The re-branding is expected to be done and ready for the 2015 NFL season and will also offer baseball, basketball, golf and hockey to sports fans in selected regions.
PokerStars have been looking into the fantasy sports for quite sometime and decide to acquire an established brand instead of building a platform from scratch.
The fantasy sports industry is a growing market which is lead by DraftKings and Fan Duel, it would be interesting to see who takes the lead in the upcoming months.
The best part about Amaya Gaming is the amount of gaming licenses they have worldwide with more than 100 licenses including: UK and New Jersey.
Under new ownership PokerStars future in US is looking bright and will launch in New Jersey within the next few weeks.
Full Tilt Poker has dropped significantly in poker rankings since Amaya have started to focus on online casino games and new FullTilt live dealer casino.
Many PokerStars pros have been dropped from the roster the latest incident was with WSOP champ Joe Cada who terminated his contract because the site would no longer offer him a 100% rakeback deal.
This week thousands of PokerStars Affiliates were dropped due not bringing enough players or not actively promoting the site.
Amaya Gaming have agreed to purchase Rational Group which includes Full Tilt Poker and PokerStars for $4.9 billion.
This would mean the company would no longer have any ties with Isai Scheinberg. Scheinberg was the stumbling block that has been preventing PokerStars from entering the US regulated poker market.
Amaya Gaming have already been approved for a license to offer legal online poker in New Jersey, the company currently supplies gambling machines and accessories in Canada.
Amaya Gaming buying PokerStars will be the largest deal in the history of online gambling and offers positive outlook for the future of online poker worldwide. US poker players will no doubt rejoice at the news of PokerStars returning to the USA with new owners and a clean slate.
So far only a few land based casinos should be approved for the soft launch these include: Golden Nugget Casino, Caesars Interactive Entertainment, Borgata Casino, Tropicana Casino, Trump Plaza and Trump Taj Mahal.
The Atlantic City casinos will be using popular online casino & poker platforms as the backbone of their operations namely: BwinParty, 888, Betfair, Amaya, GameSys, Ultimate Gaming and Bally Technologies.
The poker sites are accepting player registrations and giving testers a limited amount of free poker cash to players before they launch.
