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Inside Gaming: Caesars Interactive Entertainment in Italy, PartyPoker Underperforms, and More
This week Inside Gaming takes a look at Caesars Interactive Entertainment’s new alliance in the Italian poker market, PartyPoker’s poor performance, and a Foxwoods/Caesars Entertainment loss of a gaming license in Pennsylvania, essentially axing plans for a Philadelphia Horseshoe.
Microgame & WSOP form Exclusive Italian Alliance
Caesars Interactive Entertainment, Inc., (CIE, formerly Harrah’s Interactive Entertainment/HIE), is utilizing its World Series of Poker (WSOP) brand to enter the Italian market. In a recent announcement, CIE stated that they’ve entered a long-term agreement...
No surprise here, where a clearly arrogant casino license holder decided to butt heads with the government. It will be a good case history for other gaming operations to act less as if they owned the world and more like professional businesspeople competing on a level playing field & having to play by the rules rather than exceptions.
As for Caesars or Harrahs or whatever they will be named next year ... too late to inject their well-known professional expertise currently misbranded.
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12-26-2010 12:24
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