Bwin.Party are closing markets mostly in Europe, the company will now focus on marketing to just 10 European countries, this will affect all of the products on offer: poker, casino, bets and bingo.

The changes were brought about because of the instability of unregulated online gaming in these Countries.

Bwin.Party will no longer accept any new players from the following countries: Argentina, Belarus, Poland, Ukraine, Romania, Slovenia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Cyprus, Greece, Hungary, Croatia, Macedonia, Serbia, Colombia, Armenia and Brazil.

Players who already have accounts can continue playing, this will only affect new player sign-ups.

Here are some of the Bwin.Party brands which will no longer be available: PartyPoker, PartyCasino, Partybets, PartyBingo, BwinPoker, BwinCasino and BwinSports.

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PartyGaming and Bwin have officially announced their long awaited merger, while rumors have been circulating since 2009. The proposed merger between the two companies is expected to take place in the beginning of 2011.

Together they will become the biggest online gaming company in the world offering Online Poker, Casino Games, Bingo Online and Sportsbets.

The merger make perfect sense with the recent announcement that poker may soon become legal in the United States. In 2009 the combined income of both companies was an estimated $892 million, news of the recent merger cause an 20% increase of the PartyGaming’s stock trading on London Stock Exchange.

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Tony G has just signed a deal with Party Poker and plans to help get them back to the #1 poker room in the world. TonyG has always supported PartyPoker as an affiliate and has also played most of their events, finishing in the top 3 places in the Party Poker Premier League in the last two years.

Tony G will represent Party Poker at the 2010 Aussie Millions in Melbourne, Australia this February alongside Australian Team Party Poker Pro Stewart Scott, who won last years Aussie Millions event he is also the first Australian to win the event.

Tony G plays poker online at PartyPoker you can find him playing with the user name TonyG. He plans to play cash games $2/$4 up to $250/$500 limits. Party Poker players can play with the pros online.

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Party Poker Revenue Drops in 2009, PartyGaming Plc have just released their interim results for the six months up to 30 June 2009.

http://www.partygaming.com/prty/en/mediacentre/pressreleases/financialnews/?ref=223

While PartyGaming still has a firm foot in the door in the online poker world currently number 4 globally in terms of player traffic the former giant has suffered a major blow ever since the UIGEA was passed into USA law where the LSE based company opted to take the safe road by blocking all USA customers their major source of revenue at the time.

The company has since adapted remarkably well without the US market by extending their services to include PartyCasino, PartyBets and PartyBingo.

PartyCasino has since evolved into becoming the single largest online casino operation worldwide and boasts profit figures that are just short of those generated from Party Poker.

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Rumors have it that PartyGaming is possibly interested in purchasing GigaMedia Limited in doing so the merger would substantially increase PartyGaming’s market share should the two well established online gaming firms merge into one large corporation, the traffic levels generated are expected to rival those of the current number two Full Tilt Poker in terms of busiest poker room online.

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