Internet Poker Proves Value Once Again
Thanks to the internet and television, poker exploded exterior its US homeland in 2005, and Party Gaming leader director Richard Segal sees technology boosting that boom additional in 2006. Internet poker took a firm hold in 2005, sparking three large London stock market flotation's, showing revenues of around $2 billion and launching games and books that are at the moment topping Christmas lists about Europe.
The company is assessing acquisitions and everything from mobile phones to interactive television to access more players. "The beauty of it all is that we've invented nothing new," Mr. Segal said at Party Gaming's London headquarters. After a high-profile £4.6 billion flotation in June, the owner of Party Poker and Starluck Casino saying its market worth soar to over £7 billion.
