A few words for you give the latest details regarding the second largest online poker room: bwin.party. As a reminder, it is the alliance of Bwin and PartyGaming (known as PartyPoker).
Precisely speaking of this merger, the merger bases of players were already started, but today, it has a better idea of the exact dates. Bwin.com and PartyPoker.com players should be on the same tables in June. For .fr, it will be the last quarter of 2012.
Several major changes are underway at Bwin.Party.The team is currently working on the development of a mobile application from their poker room online. Bwin already possessed such technology. Jim Ryan says:
"We hope to win in competitiveness this year thanks to economies of scale and increased flexibility that will result from the integration and migration of our main products on a single platform." While integration projects are completed, we focus more resources to innovation, which included the development of a mobile gaming platform".
He continued for another upcoming new from Bwin.Party, i.e. the quick tables -style Zoom Poker at PokerStars and Rush Poker at Full Tilt Poker:
"I can tell you that Rush Poker is under development. It is coming soon. No specific date has been advanced for the launch of this product, which has yet to find a name".
This is obviously a good news for all because we know that PokerStars has recently helped frothing its traffic since the appearance of the Zoom tables.
New plan yet for Bwin.Party: an alliance with Google to social poker.Jim Ryan says:
"We think that it is only a matter of time before the game real money and social gaming don't meet. This represents a major opportunity for bwin.party and we already have a large number of ongoing initiatives in this area".
In another order of ideas, March 30, "grujo_grujo" won $ 90,000 on tables bad beat jackpot of Bwin.Party after having lost with his square of jacks.It will be the last to win a bad beat jackpot on Party since its tables will be removed. According to the leaders of the company, tables with a lower rake would be more attractive to the players as tables bad beat jackpot. This decision is somewhat dubious as we, but we imagine than the pros and cons have long been studied with this decision.
In closing, please note that Bwin.Party has already passed a partnership with MGM Resorts and Boyd Gaming in the event of a legalization of poker online in the United States. In this regard, the game room has already filed an application for licence in March last according to the Nevada gaming Commission. If online poker became legal in the United States, Bwin.Party will obviously be in the first halls of games on his licence.
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