Jeffrey Pollack, former President and Commissioner of the World Series of Poker, and Michael Brodsky, David Goldberg and Jeffrey Grosman.
The league, which would later become known as the Epic Poker League, was open only to the top 200 players in the world, determined by a ranking system.
PokerStars officially confirmed one of the poker world’s worst-kept secrets, high-stakes superstar “Isildur1” and 20-year-old Swede Viktor Blom were one and the same. The first few weeks of being a member of Team PokerStars Pro saw Blom struggle to gain any consistency in online profit.
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