{"id":1654,"date":"2009-11-09T08:06:08","date_gmt":"2009-11-09T13:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/?p=1654"},"modified":"2021-06-23T10:49:12","modified_gmt":"2021-06-23T10:49:12","slug":"its-finally-official-the-wpt-joins-the-partygaming-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/its-finally-official-the-wpt-joins-the-partygaming-family.html","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s finally official, the WPT joins the PartyGaming Family"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1658 aligncenter\" title=\"world-poker-tour\" src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/world-poker-tour1.jpg\" alt=\"world-poker-tour\" width=\"596\" height=\"287\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/world-poker-tour1.jpg 596w, https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/world-poker-tour1-300x144.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 596px) 100vw, 596px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As many of you are aware PartyGaming has been in takeover discussions with the WPTE for a few months now, well today we can announce that the deal is now official.<\/p>\n<p>We are really excited to be cementing our long standing relationship with the WPT, after all it was thanks our sponsorship of WPT shows that partypoker.com was catapulted to the heady heights of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\">no.1 poker site in the world<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Presented by partypoker ambassador Mike Sexton and Vince Van Patten the World Poker Tour helped to detonate poker\u2019s explosion in popularity.\u00a0 The show pioneered innovations like the revolutionary \u2018hole cam\u2019 \u2013 allowing viewers to see player\u2019s cards, turning televised poker into a pulse-raising sport. Revolutionary visual graphics meant fans could follow from a barstool, further cementing poker as a national pastime.<\/p>\n<p>Today the WPT is also home to a hugely successful subscription based poker site <a href=\"http:\/\/www.clubwpt.com\">www.clubwpt.com<\/a> alongside <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldpokertour.com\">www.worldpokertour.com<\/a> which hosts over 150 hours of poker videos featuring some of the most momentous tournaments in poker history.\u00a0 The WPT TV shows made stars of the likes of Gus Hansen, Daniel Negraneau and Dave \u2018Devilfish\u2019 Ulliott and more recently Yevgeniy Timoshenko, the 21 year old American who won $2,149,960 at this year\u2019s WPT World Championship.<\/p>\n<p>The partnership offers many exciting opportunities for PartyGaming and the WPT that may even see www.partypoker.com back in the US in some form in the near future.\u00a0 We will share more news with you on the blog as soon as the details are confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>The acquisition of WPTE arrives on the back of our recent acquisition of Cashcade, parent company of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxybingo.com\">www.foxybingo.com<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.getminted.com\">www.getminted.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>These are exciting times at partypoker.com so why not join the action?\u00a0 Sign up for the Aussie Millions satellite tournaments and maybe you could be poker\u2019s next TV superstar.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As many of you are aware PartyGaming has been in takeover discussions with the WPTE for a few months now, well today we can announce that the deal is now official. We are really excited to be cementing our long standing relationship with the WPT, after all it was thanks our sponsorship of WPT shows<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/its-finally-official-the-wpt-joins-the-partygaming-family.html\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":1658,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2182,300],"tags":[74],"yst_prominent_words":[17800,17797,6242,17795,4573,2582,17091,17798,6141,14463,2624,2648,17799,4345,3003,17796],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1654"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1654"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135775,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1654\/revisions\/135775"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1654"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=1654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}